Someone Made A Diesel VW Golf Into A W12-650 Concept Replica

Remember the VW Golf W12-650 concept? Cooked up for the 2007 Worthersee Treffen, it was a glorious mish-mash of parts from across the VW Group. The mad recipe included a mid-mounted, 641bhp bi-turbo W12 borrowed from the Bentley Continental GT, the rear axle from a Lamborghini and the front brakes from an Audi RS4 - all bundled together in a heavily modified Golf platform.

The classifieds spot you see here is… not a W12-650. But if you squint, it does sort of look like one - we have wide arches, a radically altered rear bumper and massive side air intakes. Which feed nothing.

The engine’s still very much in the front, and it’s - there’s no easy way to say this - a 1.9-litre TDI with all of 103bhp to its name when it left the factory. This one apparently makes 170bhp, presumably via a hefty remap, but even so - performance will be rather a long way off the real thing.

Despite having some pretty radical work done to the body, the eBay advert (note: the listing has since ended) for this car is lacking any real detail. We don’t know exactly what’s been done to it other than what we can see - it merely states that the car has “loads off [sic] mods.” Helpful.

We are told it has a year’s MOT though, and that it has 125,000 miles on the clock.

The bodywork alone couldn’t have been a cheap job, and that’s reflected in the price - it’ll set you back £4200. We’re thinking it might be hard to find a buyer willing to stump that up…

Via Project Cars UK