If you want a GTI for it's GTIness, then take your time and search out the best, well speced 3 year old one you can find. Swap the rear lights for LEDs and put a private plate on it and it will be unrecognisable from a much newer car to most people, but you will have spent half the money.
If you want a sensible car that offers a decent amount go and good looks, the GT TDI ticks all the boxes. There are loads of them to choose from, so getting a good one at sensible money is easy enough.
"People are not mugs because buying new , I prefer new car all day every day love the smell running in also knowing fact no one has thrashed the nuts out of it"
There is nothing quite like the feeling of owning a new car, but only if you can really afford it. I certainly don't think it's worth getting dripped up on a seemingly attractive looking finance deal to do it tho'.
