Best £3.95 ever spent!

Rex-Kramer

Rex-Kramer

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Been looking for a Golf GTD on a 57 plate for a while now. They are 13k all day long for anything worth having. :rolleyes:

Found one autotrader for £10995, if it seems too good to be true it usually is, conversation went like this:

"Oh yes mate, its a minter, nothing wrong with it, im a dealer, do lots of these cars back to VW but they arent buying at the moment, its HPI clear i bought it off a careful owner who couldnt pay finance, thats why its the price it is"

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ok mate!

One HPI check later: Insurance write off in Sept, CAT D :eek: Not a mention of that anywhere.

Best £3.95 ever!
 
Before you buy one, this is what Clarkson thinks of them:

The worst thing, though, is that the Golf GT fails to do any of the things that you might reasonably expect from a car. It doesn't make the journey fun. It doesnt isolate you from the sensation of travel. And it isn't especially cheap. By the time I arrived in Falmouth, I was ready to push it into the sea.

The following day, after a 7 hour drive back to London, up the M5 and along the M4, I decided that it was one of the five worst cars I'd driven. Yes, the journey, in the middle of winter, was horrid. But its the job of a good car to take a trip like that and make it better.

The Golf made it much, much worse.
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Im open to suggestions, was looking at the a3 too. Budget not really an issue for the right car but ideally somewhere near the 13k mark.
 
I thought the '09 GTD was the first GTD since the 80's or something?

Or is this just a 'GT' (as in, styling pack) that happens to have a Diesil engine?
 
Ste said:
I thought the '09 GTD was the first GTD since the 80's or something?

Or is this just a 'GT' (as in, styling pack) that happens to have a Diesil engine?
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Yes the 140 2.0TDI. Which is err slow. 13k and he's not buying more than four cylinders. Worse still a four cylinder oil burner.
 
The latest mk6 golf with the 2.0L TDI diesel engine With the gti bodykit is called the GTD

The mk5 golfs have a lot of GT's Which you can get from a 1.4tsi petrol , 2.0tsi petrol 2.0tdi derv.

The mk5 golf gt's have a different front end than a normal mk5, they have a black grill some with black headlights too.

The early mk5 gt's didn't look any different to another boggy mk5.


Hope this explains it
 
[TW]Fox;15791111 said:
Before you buy one, this is what Clarkson thinks of them:
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I know you hate Golfs, but in the interest of balance...

1. As SkodaMart points out, Clarkson was driving a different engine i.e. the 1.4 twin-charged petrol.

2. He seems to have had winter mode on the entire time, without realising what the 'W' button meant, so take his opinion with a pinch of salt.

3. The engine he did test drive won Engine of the Year 2009:

"Having accumulated 354 points from 65 judges, VW’s innovative new-generation TSI Twincharger has ended four years of BMW dominance to win the overall International Engine of the Year Award for 2009."

http://www.ukipme.com/engineoftheyear/winners_09/winner.html

Most people that know what they're talking about realise that Clarkson isn't a serious motoring journalist.

On topic, yes an HPI is of course a necessity when purchasing a car. And an A3 is a great car, but I'm sure for £13k you have many options; consider as many as you can before spooging.

[TW]Fox;15791434 said:
Yea but its hardly going to be improved with a 4 pot dagdag under the bonnet is it :p
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The tragic thing is that you seem to honestly believe that purely adding an extra two cylinders, turns a car from a crappy 'dagdag' into a fantastic engine, with no other factors being taken into account.
 
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I did one earlier today on the motorhome I'd already agreed to buy. Not the right way around to do it, but thankfully it came black clear on all fronts. Even recognised as a motorhome, which is reassuring.
 
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Yes the 140 2.0TDI. Which is err slow. 13k and he's not buying more than four cylinders. Worse still a four cylinder oil burner.
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If i wanted fast i would have stuck with my 335i which i sold last year well above book price. Your tone is very patronising indeed, i was looking at the Golf diesel because i do about 30k miles a year commuting to work. £13k seems about the sweet spot for me in terms of car, economy and reasonable performance.

If i want fast ill go buy a 996 or such like, as i said budget isnt the issue. :eek:
 
Well perhaps i phrased it wrong, money isnt the issue, but value for money is. Im currently doing my commute in a V6 Golf and thats not value for money at 28mpg :eek:

The point is i wanted a comfortable motorway car that provides solid value for money at that sort of price point, the £13k mark.

I can get another car for the "Weekend, look at my trophy bird" motor.
 
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