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He now appears to have discounted the Sirocco overnight. We were due to view a Polo GTI at a VW dealership but it sold almost immediately. In response to MX5 suggestions. His mum has one and that puts him off lol!
Looks like the search continues.
I wouldn't go the GTI route myself – those Polos are pretty drab and uninteresting; I'd go for a Fiesta ST, Suzuki Swift Sport or an older GT86. Far more compelling and entertaining.
(Seconding Grudas, I see. )
Sciroccos are duller than a dull thing, even in R flavour.
I would recommend he try an MX-5, too. The NC generation isn't particularly thrilling, in standard form, but it's a great platform from which to work from (if that's of any interest). I don't miss mine, that said, and I'd much rather a GT86. Far more of a driver's car out of the box.
Scirocco is a Golf with some practically removed. Thats about it.
So many replies...
He now appears to have discounted the Sirocco overnight. We were due to view a Polo GTI at a VW dealership but it sold almost immediately. In response to MX5 suggestions. His mum has one and that puts him off lol!
Looks like the search continues.
I've not got much experience with the Scirocco but I found the ride felt different to the Golf - for want of a better way to put it it felt flatter on the road, firmer. Though my experience is mostly with older Golfs that tend to flow with the road quite nicely IMO.
Scirocco has a wider rear track and adaptive suspension as standard I found it handled slightly better than a MK5 Golf GTI
Never had a car anywhere near as fun.
Got written off last year by an idiot.
The driver?
A 21ish year old new driver in his nans Citroën c3
Yeah drove into the drivers side rear on an empty dual carriage way.
Took out 10 posts on my way through.
I assume he was looking at a phone or something and tried to go round me too late.
Fish tailed me, I went under the wired central reservation, the wire went all way over the car and down the back (lucky I had the roof up)
I ended up on the other carriage way pointing into the incoming traffic.
Luckily I was against the reservation.
Police thought it had been flipped the wire broke the windscreen, ripped the roof, scratched the boot.
Rear drivers wheel was broken clean off and front and back bumper were ripped to pieces
To top it off I was going to an interview the next morning. I had driven from Peterborough to Cardiff and was under 10 miles from my hotel!
You're a lucky boy! That could easily have been so much worse.