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Some pictures would help us to understand what this thread is all about :D :silent:
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Mortis wrote:I think I understood about three words in this thread. Does it have a swan neck regulator? Is it COSC? What the hell are you lot talking about?
Cars (motorised vehicular conveyances, horseless carriages, jalopies). They don't even make them with a proper clock in these days, dammit.
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What you really need is a VW Up GTi, apparently as close as you can get to the original Mk 1 Golf GTi.

Each new Golf GTi has been fatter and heavier, needing ever more power to achieve the desired result.
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moriarty wrote:What you really need is a VW Up GTi, apparently as close as you can get to the original Mk 1 Golf GTi.

Each new Golf GTi has been fatter and heavier, needing ever more power to achieve the desired result.
Probably good fun to drive, but I need to be able to get more than a teabag in the boot!! :wink:
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Now I'd really like one of those screwed into my dash. I have this trip computer thing that gives me more telemetry than Apollo 11 - bloody thing doesn't even have a proper petrol gauge! The clock is a permenent LED display at the top. I'm tempted to tape it over then I'll have to look at my watch. :grandpa:
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In the past I've had a mk1 Scirocco Storm and a mk2 Golf GTi 8v. Both were long-term keepers, amazingly reliable for their era (actually for any era, since I don't recall anything ever going wrong with either), and I fitted Koni suspension kits to both which transformed the handling.

I've driven several later sporty Golfs, and I agree everything has got a bit flabby and soft. However, I did have a terrific test drive of one of these about 6 years ago



A great noise - and its worth seeking out underpasses to drive through with the windows open.

I was accompanied on the test by a salesman from Vindis, the VW dealership in Cambridge: he was excellent, and I nearly bought the thing until family considerations pushed me to a BMW.

However, for full disclosure I have to report that I totalled the front splitter on a speed-bump on the Cambridge Science Park.

The salesman had kept encouraging me to try the handling over the less-than-good surfaces of the Park, and I certainly obliged...

He just shrugged and said they'd lost a couple of others in the same week :thumbup:
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Drmarkf wrote:
A great noise - and its worth seeking out underpasses to drive through with the windows open.

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Can't say I've ever ever done that, at all, in my 3.0 V6!!!! :-" 8)
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Good stuff. My mk2 8v Gti was one of the most fun cars I've owned. As was the Corrado VR6 I had.

My current mk3 Gti is fun in a different way - part of the rusty sill fell off the other day (noticed by my other half), and I didn't even check to see which bit. In a way it's quite relaxing. (In another way, to be fair, it's not brilliant.)
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A 5 door GTi [insert shakes head sadly smiley here]
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Bahnstormer_vRS wrote:I prefer the vRS many similarities and several thousand pounds cheaper.

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I had a Leon Fr and yeah it was good, but it was never a Golf!!

Personal preference I suppose.
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carlt69 wrote:I had a Leon Fr and yeah it was good, but it was never a Golf!! .

Think that was the point :wink:
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The golf GTi is the best car I have owned, even managed to pull my wife in it!

Does anyone know if there will be a new hot Deisel version, my company have taken petrol cars off the list!