There was an impressive turn-out for the GTI Spring Festival, the first big VW UK event of 2009 - and also my first posting for Speedhunters. Even the British weather (which threw hail down the day before) smiled on us, with the rain holding off and the odd ray of sun burning through the clouds. Warmer than Japan, for sure... Santa Pod was crammed with

VW website 'Edition 38' held their annual Show and Shine event last weekend for VW group owners, and it was up to the usual high standards associated with the site. There were some great examples of clean almost stock looking cars and the show highlighted that many 'Dubbers' have taken this route with older VW's. I had a look at

The 21st GTi International took place last weekend in central England. As usual, the weather wasn't great, but we have a great gallery of photos, thanks to Mark Forbes (Zboyd!), one of the admins' of SEATCupra.net. Its no surprise to hear that the Golf GTi is the most popular car at the event, such as this 24 year old stock Mk1 with period Pirelli