RWD vs FWD on The Nurburgring: Aston Martin V8 Vantage Fights VW Golf GTI Mk VII

This fight, which took place during a tourist session held this week, sees the driver of an Aston Martin Vantage V8 chasing a Mk VII GTI on the Green Hell.

The battle gets pretty tight and we can assure you that it will give both rear-wheel-drive and front-wheel-drive fans something to talk about.

As you'll be able to notice in the piece of footage documenting the fight, the Aston driver and his female passenger are fully enjoying the ride, while casually engaging in conversation.

The V8 Vantage wielder also talks about the less-than-ten-out-of-ten pace in the description of the video, where we find out that the sportscar is 100 percent stock, while wearing tires that date back to 2010.

"Racing driver" excuses or not, we wouldn't regard this Ring sprint as an all-out battle, but rather as an experience that involves hooning aficionados enjoying themselves.

As for the hot hatch, the guy behind the wheel of the Aston Martin lets it slip that a chat with the GTI owner has revealed the German machine had been pushed to 360 horses.

Now, if we are to look at the Nordschleife numbers of the stock Golf GTI and V8 Vantage, the first needs somewhere between 8:20 and 8:30 to lap the Green Hell, while the second is an 8:03 car. Then again, these chronograph figures cover the factory stock incarnation of the two machines, so the hot hatch one doesn't apply to the vehicle we have here.

Fortunately, the Gaydon machine was cast in the role of a camera car, which means that the aural side of the fight is even more thrilling than the visual one.