Deadeye quote
"I also enjoyed the Hot Hatch part for its creation of nostalgia as I had 2x Mk2 Golf GTi's (8v) as well ^^
Awesome cars and I would probably buy one again, but a decent example - not the two dogs I had before :P
... I still haven't paid more than £500 for a car. Ever. "
I had a very early 8v, with the small bumpers, it was a peach, very torquey..it was previously owned by my dad....for his birthday once i got him a full set of Billstein dampers and springs and man did that thing handle like a rollerskate.......about a year later i went in for the kill, this was in 2001......i swapped my dad my N reg Vauxhall Astra 1.4 bore bore
for his golf
Since then i have owned
*Honda Civic Type R
*VW Polo GTI
*Renault Clio (company car)
*Seat Leon TDI 90 mapped to 125
*Suzuki Ignis Sport
*Skoda Fabia Diesel
*Skoda Fabia Monte Carlo (current car)
so i've basically wasted lots of money on cars since that swap in 2001.........what's my dad driving now........still the Vauxhall Astra the bastard!!!, it never missed a beat, totally reliable as foc, rusting a bit now though with 140k on the clock.
there's gotta be a moral to the story somewhere.