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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: mac7 on 07 April 2010, 17:03

Title: What do you think of this?
Post by: mac7 on 07 April 2010, 17:03
Changing the grille for one from a standard Golf:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4480767474_5a298b9cef_b.jpg)

I guess the red lines are a big visual marker for the GTI...
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: AlanD on 07 April 2010, 17:23
Doesnt actually look that bad, but the GTI one is nicer IMO.

Bare in mind that car is also dropped and sitting on different wheels. Put that grille on a standard GTI and I think it would look cack.
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: Hartside on 07 April 2010, 17:55
Certainly gives it a stealth look. I prefer the GTi one though
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: FroGTI on 07 April 2010, 18:18
If you cover up the 'good bits' on the photo with your hands, the grill looks as if it came from a bog standard TDI.
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: AlanD on 07 April 2010, 19:31
If you cover up the 'good bits' on the photo with your hands, the grill looks as if it came from a bog standard TDI.

Ermmmm I might have lost the sarcasm through interweb translation but, It does from from a standard TDI lol . . .
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: Jimble on 07 April 2010, 19:40
Not for me thanks :sick:
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: ajmoir36 on 07 April 2010, 19:43
Doesn't the R grill just look the same?
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: gizzywizzy on 07 April 2010, 20:28
Doesn't the R grill just look the same?

 :smiley:
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: p3eps on 07 April 2010, 20:37
Doesn't the R grill just look the same?

Same thing I think - but thankfully VW had the sense to re-design the dull GTI front bumper and come up with something a bit more interesting and less black for the R.
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: mac7 on 08 April 2010, 00:23
Doesn't the R grill just look the same?

The R grille is similar, but with wider gaps and thinner slats. And of course it goes faster  :wink:
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: RickS on 08 April 2010, 07:14
Takes away some of the special appeal of the GTI, nowhere near as good as the original. VW spend millions on research to get the "look", you won't better it by adding or removing bits.
Sorry, just my humble opinion. :nerd:
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: AlanD on 08 April 2010, 10:36
Takes away some of the special appeal of the GTI, nowhere near as good as the original. VW spend millions on research to get the "look", you won't better it by adding or removing bits.
Sorry, just my humble opinion. :nerd:

So any modded car with diffrent wheels etc looks worse?

Its all a matter of opinion.
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: BrigGTi on 08 April 2010, 11:33
Quote from: RickS on Today at 07:14
Takes away some of the special appeal of the GTI, nowhere near as good as the original. VW spend millions on research to get the "look", you won't better it by adding or removing bits.
Sorry, just my humble opinion.


So any modded car with diffrent wheels etc looks worse?


I think so.  Don't think there are any better wheels than that of the 18" Monza'a and haven't seen anything on the market that will better the standard MKVI.  No cosmetic changes for me I'm afraid  :smiley:
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: RickS on 10 April 2010, 06:23
Takes away some of the special appeal of the GTI, nowhere near as good as the original. VW spend millions on research to get the "look", you won't better it by adding or removing bits.
Sorry, just my humble opinion. :nerd:

So any modded car with diffrent wheels etc looks worse?

Its all a matter of opinion.

Yes AlanD, it is a matter of taste/opinion to some extent, but overall you will not improve the look of a MK6 GTI by adding different wheels or modding by fitting a different grille etc. If you want your GTI to look like a boy racer car then fine, do the mods.
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: p3asa on 10 April 2010, 13:17
Yes AlanD, it is a matter of taste/opinion to some extent, but overall you will not improve the look of a MK6 GTI by adding different wheels or modding by fitting a different grille etc. If you want your GTI to look like a boy racer car then fine, do the mods.

In other words just follow the sheep and be like every other GTI on the road?
Hats off to those that want to be different is what I say  :smiley:
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: am1w on 10 April 2010, 13:23
Yes AlanD, it is a matter of taste/opinion to some extent, but overall you will not improve the look of a MK6 GTI by adding different wheels or modding by fitting a different grille etc. If you want your GTI to look like a boy racer car then fine, do the mods.
In other words just follow the sheep and be like every other GTI on the road?
Hats off to those that want to be different is what I say  :smiley:

Yes but, no but, yes but, no but ......! :laugh:
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: DDRFan on 10 April 2010, 22:46
if my opinion is worth anything around here, i don't think it looks that bad, it just looks like a normal Golf, the normal car looks reasonably pleasing. and it has that 'stealth' look that won't attract attention as much.

and it's your own car, you should just do what you want to do it. Does the opinion of others really matter that much? it's like if you asked me if a girl you fancied looked hot. to me the girl might look like a complete bag and i would say you should avoid her like the plague. But you might really fancy the girl and ignore my opinion and ask her for a date anyway, and you might have a really good relationship with her.
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: Jimble on 10 April 2010, 22:56
if my opinion is worth anything around here, i don't think it looks that bad, it just looks like a normal Golf, the normal car looks reasonably pleasing. and it has that 'stealth' look that won't attract attention as much.

and it's your own car, you should just do what you want to do it. Does the opinion of others really matter that much? it's like if you asked me if a girl you fancied looked hot. to me the girl might look like a complete bag and i would say you should avoid her like the plague. But you might really fancy the girl and ignore my opinion and ask her for a date anyway, and you might have a really good relationship with her.

unfortunately your opinion isn't worth anything around here! but i agree with you anyway. :smiley:
Title: Re: What do you think of this?
Post by: andykram on 11 April 2010, 01:33
On a slightly different point, I saw my first R in the flesh yesterday. A silver one.
I've been a critic on here so far of the R but I have to say this looked absolutely beautiful. The owner was in the garden while I pulled up in the GTi having a nosy and he must have felt very proud because it was just gorgeous.
Still not worth £30k though!!!!!!!