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The best thing for me about being a girl racer was being the only one in my group of friends.

Ceri's story

Taking the car to meets and showing off what I'd done as a girl and being surrounded by, you know, 95 percent males was quite empowering. My first car was a Mark 2 Golf. And it was the love of my life. I didn't stop washing it. I didn't stop hoovering it.

After getting a little part time job, I started to make adjustments to it, like putting on new alloys, all those little bits and pieces that you do when you're younger.

All about the mods

Back in the day, it was all about how you could change a vehicle, switch it around, personalise and make it your own. I think that's kind of what drew me to it as well. The amount of kits you could get and sound systems, things you could do to the engines. It was amazing.

The max power kind of era that we were in at that point where everybody was putting kits on cars and putting silly sound systems in the back and it being completely impractical, but I was absolutely in love with it. It was an obsession, for sure.

It's competitive

From that point on it progressed. I got the bug. It became Mk4 golfs, then it progressed on to bigger and better things with a Mk5. I had a lovely black Mk5, which was done up as well. Then the Mk5 eventually turned into a Volkswagen CC, which is a saloon car I got when I had my first child. 

I wanted something really lovely and fast, but also something that was super practical for a family as well. We had that for about 10 years. When we knew that we wanted to go electric, we went straight onto the ID.3. It was practical for us. I also really wanted to circle back around to a Golf style after the CC.

A better tomorrow

My children have made me much more aware of the environment and what's going on around us. I think that the future is definitely electric. I’m 100 percent more geared towards the kids and what their future will look like. 

I went from the internal combustion engine firstly because of the impact it’s having and that it's going to be outdated very soon. I know the government has already announced plans to end petrol and diesel engines. I wanted to be at the start of that journey, so it was a natural progression for us to go electric.

Meet the Volks and their Wagens

This film is dedicated to our fans. Each story within it reflects the sincere affection Volks hold for their Wagens. It includes people from every corner of the country, from all walks of life, driving all kinds of Volkswagens, from vintage Beetles to contemporary SUVs and the all-electric ID Range.