Asylum Seeker Mk2
- Thursday, 24 January 2008
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Rapid Mk2 throughbred that prefers TVR's and M3's as bait
Those who like the idea of buckling up in a white car that looks like it's fresh out of a straight jacket should clunk, click into Ben Packham's Mk2 if given the chance. His Mk2 1.8T is just one of those cars that works. Simple, subtle, smooth and devastatingly effective he's produced a timeless machine that will draw admiring glances in ten or even twenty years time. 24-year-old Ben is s true performance pervert in a world where going faster than the manufacturer intended is no longer at the top of the modifiers priority list, so much so that we've had a number of concerned readers ask whether form and style has taken the throne, leaving function and speed to wallow in the gutter. You've got to pinch yourself when you're going fast enough to a scare 50k - 60k performance car in a 17-year-old hot hatch, especially when you're in a car built on budget to an exacting spefication and time frame, not that Ben's mate, Phil, was really trying in his TVR T350, eh Ben?
For more information on Ben's 330bhp asylum seeker, search out the March 2008 issue of GOLF+ in the shops on the first friday of February.
Here's Ben's Mk2 in full widescreen, technicolour
