Worst GTI/ED30 Insults.......

[crisis123]

Some little squirt at work made the comment:

"Golf GTis are  normally bought by 40 year old men trying to look cool".

This coming from a 22 year old who really does think he is cool driving a Citroen Saxo VTR, and i'm not even 40.

[AlanD]

Someone in a Saxo VTR making a snidy comment about a MK5 GTI . . brilliant. Hope you told him to jog on

[illyun]

But illyun, for the amount of money you have spent modding the MK5 you could have bought a BMW

I know I get that too.... but I love VWs and DON'T like BMWs and yes I have driven them before.  But I'd like to see the M3 on a 1/4 mile stretch against a modded Ed30 - no faster methinks... The only car I'd consider beyond my Golf GTI is the Nissan GT-R (if they sort them transmission issues out) and a Porsche 911    When I spent £20k on my wife's R32 last December, I could have got plenty of other performance manchines with that money but still chose a Golf  

[andrewparker]

Recently one of the guys I work with decided he wanted to buy an additional car that was more for him (rather than taking into consideration the needs of his family), something he could have a bit of fun in. So I suggested we go and test drive a Pirelli or R32, to which I got the reply; "but it's just a Golf isn't it, I don't want a VW". I was slightly surprised when he turned up one day in a used 136bhp diesel powered Audi A6 Avant. I personally can't think of anything quite so boring.

So I took him for a ride in my GTi, and ever since he has been looking into remaps for the A6. I don't have the heart to tell him he ain't going to get the performance of a GTi no matter what he does!

[garethmk1]

When I first bought my Gti, some of my friends didn't even ask me what it was like or care! Jealous cnuts!
They just turned there nose up at it!

ditto

[Egbutt Wash]

Only praise for the GTI .
The gearbox is a thing of wonder.

The only negative comments were regarding VW products in general (from VW owners); the thin soft paint, the shoddy attention to corrosion and the poor reliability record.  All of which I agree with.

Still don't know of a car that gets less jokes, snide remarks and insults than the GTI. 

To other Mk5'ers I ask "Why didn't you buy the GTI?" 
Yet to hear a good reason other than poverty.

[ifti]

Poor reliability record??!!!?

[Teutonic_Tamer]

Poor reliability record??!!!?

I think the real problem is with the lack of competence by some of the VW stealers.  They are often known in sending a car out with more faults than when it went in. 

[RandomJord]

Pleased as punch i took it to the pub to show my mates, and some old coot came out an said......'couldnt afford the golf then?'  

LOL ! I've used that before on my mates LCR !! haha !

I think every owner of an LCR has had that said to them 

It was easier when the mk5 hadnt come out, with mk4s used to be able to say, yeah, 225bhp....golf.....180 max!

[wellzee]

When I first bought my Gti, some of my friends didn't even ask me what it was like or care! Jealous cnuts!
They just turned there nose up at it!

I had this response, but just know that their silence speaks more than anything! Unfortunately however, they are usually not so silent about ur owning a gti when you are not in their presence! but o wel jealousy is food to a gti owner!