Has anyone mistaken or called your MK6 a MK5???

[gtiobsession]

The one thing that is beginning to bug me is that some people still dont give the MK6 enough credit about its looks and insist that the MK6 and MK5 look almost similar I personally think it is quite distinguishable from an MK5 especially when you put them together,no offence to MK5 owners its an amazing car nonetheless but it looks bloated in comparison to the MK6 .I think VW should have marketed the MK6 as an executive hatch because its interior,infact the whole package puts it in another class.If someone had to mistake my MK6 GTI(which is still in the pipeline )for an MK5 I would be P1$$ED!they can say goodbye to their eyes!

[gc76]

Never been mistaken for a mk5.  From the side they maybe look similar, but front and back are totally different.

[mac7]

Think most people who aren't car enthusiasts will just see another Golf, and not really register any difference. From a distance side-on they look almost identical, but personally I don't think you can mistake the two. The Mk6 uses the classical VW restrained/conservative approach as apposed to the attempt by the Mk5 stylists to move the VW design language into new territory with big chrome (black for the GTI obviously) grilles and an unforgivably fat rear end.

Simply put, the Mk6 is how the Mk5 should have been in the first place.

[gtiobsession]

Think most people who aren't car enthusiasts will just see another Golf, and not really register any difference. From a distance side-on they look almost identical, but personally I don't think you can mistake the two. The Mk6 uses the classical VW restrained/conservative approach as apposed to the attempt by the Mk5 stylists to move the VW design language into new territory with big chrome (black for the GTI obviously) grilles and an unforgivably fat rear end.

Simply put, the Mk6 is how the Mk5 should have been in the first place.

Well put

[shrocco]

The one thing that is beginning to bug me is that some people still dont give the MK6 enough credit about its looks and insist that the MK6 and MK5 look almost similar

but they are very similar cars 

i'd hardly be upset if someone confused my e28 with an e12 (which is essentially the same as mk5/6 golfs - just a facelift)

[R32UK]

I have had loads of people ask if I had my car resprayed

mostly girls though

[gtiobsession]

women what can you do

[VWKev]

Personally it wont matter a jot to me if they mistake what mk it is. They are both class cars. But I think that people who know about the GTI wont ask that question, and people that dont know about it wont ask it either, they will just ask 'Is that the new one ?'

[orca]

I've been driving Golfs for years, Mk2, Mk3 and Mk5, not all GTIs though, and I have to admit that I find it hard to distinguish a normal Mk6 and Mk5 from a distance.  They kind of just seem the same.  I've yet to see a Mk6 GTI on the roads though.

VW have a winning formula with the Golf and they would be stupid to radically change it's appearance.  It wouldn't be a Golf otherwise.

[VWKev]

I've been driving Golfs for years, Mk2, Mk3 and Mk5, not all GTIs though, and I have to admit that I find it hard to distinguish a normal Mk6 and Mk5 from a distance.  They kind of just seem the same.  I've yet to see a Mk6 GTI on the roads though.

VW have a winning formula with the Golf and they would be stupid to radically change it's appearance.  It wouldn't be a Golf otherwise.

You cant even notice 2 red stripes compared to one at the front, or two sperate exhausts compared to two together from a distance ? Sorry but you should get an eye test, and really shouldnt be driving.