How many times a week do your friends/family tell/ask you ...

[dubber36]

I've bought new cars, and still have 2 newish cars, but no other car puts a smile on my face like my Mk2.

Just looking at it does it for me.

[theclash]

  here here im with rubberdubber 

       HATE NEW CARS...........        BORING

[UKjarvis]

My missus hates my mk2 she want's a new car.

Until she learns to drive she's banned from hurtfull words against her or SHE's WALKING.

[Ben Lessani]

LOL So its not just me then! Does my head in - its not like new cars are free from problems! Infact, my dad - who always moans about my car has a Merc jeep just outside of warranty and since then its needed a new xenon bulb (£160), every injector replaced (£600), around 4 million replacements on disks and pads ($4.5bn Ugandan dollars). His car does 25 mpg, mine does 44 mpg and is faster

When my car isn't broke (5 or 6 days a year), I love it! You see tonnes of mini's, clios, corsa's etc - I've seen 2 MK2 golfs in the past 3 months.

My car gives me cool points















(Saying the above cost me cool points :embarassed:)

[richard s]

no one says it to me but i often think it for a little bit but then i come round because deep down i never want to get rid of this car

[Rodriguez]

Everyone I know 'understands'   

[Oilburner]

Yesterday, I spent at least 8 hours on my Mk2 trying to sort the blowing exhuast. Much swearing and getting very irritated "why did I buy this F****** stupid car", but then in the afternoon when it was all sorted and sounding sweet!!! I went for a drive with a friend in his FRP down some beautifull roads over watership down (near newbury) and I remembered exactly why I bought my Mk2 and why I spend so much time fixing it (when it does not always realy need fixing  ).

When I later explained this resoning with the missus when she asked "why I bothered?" she just couldnt understand. When I have similar conversations with other people they are the same, and cannot grasp why I would spend so much time working on a 20 year old Golf for the sole purpose of driving it, when I have a 4 year old Golf sat on the drive which is surely much better?

[overdrive]

My old boy rather irritatingly pointed out that i'd be financially better off if i actually HIRED a sports car on a yearly basis rather than spending money on old buckets like i do but... wheres the fun in that?

[danny_p]

thing is  mk2'sppl told me to buy a newer car, i did   i killed it that hapend every time i listend so i don't anymore

to date there have only been 23 occasions where my mk2 hasent got me home and two of them happend within walking distance of home 10K  miles of been used as toy has killed every car i've tryed other than mk2 golfs,  and when the old man used to have to have pug 406's as company car  the mk2 was more relable than them some days it would complain,   and it'd smoke and rattel when cold or to hot  but it'd done 170k  but inortantly it allways went  unlike the 406

[Diamond Hell]

My family gave up and shut up a long time ago.

They even came to a track day last year.

It's just a matter of conditioning.  The older you are, the more people around you become accustomed to your ways