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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: Gene Hunt. on 10 February 2009, 15:25

Title: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: Gene Hunt. on 10 February 2009, 15:25
Any body get it & was it any good ?.Trying to track down a back issue but with no luck  :cry:  :angry:.
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: topher on 10 February 2009, 15:31
If you ring them they'll post you it for free.

http://www.evo.co.uk/news/evonews/233645/golf-gti-special.html
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: Gene Hunt. on 10 February 2009, 15:40
Thanks mate just called. :smiley: :wink:
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: carl1 on 10 February 2009, 16:09
i browsed through it, it does the mk6 gti no favours at all, it looks awful imo
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: jphealy on 10 February 2009, 16:48
Do they rate the mkVI highly?  What's their pick for the "ultimate GTI"?
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: Llewellyn on 10 February 2009, 16:50
Their pick of ultimate GTI is the Mk2

and rightly so, not that i am bias at all
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: jv on 10 February 2009, 16:54
It's a touch misleading I thought as there is no review of the mk6!
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: DJGTi on 10 February 2009, 17:08
They also gave the MkV 5 stars in every category and then said the Mk2 was the best. I'm not arguing, though :wink:.
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: 2007GTI on 10 February 2009, 17:09
am I missing something, as Gene asked for autoexpress and that was Evo, or are they one in the same now?
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: Egbutt Wash on 10 February 2009, 18:25
The Mk5 easily won overall.
But because the steering is better on the Mk2 it was placed first.

Although anyone seeing Fifthgears crash between a big old Volvo and a little modern French car (the Volvoists would be dead, the Fracophiles just fine) would be mad to drive a 1980's car.

Might buy a Mk2 myself though, just for the steering.

Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: Gene Hunt. on 10 February 2009, 18:36
am I missing something, as Gene asked for autoexpress and that was Evo, or are they one in the same now?
...........think there part of the same group mate  :wink:.
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: Egbutt Wash on 10 February 2009, 18:41
Dennis Publishing own both.
They also own VIZ


Viz Top Tip...

GOLF GT DRIVERS: Attach a lighted sparkler to the roof of your car before starting a long journey. You drive the thing like a sodding dodgem car anyway
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: illyun on 10 February 2009, 21:13
Their pick of ultimate GTI is the Mk2

and rightly so, not that i am bias at all
Have to second that - I think the Mk2 16v is the best, closely followed by the Mk5 and then the Mk1... I reckon they go it spot on for the frist three but chose the Mk3 over the Mk4?!  :sick:
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: illyun on 10 February 2009, 21:14
They also gave the MkV 5 stars in every category and then said the Mk2 was the best. I'm not arguing, though :wink:.

The Mk2 is much greater than the sum of its parts  :wink:
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: Gene Hunt. on 11 February 2009, 09:29
Big thanks to john-o for forwarding me a copy.Great read. :cool:
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: neo66 on 11 February 2009, 10:51
Cheers bud, just ordered mine! :cool:
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: bobotheclown on 11 February 2009, 11:56
Tough choice between the Mk2 and Mk5.

One has the comfort, specification and safety of a modern car.

One has the "charm" of being an old classic and having a certain retro chic.


If given the choice I know which one I would choose, or rather have chosen  :grin:
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: Egbutt Wash on 12 February 2009, 22:08
I was thinking of buying a Mk2 for pottering about in.
Having looked at the crash test video there's no way I want one.
Crash a Mk2 GTI into any modern car and you will be dead.

The crash test is here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyzCswJ_tkk

Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: bobotheclown on 13 February 2009, 16:52
eeek. that vid demonstrates how far car safety has come in 20 years. cheers for the link.
Title: Re: Golf GTI guide from autoexpress 21st jan.
Post by: Cass on 14 February 2009, 00:39
Very basic piece of journo IMHO. MK 2 was good in it's day but the Mk 5 is easily the best of all to date. Too early to comment on Mk 6 without a good test drive/real world report. Seen a few cars on transporters as well as in dealers and looks very vulnerable with no body protective trim on doors/side panels. Mk 1 was the icon and the Mk 3 and 4 (with all due respect to owners of these cars) are best forgotten about.

Publication would have been better with comparitive stats instead of just a skeletal write up.

Big bumper Mk 2 might make me think about purchasing a project car though : )

Cass