welcome to the top gear test track we're going to take a look at a bunch of cars that didn't quite make it into the main show and we're going to pit them head to head to see which one puts down the fastest snap we're talking super suvs hot hatches sports cars old versus new fast estates retro electrics nothing's off limits first i give them a quick test drive then our resident racing driver will set their definitive lap times once and for all today is battle of the golf gtis so let's see which one is going to win out of wolfsburg's finest [Music] like many volkswagens of this age this one has been subtly modified and it's got 232 brake horsepower and i'm guessing somewhere around the original foot pounds at all which is just over 200.
[Music] this is an early 2000s calm and it is still great fun to drive with such a crisp driving experience i mean volkswagen really know what they're doing with a hot hatch it's got plenty of grip in all the right places and you're just sailing around how does that on a jolly i think [Music] it's going to be very interesting to pair up the mark 5 with the mark ii i think the mark 5 might have it in the corners because the handling is still so good in these cars let's see how they fight it out on track [Music] this car used to be an eight valve gti but let me tell you guys not anymore now this thing here has been modified up to its eyeballs it's a 3.2 audi tt engine with a vr6 corrado box and a quad limited slip diff this is about as modified as they get but my goodness it is great fun [Music] [Applause] [Music] it feels ridiculously quick i think in the straight line this is going to have a huge advantage over the mark 5 golf for goodness sake these cars are not supposed to go this fast they're nearly 30 years old [Music] [Applause] [Music] after driving both the cars i know where my heart lies that little mark 2 gti with the v6 engine is just so much fun and sounds amazing but i honestly think even though it's got more horsepower sitting at 270 this is just going to clinch it with the dsg gearbox it's so smooth and i just think it's able to put the traction down a little bit better the track conditions today are nice and dry so it really is going to come down to whether these cars can put the power down so i think looking at the leaderboard here there's a nice big gap between the mark v dti and the gti mark vii i'm going to hazard a guess and say that the mark 5 unfortunately just felt that little bit faster so the mark ii is coming in just below but somewhere between the 133 and the 139 now all we need is a driver luckily i know a guy just for the job three two one [Music] so [Music] [Music] three two one [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] mmm [Music] my [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this really is battle of the gti today after seeing them go around the track i've got my eye in on which one i think is going to be faster but you never know until you get the results so let's find out okay wow the mark 5 has done way more than i thought it would do that's coming in first place with a 1 31 that's a really good time for that car and unfortunately as we thought the mark ii golf a little bit slower with a 1 34.4 this actually means that the mark 5 has done far better than i thought it would i obviously didn't give it enough credit so it's coming in ahead of the mark iv golf and our little mark ii golf was exactly where i thought it might be ahead of the mark 7 and between the mark 5.
well there you have it guys the mark 5 beat the little mark ii it's not the result that i wanted but you never know what's going to happen out here on the top gear test track make sure you join us next time for sticks garage where we've got plenty more cars coming we'll see you there.