11/11/2011 - VWG Carpark Meet

Christina had organised a carpark meet for the VWG guys as it had been a few months since the last meet at Homebush. This time, the venue was at the Entertainment Quarter carparks at Moore Park. In addition to this, there was word that this meet would be a club feature in February's issue of Fast Fours & Rotaries next year so everyone was told to wash their cars if they wanted the opportunity for it to be photographed. I washed mine earlier today and had brought along a few detailing items just in case it rained or drizzled but neither happened which was good. It turned out to be a very nice day actually. The meet was scheduled at 7:00pm.

I'll let the pictures do the talking. Photographs courtesy of Ed, Josh and Kwong.

VWG meet at the Entertainment Quarter top level carpark.

Volkswagen teamed up with Adidas to showcase a special limited edition Golf GTI Adidas.
Unique features include 18 inch Serron alloy wheels (named after a Finnish race course), Bi-xenon headlights,
Adidas-badged B-pillars and Golf R LED rear tail lights. Limited edition of 500 in Australia. In every other way though, it's exactly the same as a regular GTI.

Tendy's Scirocco R. It's sporting its new carbon fibre rear diffuser by Garage Vary, a JDM company.

He is another wheel whore. Volk Racing G12's which Ross had on his Black Passat R36 at the Homebush meet & greet. Click here.

It may look factory but this car also has a host of goodies, such as an ECU tune, intercooler, high pressure fuel pump, DSG tune all from HPA/HGP,
VW Racing intake, ARQRAY custom titanium catback exhaust, KW V3 coilovers and huge RS6 8 piston BBK's amongst other things.

Pierre's Audi 8P S3. Recently back from his overseas trip. Always good seeing him and his S3.
Subtle and refined. Love this car.

The 19" BBS CK wheels in anthracite set his car off perfectly. And the red BBS centre caps completes the look.
He is looking at a new set of wheels though. Should be interesting!

MKIV Golf R32. What's special about this is that it was supercharged.

Candy White MKVI Golf GTI, Black Magic Pearl MKV Golf GTI Pirelli, Tornado Red MKVI Golf R.

Arranging the cars for the photoshoot. White, Black, Red.

Justin's MKV GTI which is currently for sale. A fine example of JDM mods executed properly on a German car.

Chris' Tornado Red Golf R. This is a colour which is available in Europe but was not available in the Australian brochure when the Golf R was launched here.
He somehow persuaded the salesperson to get this in as a special order and waited 9.5 months. It took this long due to getting the compliance for this car.
Thus, this car in this colour is as rare as hens teeth. Only three known examples in Australia. Looks better in the flesh!

Dev's MKIII Golf VR6 is always a welcome sight amongst the sea of new school Golf GTI's and R's.
Not bad for a 19 year old green P plater.

Ray's MKV R32 sporting 19" ADV7.1 wheels. This is the only other R32 which has the Capristo exhaust apart from Jose and Adam.
Needless to say, it sounds great.

The MY11.5 MKVI Golf GTI's now come with DRL's integrated in the headlights if you option the Bi-Xenons.

Michael's "beasty" Golf R. He plans to enter this car in the World Time Attack Challenge (WTAC) next year. Big things on the horizon!

Stock as a rock MKVI Golf GTI with factory optioned 18" Denver wheels.

Tech guru and all round good guy Miles' MKV GTI. Great example of simple, subtle mods which can transform it into something different without being over the top.

Group shot.

Another one.

Lora's Polo GTI being flanked by two MKIV R32's. Don't let the cute look and small stature of the Polo fool you.
It packs a punch with a plethora of quality mods along with a GIAC ECU reflash, pushing close to 150kw at the front wheels,
which will be super fun and super quick in a car that weighs approximately 1100kgs.

GTI : Function over form.
R32 : Form over function.
Yin Yang.

A fantastic photo of Dave's MKV R32 and Pierre's S3.

I love this shot. Tendy's Scirocco R facing off against my Golf R.

The meet was great as always. Very chill, always fun catching up with the regulars and of course, putting the faces to the forum names by meeting the newcomers. Big props to Christina for organising.

The Fast Fours & Rotaries feature should be in the February issue next year, hitting newsagents australia wide. There were 2 or 3 photographers from the magazine who also took photos at the meet. Curious to read the article and see the photos that were taken.