“Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.” So said Terry Pratchett in The Last Continent, and he makes an interesting point. The location of things across the globe is secondary to the scientific constants that anchor them in reality, and there’s an inarguably scientific approach to certain modifying styles within the water-cooled VW scene: the Euro look, for example… take an early Golf or Polo, shove in a hot valver, run it very low on BBS splits with lo-pros, keep it smooth and simple, and paint it in some lurid or pastel shade. Voila, you’re rocking the Euro look, just like a 1990s wideboy.
OK, there’s a formula, but don’t fall into the trap of thinking these cars are strictly formulaic; each one has its own quirks, complexities, nuances, and most of all, personality. And such cars aren’t always found in Europe. The one we’re looking at here is out there in
