Lets talk about Mk2`s :)

[Goops]

Agree with all of the above...
The mk2 holds it against any car, the boss's series 1 beema looks like a joke next to the oak green on splits after a polish
Main thing for me, its like lego! fixes up relatively easy, alot of help online, and you deffo do get respect!

With most clean mk2s on the road, you know the owner has taste and its a car built and being looked after, not like new cars bought from a fat wallet...

Also although there are many mk2 owners on the road, evryone has their individual touch on the car in terms of aesthetics
...not just shiny blue lights on the underside

Oh yeah and when you drop gears around the corners  it does make one

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[Phil8v]

There is certainly something about the mk2 that just seems right. After driving 2 Peugeots a 106 and a 306 both diesel it was time to get a vdub as both my dad and my sister were hooked on them. I looked around at corrados and 'roccos but i kept coming back to the mk 2 golf gti. i spotted my 8v oak green on volkswizard and had to have it and am so glad i did. it was the right colour at the right time at the right price.
I'm just in love with it now. the car is part of me now and like someone said previously you cant help but glance back at it in the car park. just to check shes ok. 

[DarnPB]

Agree with all of the above...
The mk2 holds it against any car, the boss's series 1 beema looks like a joke next to the oak green on splits after a polish
Main thing for me, its like lego! fixes up relatively easy, alot of help online, and you deffo do get respect!

With most clean mk2s on the road, you know the owner has taste and its a car built and being looked after, not like new cars bought from a fat wallet...

Also although there are many mk2 owners on the road, evryone has their individual touch on the car in terms of aesthetics
...not just shiny blue lights on the underside

Oh yeah and when you drop gears around the corners  it does make one

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Goops

I've just noticed. Your sig is arse about face!

[Quattro100]

I am just about to commence with an experiment. November I purchased a Black 5 -door K Plate Mk 2 8 Valve and ever since I have been preparing it for a little shock.
I am going to sell her 04 Corsa Exclusive and give her the keys to this stunning little car.
Maybe she will run off with a man who will buy her a new corsa, but I doubt it. She will learn to love the Mk2 and will never want anything else.
The Mk 2 Golf is the only car that you could do this with - well I hope so anyway.

Will

[dubber36]

Like so many other have said, it's the car I really wanted 20 years ago, but could no way afford. A mate of my Dad had a new one in 88, when I was 18. I told myself that one day I would have a new Golf GTI. I bought a new one in 1999, but it never hit the spot. What I really needed was a Mk2.

It always makes me smile when I drive it, and I dont have to drive quickly to have fun.

I also think they are very cool. There's nothing quite like driving through town in the summer with the sunroof open catching admiring glances from tho's who know.

Cool without trying. If you have to try, you're not cool.

[Skiing]

It is not only an iconic car but also grin-inducingly fun to drive, better built then a lot of much newer cars and faster than a lot of them as well! Am onto my second as my second car and wouldnt want anything else... 

[boxer1968]

my mate was after a mk2 gti 8v in 94 we looked at five he bought one 89 on a g plate thought no more about it then i borrowed it to get to work wow talk about fun he totaled it in 1999 £200 scrap value and i bought it fixed it and still have it today still smile know when i drive it my friends  ask why i dont by something newer, well its fun ,cheap to fix and reliable think most agree

[Jay]

it was cheap on ebay with tax and MOT. 

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mk2s rock because they're cheap, good fun and easy to fix.

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and my family have always been into VW's, mainly Bugs, but my father has had a few Golf's in his time too. I remember his white MK1 'Citi' Golf back in the 80's  Dogs danglies tbh.

[Mew]

when i first joined the RAF a lad who gave me a lift from Aylesbury to Leeds every weekend had bought a brand new 16v Mk2. 

I was smitten as a 16 year old spotty youth - wanted one ever since.  :embarassed:

20 years later, and havin decided to hang up my leathers and quit 2 wheels, here I am   

Replace the bike with kids and that's pretty much the same story as my Dad's!

[dubsport]

they are the sex.

everyone seems to have a fond memory of them, and they just look good from every angle ...