GLOBAL HYPERCOLOUR

First impressions count for a lot,true in all walks of life. Strutting into a room in a crisply tailored suit and owning the floor with steely-eyed charisma and affable charm will permanently file you in everybody’s minds as a good egg, whereas a limp and sweaty handshake or an inadvertent mispronunciation of your own name will forever label you as the forgettable type. We as a species like to think we’re pretty on-point with forming accurate spur-of-the-moment character analyses, although this isn’t always the case. Your first impression of this particular Mk4 Golf might be that, yes, this is the zenith of where the SoCal scene is right now; glinting in the brilliant sunlight, this bagged R32 rocks a slick Stateside vibe that could only have come from the anti-Detroit import culture of hot rod-obsessed California – the disco paintwork, the wheels, the stance, it’s pure aftermarket Americana.