Asker, you poor poor thing, having to suffer all that luxury. I'm sat here with the headache from hell and even now my eyes are welling up at the thought of your plight in gay Paree.
Amanda, I'm sure it was the shock of the fantastic value a new Golf offers that caused your momentary outburst. There's no need to sit in the dark, stay and post away with us fellow forum sufferers, Geoff meant no harm.
And Geoff's point about general car prices is an unfortunate truth too (he's not defending the price of a Golf in any way), my good friend Jonathan is a manager at a car leasing and rental company and he keeps my feet grounded when I explode at every cost increase VW treat the Golf to.
Gone, it seems, are the days of Ford and the French manufacturers mass producing and stockpiling the cars at the docks then selling them off for 50p each. Even a pig ugly Focus now costs silly money. Our only way out of this vicious circle is to stop buying new cars for a while so the costs have to come down, but alas keeping up with the Jonses is a typical human reaction and we'll continue to be our own worst enemies as consumers. Amen.
Oh, and thanks Lee for posting this up, we always appreciate your little 'scoops'.
On the face of it the ED35 doesn't fare that badly when compared with a 210PS GTI of similar spec. Shame it has swollen glands and poor fuel consumption. Maybe it'll grow on me.
