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Re: New Gti
...but what else does one do with these:Amor Vincit Omnia wrote:Cars (motorised vehicular conveyances, horseless carriages, jalopies). They don't even make them with a proper clock in these days, dammit.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?
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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.
Each new Golf GTi has been fatter and heavier, needing ever more power to achieve the desired result.
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Probably good fun to drive, but I need to be able to get more than a teabag in the boot!!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.
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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.Drmarkf wrote:
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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
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
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Re: New Gti
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!!!!
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Re: New Gti
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.)
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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I couldn't agree moreBahnstormer_vRS wrote:I prefer the vRS many similarities and several thousand pounds cheaper.
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Re: New Gti
I had a Leon Fr and yeah it was good, but it was never a Golf!!
Personal preference I suppose.
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Re: New Gti
carlt69 wrote:I had a Leon Fr and yeah it was good, but it was never a Golf!! .
Think that was the point
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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!
Does anyone know if there will be a new hot Deisel version, my company have taken petrol cars off the list!