I can tell you that having sat in an Mk8.5 for just a short time, I've never been more excited to test a car in my whole life ...

As a newly licensed driver in Nottingham, England, Chris Skelton had his heart set on one car. It was 1988, he was 17, and what he really wanted to be driving was a Volkswagen Mk2 Golf GTI hot hatch.

A dedicated VW enthusiast tracked down and drove 2,300 miles to buy the very last manual Golf GTI ever built. Sadly, it's nothing special.