Every July, cars come from all over Europe to MIVW - short for Men in Volkswagen. It's probably Holland's biggest VAG event of the year. For the 2009 iteration, the organizers rented out a huge airport hanger - a pretty cool location! This worked out quite well as the Dutch weather was pretty poor this weekend so we got to check out these cars from the comfort of the great indoors.
So in my past two car features, I saw some people were complaining that they are missing the 'Speed' part on Speedhunters. So let's start out this story with some power modded cars.
...A mk2 rally with engine swap, V6 and smoothed engine bay! Nice.
A Golf mk3 with mk4 front and 6cyl engine swap!
Yellow engine bay we like!
Here's a cool mk2 with rally headlights and BBS CH wheels.. Also check out the white cup seats!
Can U see all the bling under the hood?
You don't see Corrados very often in Europe anymore, this one here had a complete rebuild. The owner obviously has a thing for chrome.
Who said mk5 5-doors couldn't be cool?
Air ride = check! fat wheels = check! engine swap = check!
'Werkverkeer' means work traffic; I bet this isn't his car to go to work with.
Jetta on Ronal Turbo wheels, lovely!
Another mk2 with an engine swap.... this one has perfect wheel fitment and stance.
Spotted this cutie polishing rims! And she did a pretty nice job :-)
A primer grey mk5, pretty unique over here...
The airport edition of MIVW gave some owners inspiration...
Same here!
Straight from a postcard...
A dropped Passat wagon on BBS wheels, it can't get any sweeter!
The mk2 Rallye is always been a rare car, but here you get 2 of them.
White A4 wagon with painted BBS wheels, nice combination. As you can see stance and wheel fitment has been religion in continental Europe for some time now.
ttys,
- Kevin Raekelboom