"This is a sensational success. The Golf was running like clockwork. We only refuelled, changed tyres and brake linings - that's all. All of the drivers and the entire team rendered a perfect performance, the showing of our juniors impressed me in particular," Volkswagen Motorsport Director Kris Nissen summed up the result with satisfaction. "A super team performance," said Dr Ulrich Hackenberg, Member of the Volkswagen Brand Board for the Development Division, praising the performance as well. "The Golf showed the potential it harbours yet again. And this 24-hour race with its extreme conditions was arguably exactly what you'd call a 'Green Hell': demanding and in a class of its own." About 200,000 spectators witnessed a high-calibre 24-hour race on the 25.378-kilometre combination of the Grand Prix circuit and the legendary Nordschleife that was marked by capricious weather. First, a thunderstorm with torrential rain on Saturday afternoon delayed the start by nearly two hours, then the race was interrupted for five and a half hours during the night on account of fog with visibility below 30 metres.

"In this popular festival of racing the Golf definitely made new friends," commented Kris Nissen. The project was realised in an extremely short space of time, without impairing our main engagement with the Race Touareg in any way. A week ago, we won the Rally Transibérico with Carlos Sainz, and in the Baja 500 in Mexico we showed a strong performance with the Race Touareg as well, now it's this excellent team performance with the Golf, and in parallel, we're completing an endurance test with the Race Touareg in Tunisia - no doubt a tough week for Volkswagen Motorsport, but it also proves the performance capabilities of our entire squad, which fills me with great pride."

"That was really a dream: The car, the team, the circuit, the atmosphere - everything was fantastic. I wouldn't mind driving my next 24-hour race straight away," said an elated Jimmy Johansson, the current Champion in the ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup, after his début in the 24 hour classic in the Eifel region. "This event had it all, an incredible experience and a huge success," rejoiced René Rast, the 2005 Polo Cup Champion. "I'm satisfied through and through, the car was simply superb all the way to the last lap. My thanks to Volkswagen for this experience," added Florian Gruber, who also originates from Volkswagen's programme of promoting young talent. The multiple German Rally Champion Dieter Depping, who augmented the Juniors team, summed up the outcome, saying, "Everything had been prepared perfectly from the very beginning - it couldn't have been topped."

Indeed the number 111 Golf driven by Rast/Johansson/Gruber/Depping that finished eighth overall and won in class reeled off the total of 101 laps on the Nordschleife, which is notorious for the tough demands it makes on material, without a single unscheduled pit stop for technical reasons.