The Volkswagen GTI Roadster concept is going to have its North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show next week. First seen at the Wörthersee festival in Austria in May, the GTI Roadster demonstrates the bandwidth of the MQB architecture that underpins the seventh-generation Golf.
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The GTI Roadster was originally created as a purely electronic CGI entity for the Gran Turismo 6 video game. The two-seat convertible is powered by a 3.0-liter V6 twin-turbocharged TSI engine that produces 503 horsepower and 413 pound-feet of torque. The power of the TSI engine is transferred to the ground via a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission and the 4MOTION all-wheel-drive system.
The concept zooms from 0 to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds and with a top speed of 192 mph.
Source: Volkswagen
