Here's how to turn your Golf/Rabbit/GTI/Jetta/Scirocco into a hairy performer. These are the optimum engine, transmission, chassis, and bodywork combinations for total performance, reliability, and durability.

Greg Raven explains in exhaustive detail the best methods for making your "hot hatch" even hotter. Whatever your budget, whether preparing for read or track, or just buying new tires, you need this book. Thirteen chapters, plus other data and appendices, and nearly 450 photos explain everythnig from low-buck bolt-ons to the ultimate turbocharged, nitrous-burning 16-valve, twin-engined rocket. Learn about wheel and tire improvement, up-to-the-minute autocross or showroom stock suspension and brake modification, custom add-on bodywork and paint -- where to buy it, how to install it, and what to expect.

Quite simply, this book will be the best value for the money you can spend on your car.