Watch the 435bhp Golf24

Volkswagen has released a teaser clip of its fire-spitting Nurburgring 24-hour race track warrior.

The German giant has taken its best-selling, lovable and ubiquitous hatch and fed it through a terrifying Machine of Fear to create a 435bhp weapon of Ring destruction.

See pics of the Golf24. There is fire

It gets a 2.5-litre turbocharged five-pot engine with 400lb ft of torque, permanent four-wheel drive and a six-speed sequential gearbox, and was partly built to celebrate 35 years of the GTI. You will celebrate!

This, or the ‘Ring-prepped Scirocco?