VW Golf GTI: 1984 v 2016

It's 8am and Wales is offering up its usual mixture of freezing air that locks up your lungs with a thick mist, making everything damp to the touch.

We've driven here to what is, effectively, a deserted pub car park in the middle of nowhere, in the most recent generation of the Volkswagen Golf GTI. Today, we will reunite it with its antecedent and pit them head to head around the roads of north Wales.