I i I i I i love you Very Much

[cme2c]

Nothing to do with Carmen Miranda.

It seems every time someone calls a Golf GTI a GTi, some people fly off the handle and say "a GTi is a Suzuki." or something similar. This is hurtful to those of us that have real GTis, that is, French ones.

The first GTi I could find was the 1961 Maserati 3500 GTi, also the first fuel injected Italian road car. Of course, there were (and are) many French GTis. Citroen AX,BX and CX, Peugeot 106, 205, 206, 207 ,306 and 505 for example. Oh and also Suzuki, Nissan Almera and Proton Satria. There may be more.

It seems only the Volkswagen group gives "injection" a capital I in Golf, Polo and Lupo. Seat also had an Ibiza GTI at one stage.

So, next time someone calls a GTI a GTi, you can say "No, that's a Maserati" or "No, that's a Peugeot 205, the fastest point to point car of its day " or "No that's the World Rally Championship winning Peugeot 206GTi."

Much better.