Today, another thoroughly exceptional car I saw at last year’s Festival of the Unexceptional. A welcome visitor from the Netherlands, this is a Golf Mk2 Country, which features the ‘Syncro’ all-wheel drive system. The car was co-developed with Steyr-Daimler-Puch (also associated with the Mercedes G-Wagen and Fiat Panda 4x4), and features such as the bull bars and raised suspension are standard factory fit, not after-market additions.
I had a Golf Synchro when first released ... it didn't have any of those rather butch appendages!
No "h" !!
Mine had a really irritating carburettor problem in that in cold weather the idling revs went up and up and up to a scream. Dealer couldn't sort it because it never got cold enough in a garage to reproduce the fault. Made driving in icy weather an absolute nightmare. Didn't keep it more than two winters.
(It also had a propshaft problem connecting back to the rear diff. Really, sadly, it was a bit of a disaster was that car.)
@davidwilkins This is amazing! I love it!
And maybe you can help me: once, many many years ago, I saw an old Peugeot 504 in off-road mode... It seemed like a small production lot, not really order-made customization.
Do you have any idea of what that could have been?
@davidwilkins the devil is in the detail. The bull bars are angled backwards to ensure that in the event of hitting a pedestrian they will be thrown upwards increasing their chances of survival.
Vertical fronts is what makes US SUVs people killers.
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