It sounds a very positive start with the GTE. It certainly seems like it’s got a high spec with the pano roof too. Hopefully yours won’t suffer the in pandemic of cracked surrounds.
I’m slightly older than you and my first car was a mk1 Scirocco GTI when I was about 18. I was absolutely mad on them when I was a teen. I wanted a GLi as they had lovely interiors compared to the more spartan GTI trim but the GTI was really rare, they can’t have imported many in mk1 guise. Mine had a hard life as it was thrashed and never cleaned!
In fact it was like a mobile skip when I was renovating my first flat.
I always planned on replacing it with a mk2 Scirocco GTX but ended up buying a mk1 1.8 Golf GTI which was an unreliable beast but ended up getting very modified as every time something broke on it I uprated it!
How jealous am I that you had a Scirocco Storm?!