Calling Golf owners...

Thats a very good price... these cars are pretty rare... especially with low mileage for its year. Thats a good price... the GT TDI's are going for a little less... I was also recommend looking at a Anniversary gold 1.8T as they will hold their value loads more and they look much better :D
 
[TW]Fox;10999060 said:
Half the country seems to think they are amazing ultra reliable super-duper prestigious wonder hatchbacks.
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my r32 has done 103 thousand miles without any major work, i think thats pretty reliable to me! ;)
 
tj86 said:
Wow 103 is pretty high... you will start to get problems soon enough mate... trust me :D
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not a chance ;) she gets stronger by the mile. not worse. I have all the equipment i need to make sure she stays running as good as she is :D

there are guys in germany and the US just installing turbo's at 100k :D
 
LOL... nice... in that case... good luck... but the amount of Audi's/Golf's I've seen start having problems after about 120k... but yours might be ok :P
 
Had a run in it this morning. Everything was perfect, but automatics are just not for me :| Back to the drawing board, nngh!
 
1 year ago a friend of mine spent 11k on a 53reg TDI golf 150. When I heard I said big wtf, what a rip off!
he could have got a newer, lower mileage, 1.8T cupra for that...
 
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tatts said:
I want to know why [TW]Fox hates the golf so much?
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I believe I covered that above?

The rest are overpriced for a reason, and no its down to them being prestigious or thinking they have a posh badge its the simple fact that they are good reliable cars
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They are no more reliable than most other half decent cars. Wayn0r appears to think 103k miles without major work is some sort of VAGtastic achievement. So what? I've got a Mondeo parked outside with near 150k without major work, thats what decent modern cars can do these days.

but recommening a ford over one of these for similar money is just silly.
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Why? The ST220 is better than the car in the OP in almost every conceivable way.

Saying that, i think bmw are the most over-rated/priced cars on the market considering what mercedes & audi have to offer for similar price tags ;)
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Generaly speaking, the equivilent Audi tends to cost a few hundred quid more than the equivilent BMW. Please try and add some substance to your points :)
 
I had a 2003 V5 for the last couple of years, it was just sold to one of my friends. It’s a nice enough car but it would drink petrol at a shocking rate. its quite quick but nothing amazing.

It was relatively reliable other than having to replace the gear box at 3 500 pounds.
 
eidolon said:
Which Golfs have you driven Fox? How did they compare to the Focus' that you've driven?
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2.0 8v GTI. It was better built, it wasn't as sharp, and it was slow (But I appreciate the slowness is unique to the 2.0 8v and wont be present in the better models).
 
[TW]Fox;11000767 said:
They are no more reliable than most other half decent cars. Wayn0r appears to think 103k miles without major work is some sort of VAGtastic achievement. So what? I've got a Mondeo parked outside with near 150k without major work, thats what decent modern cars can do these days.
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you just said earlier that they are unreliable? on what basis are they unreliable ?
 
I don't recall saying in this thread that they were unreliable. Perhaps you'd like to point it out to me.

I said everyone thinks they are some sort of amazingly uber reliable car - ie, that they are leagues ahead of the competition helped by VW's arrogant 'If only everything in life...' ad campaign a few years back. People then pay higher prices becuase they perceive it to be worth it even though a Golf is no more reliable than a Focus.
 
its called good business and marketing, obviously it works as you can see by the residual values of VW's ;) We have been here before fox, i dont want to get into another "Golfs" suck thread, because we all knowwwwww

R32 > you :D
 
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