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Our office lacks a giant water bottle and an exercise wheel, but it's clear that Volkswagen views us as guinea pigs -- at least when it comes to the green GTI it left in our parking lot. Actually, it's not a GTI: It's a European-spec GTD. And Rainer Michel, vice president of marketing and strategy for Volkswagen of America, is imploring his bosses in Wolfsburg to bring the next iteration here after VW begins importing the seventh-generation Golf in 2013.