My new CaR...

SamuraiTortoise · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:01

Hi, got this a few weeks ago but haven't had the chance to get some pics. Was up in the Lake District this weekend so took the opportunity for a couple of pics. Shame it's not particularly clean but it had just done a 4.5hour (250 mile odd) journey also a great blat through a great road from Ambleside to Glenridding the "Kirkstone Pass" - was a quality road with awesome views and some great twisty driving

randal · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:04

Very nice

Any mods, or factory stock? I'm looking at it's baby brother for the next car (4motion), damn R32s are too pricey for me!

[TW]Fox · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:04

A Volkswagen Golf, just the job for nipping about town

Congrats!

How much?

Jez · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:10

Not very clean?

SamuraiTortoise · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:12

randal24 said:
Very nice Any mods, or factory stock? I'm looking at it's baby brother for the next car (4motion), damn R32s are too pricey for me!

It's basically standard at the mo. Bought from a main stealer p/x'd my MK4 Gti 1.8t.

2003 MK4 R32 Indigo Blue
48000 Miles
£14,995

It has had the software update (6463) which fixes a hesitation R32's had from low revs. I've just done the flapper mod which makes the exhaust note slightly nicer at low rpm and some say gains a couple of bhp although I'm not sure. Centre caps are R's instead of VW ones. That's all at the moment. Just going to enjoy it how it is for now before adding the Carboni CAI and Miltek Exhausts and then who knows!?

Jez said:
Not very clean?

Honestly, the camera was being kind and not showing up all the water marks, dead flies and 250 miles worth of M6 dirt and I know what this forum can be like about "detailing" etc

[TW]Fox · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:18

Could you share with us your motivation to part with a staggering £15,000 to buy a 4 year old, discontinued old shape Volkswagen Golf when similar money could have got you a current GTi?

I appreciate the Mk4 GTI will have put you off GTI's but the new Mk5 is actually quite good.

randal · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:20

[TW]Fox;10422261 said:
Could you share with us your motivation to part with a staggering £15,000 to buy a 4 year old, discontinued old shape Volkswagen Golf when similar money could have got you a current GTi?

I appreciate the Mk4 GTI will have put you off GTI's but the new Mk5 is actually quite good.

I'm guessing 6 cylinders, 3.2 litres of love and the mantra "there's no replacement for displacement" probably has something to do with it...

[TW]Fox · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:21

Doesn't matter how many cylinders its got, £15k for a Golf replaced by a new model over 3 years ago is mental. I know this is how much R32's are worth but jeez it takes fanboy dedication to actually part with that much money for it.

I mean it looks smart... but.. :confused:

lordrobs · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:23

[TW]Fox;10422261 said:
Could you share with us your motivation to part with a staggering £15,000 to buy a 4 year old, discontinued old shape Volkswagen Golf when similar money could have got you a current GTi?

I appreciate the Mk4 GTI will have put you off GTI's but the new Mk5 is actually quite good.

Could you share your motivation for turning this thread into a "look what you could have bought with £15k" discussion? I wouldn't pay 15k for one, you wouldn't pay 15k for one, not that it makes one jot of difference when its not our 15k the OP is spending.

[TW]Fox · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:24

lordrobs said:
Could you share your motivation for turning this thread into a "look what you could have bought with £15k" discussion?

Ok. I'm genuinelly interested in what this offers that a Mk5 GTI does not which makes it worth what you cannot disagree is a particularly huge amount of money. Surely you have to be at least half curious as to what makes this car, just a year newer than yours and sharing many, many component parts, worth 3 times as much?

I would expect similar questions from this forum if I one day blew £30k on an E39.

It's also more interesting to debate the pros and cons of a car purchase than it is for 15 people to post 'omg its so pretty' and the thread to then vanish into obscurity. It's what discussion forums are for. If he posts on R32OC I'm sure he'll get nothing more positive comments

gobbo · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:25

[TW]Fox said:
it takes fanboy dedication to actually part with that much money for it.

Can't help but laugh!

Jez · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:27

Vintage_Geek said:
2003 MK4 R32 Indigo Blue
48000 Miles
£14,995

I realise you benefitted from main dealer facilities, and they took your GTI nice and easily, but seriously i must say that this is a very inflated price. The equivalent car on a private sale would have been more like £12500.

Guess it depends how much cash you have kicking around, but i like to think i am not hard up, yet i'd have taken the "risk" for £2500 (plus the additional i'd have gotten for the GTI by selling it private).

lordrobs · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:34

[TW]Fox;10422312 said:
Ok. I'm genuinelly interested in what this offers that a Mk5 GTI does not which makes it worth what you cannot disagree is a particularly huge amount of money. Surely you have to be at least half curious as to what makes this car, just a year newer than yours and sharing many, many component parts, worth 3 times as much?

I would expect similar questions from this forum if I one day blew £30k on an E39.

It's also more interesting to debate the pros and cons of a car purchase than it is for 15 people to post 'omg its so pretty' and the thread to then vanish into obscurity. It's what discussion forums are for. If he posts on R32OC I'm sure he'll get nothing more positive comments

It just seems like a never ending question though, you could pick any car on here and ask "why didn't you buy an x instead?"

I see your point and it is a fair enough question I suppose but it does come across like your trying to **** on the poor guy's chips

[TW]Fox · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:39

lordrobs said:
It just seems like a never ending question though, you could pick any car on here and ask "why didn't you buy an x instead?"

Yup. Why not? It's interesting. Somebody about to buy a car could stumble on the thread and see 2 pages of people arguing the pros and cons of it. Great and useful.

I see your point and it is a fair enough question I suppose but it does come across like your trying to **** on the poor guy's chips

This is an internet forum and he's just bought a car he's probably wanted for a long time. He's on cloud nine and I doubt he's going to be particularly bothered by the fact some of us think he's mad for buying it. Just like the day I got my car, I really couldnt have cared less who didnt like it

SamuraiTortoise · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:57

[TW]Fox;10422416 said:
he's just bought a car he's probably wanted for a long time. He's on cloud nine and I doubt he's going to be particularly bothered by the fact some of us think he's mad for buying it. Just like the day I got my car, I really couldnt have cared less who didnt like it

Couldn't have put it better myself.

[TW]Fox · 5 Nov 2007 at 13:57

But don't we get to find out why

caeteez · 5 Nov 2007 at 14:06

[TW]Fox;10422583 said:
But don't we get to find out why

Are you really that interested, or do you just want to pick holes in the guys purchase?

SamuraiTortoise · 5 Nov 2007 at 14:08

You said it yourself...a car I've always wanted.

Especially after having the Gti, the R32 was something I'd always looked up to and loved to pieces. My time came to finally own that car and I took that opportunity. Price was a little more but £12500k quoted as a good private sale price before is an extreme. I only paid about 1k for the pleasure of the main dealer compared to others car in similar mint standard condition and there wasn't a single other car this colour on the market that I could find and I didn't want to get the more popular Deep Pearl Blue. This is one of only 75 cars produced in the UK in this Indigo Blue.

I really liked my Gti and as I knew it well after 4 years, I liked the idea of having something very similar but vastly more powerful. I missed having my BMW 328i sport coupe (car before the Gti) and the sound of the larger engine and thought I'd couple the two best cars I've owned into one.

That's why I bought it. I just simply love them.

lordrobs · 5 Nov 2007 at 14:29

Vintage_Geek said:
You said it yourself...a car I've always wanted.

Must be great to own something you've set your sights on.

I've never felt that way about a car, maybe if I found a car I was 100% happy with then I'd set my sights on owning the flagship model? Then again knowing me by the time it comes to change cars there will be something new out tempting me

Booner! · 5 Nov 2007 at 14:31

Golf owners opinion =

I look at a mk5 1.4/1.6/GTI and even the mk5 R32 and its just "a golf".

I look at the R32 Mk4 as a beast, I actually will turn my head/body into a medically unsuitable direction to see it and what mods it has. For some reason, it really floats my boat. Likewise with Penski and his retro rides, which I wouldn't acknowledge nor spend £1 towards owning a retro ride.

Each to their own I guess?

I do admit, I wouldn't spend £15k on an R32 even with my love for it! Maybe £12k..

How much did you get for the 1.8t out of interest?

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