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2000 Beetle RSi Factory built race car fitted with all the correct parts. 2. 8 VR6 engine and six speed gearbox with limited slip diff. Bilstein suspension freshly overhauled. Four pot brake calipers with fully floating discs. 9x18 OZ magnesium wheels freshly powder coated. Fully welded in roll cage. Perspex windows. Aeroquipe brake hoses. Car comes fitted with Slick racing tyres.
There are six more wheels, also freshly powder coated, 7 Slicks/ 8 Wets and a spare body kit available by separate negotiation.
Only 60 of these race cars produced and 250 Road car examples.
This car has been used as a show car for the last seven years and its bodywork is immaculate for a race car, not showing the usual battle scar's that race cars suffer with. This will make a good investment as there are not many near standard cars left.
The Racing Beetle RSI made its competition debut in 1999 in the Volkswagen Racing-organised New Beetle Cup, and examples of the 2. 8-litre V6-engined “superbug” found their way into the UK-based Volkswagen Racing Cup two years later. CBT Motorsport’s Stuart Scott was the first UK driver to take delivery of one.
Designed and developed at Volkswagen Racing’s Hanover headquarters, the Racing Beetle RSI provided much of the inspiration for the road-going Beetle RSI, and many body panels were shared.
The big mechanical difference between the two, of course, was that the track version was front-wheel drive, while the road car was 4wd. The two cars could not be more different inside, either: the Racing RSI is a pared-to-the-bone track machine equipped with a hefty welded-in roll-over cage, a single OMP racing seat with six-point harness and a plumbed-in fire extinguisher system.
With 220bhp to play, a six-speed gearbox and race-developed anti-lock brakes, not to mention racing rubber, the RSI was a potent track weapon, as demonstrated by Stuart during the 2011 Volkswagen Racing Cup season, when he scored many top-10 finishes.
