Interactive ad: Golf GTI: Time Machine

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Top 6: November 16th 2011

DDB UK and Volkswagen today announce the availability of the Golf GTI Edition 35 in the UK with a new campaign that celebrates 35 years of the much loved and iconic model by turning it into a 'time machine' and sending it back through the decades.

The online and experiential campaign launched in October with a live event staged at the Truman Brewery in East London, and hosted by TV presenter and racing driver Amanda Stretton. Spectators watched as two engineers clambered into the GTI 'time machine' and accelerated towards a wall, only to see it vanish in front of their very eyes and apparently reappear at Volkswagen's German headquarters in Wolfsburg in 1976.

The event has been made into a viral film which is being broadcast on the Volkswagen UK Facebook page and seeded to a wide range of blogs and websites.

However, the event itself marks only the beginning of the journey; over the next four weeks, fans will be able to follow the story of the Golf GTI and its two intrepid engineers on Facebook as they make their way back through the decades, dropping in on a range of historic moments along the way. Their adventures will be documented through a series of daily posts from the front line of time travel – a mix of film footage, competitions and photographs.