Seeing as some scumbag twocked our gert's 1997 "India Gold" Corsa (maybe did her a favour) we were on the lookout for a new budget motor for her.
We were looking at modern small engined cars and over the last few weeks we have looked at Corsa's, Puma's, Fiesta's, Escort's, Tigra's you name it.
However this car caught her eye and she fell in love with it as soon as she saw it.
It's a 1995 MK3 8V GTI in metallic blue (anyone know the colour name, never seen another GTI in this colour) bit of a change from what she was initially looking for.
The car is near immaculate barring a small mark on the passenger sill step a very slight scuff on the rear bumper (only saw it because I was told by its current owner) and the alloy wheels have a bit of lacquer bubbling around the valves.
It has a mahoosive folder full of service history and reciepts. It's almost totally standard save for a stainless CAT back exhaust (this has been custom made to replicate the OE exhaust and is very quiet) and a VR6 front splitter. It even still has the factory fitted head unit and genuine VW floor mats.
Despite having 118k on the clock it drives like new and absolutely everything works.
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We viewed the car a couple of weeks ago and left it as it was one of the first cars we looked at. We drove another lower mileage newer GTI for comparisons sake and TBH it wasn't quite as good as this one.
After fruitlessly looking at other cars we went for another look and made a deal on it.
Long term plans are to sort the sill step, the scuff and eventually refurb the alloys. After that hopefully it will just be regular maintenance and enjoy the car.