Volkswagen Golf 4 wagon from Denmark packs nearly 1,100 PS

The VW Golf 4 Variant came out two decades ago and was envisioned as a pure family haulers, and family haulers never got high-performance editions back in that era – much unlike today. Anyway, a team of tuners from Denmark thought it would be good to see what the fourth-gen Golf wagon was truly capable of with extreme tuning.

The core of the project is a single Garrett G42-1450 turbocharger driving the stock six-cylinder block. Virtually nothing else is stock: the displacement has been expanded to 3.3 liters, forged pistons and connecting rods replaced OEM ones, and the camshaft was swapped out for a much sturdier one. After these and countless other modifications, the output skyrocketed to belief-defying 1,095 PS (1,080 hp / 805 kW).

Interestingly enough, the drivetrain was left partly stock, bar the addition of a diff lock and a new five-speed manual gearbox. It looks like the old Golf was a dormant beast if it took so well to such an extreme tune-up.

Elsewhere, the car rides lower than stock on forged OZ Racing rims, benefits from a track-ready brake system and has a revised interior.