Manual or DSG?

[matchboy]

 but aren't ready to admit defeat and buy a Picasso just yet.


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that will never happen 

[VWKev]

s3, if you really liked driving you wouldn't buy a VW Golf.
The steering is just not up to finesse.

Why not?
If you wanted something pratcical for the shopping run/school run, but something you can take out on the backroads for a bit of fun at weekends?

Or maybe you have something silly for weekends...and need something practical for during the week, but aren't ready to admit defeat and buy a Picasso just yet.

I still cant get my head round this, and dont want to take it off topic but I have to ask. If a £23k Golf GTI without extras, is classed as shopping run, shool run and bit of fun car, then what are cars at £10k-£15k classed as ? (and dont say sh!t)

[Ess_Three]

that will never happen 

Snap!

[Ess_Three]

I still cant get my head round this, and dont want to take it off topic but I have to ask. If a £23k Golf GTI without extras, is classed as shopping run, shool run and bit of fun car, then what are cars at £10k-£15k classed as ? (and dont say sh!t)

A Golf GTI at £28600 is still a shopping car to me...as that's what I'll do in it.
It's not in any way related to cost...it's what you buy it for.

You buy a Elise/Exige/911 etc for weekend fun (a sportscar)...
You buy a GTI to drive to work, take the kids to school and fetch the shopping.
You buy a people carrier when you have no desire to live any more.
Simples.

A £10-15k car is likely to be a smaller shopping car, older fancier car or less well specced shopping car.
Does it matter?
A Golf is a Golf...regardless of what you think the badge tells you...it's a Golf.
A car most people will use everyday to go to work in and fetch the shopping in.
Therefore, making it a shopping car.

Just a shopping car a step up from some of the sh!te out there.

[VWKev]

I still cant get my head round this, and dont want to take it off topic but I have to ask. If a £23k Golf GTI without extras, is classed as shopping run, shool run and bit of fun car, then what are cars at £10k-£15k classed as ? (and dont say sh!t)

A Golf GTI at £28600 is still a shopping car to me...as that's what I'll do in it.
It's not in any way related to cost...it's what you buy it for.

You buy a Elise/Exige/911 etc for weekend fun (a sportscar)...
You buy a GTI to drive to work, take the kids to school and fetch the shopping.
You buy a people carrier when you have no desire to live any more.
Simples.

A £10-15k car is likely to be a smaller shopping car, older fancier car or less well specced shopping car.
Does it matter?
A Golf is a Golf...regardless of what you think the badge tells you...it's a Golf.
A car most people will use everyday to go to work in and fetch the shopping in.
Therefore, making it a shopping car.

Just a shopping car a step up from some of the sh!te out there.

Well for me personally, I've never had a great amount of money growing up and only in the part 15 years or so I have been able to start living at a decent standard. I appreciate money more and the value of it. I'm proud to now be in a comfortable position to own a GTI, so when I see people say its 'Just a Golf' or 'Its a shopping run car' it f**kin riles me, but I think I get it now, there's some people out there that are spoon fed spoilt thingys and have probably never worked a day in their life, or are lucky enough to have a high paid pen pusher job that they have lost all track of reality and can discredit the GTI so easily. Just because you and others think thats what the car is, doesnt make it so, some people including myself have worked hard as f**k to get one. Count yourself lucky you have one and possibly more than one car, the snob nosed arrogance is oozing out of some people here its ridiculous, others are not as lucky and its an achievement owning one including myself.

[Hairy Porter]

On Order : GTI mk6, 3dr Manual, Candy White, Full Leather, Xenons, ACC, 18", RCD510 + Dynaudio, DAB Radio, Winter Pack, Luxury Pack. - Build Week 39

You missed DSG from the list.  A man who really understood money would not have Full Leather, Xenons, ACC, 18", RCD510 + Dynaudio, DAB Radio, Winter Pack, Luxury Pack.

[Ess_Three]

Well for me personally, I've never had a great amount of money growing up and only in the part 15 years or so I have been able to start living at a decent standard. I appreciate money more and the value of it. I'm proud to now be in a comfortable position to own a GTI, so when I see people say its 'Just a Golf' or 'Its a shopping run car' it f**kin riles me, but I think I get it now, there's some people out there that are spoon fed spoilt thingys and have probably never worked a day in their life, or are lucky enough to have a high paid pen pusher job that they have lost all track of reality and can discredit the GTI so easily. Just because you and others think thats what the car is, doesnt make it so, some people including myself have worked hard as f**k to get one. Count yourself lucky you have one and possibly more than one car, the snob nosed arrogance is oozing out of some people here its ridiculous, others are not as lucky and its an achievement owning one including myself.

Well since that was a thinly veiled attempt at having a dig at me...let me educate you:

I put a boiler suit on and get covered in crap every day working 12-15 hour shifts, for 2 weeks. Then I have some time off, and have done so for the last 20 years whilst some people on here will still sucking on mummy's nipples.

So, no pen pushing, no suit, no office, no spoon fed, no rich family (folks have a Golf 'shopping car' too..oh, and a Polo...so that probably makes them Royalty in your book) just a desire to get an apprenticeship, get a job working hard outside, often on nightshift, in February, in 80 Knot winds and driving snow...to enable me to buy nice cars - so from that point of view, I can hold whatever opinion I like, don't you think?

Or is that not allowed because you have decided something else without knowing anything about people who dare to hold a different view?

You could call my opinions arrogant, I call it saying how I see it.
I could accuse your opinion of delusions of grandeur.
The car is, after all, a Golf...it it not?

[R32UK]

I agree its only a car after all.. 

We all work hard im sure but lets keep to the topic at hand

[VWKev]

Well for me personally, I've never had a great amount of money growing up and only in the part 15 years or so I have been able to start living at a decent standard. I appreciate money more and the value of it. I'm proud to now be in a comfortable position to own a GTI, so when I see people say its 'Just a Golf' or 'Its a shopping run car' it f**kin riles me, but I think I get it now, there's some people out there that are spoon fed spoilt thingys and have probably never worked a day in their life, or are lucky enough to have a high paid pen pusher job that they have lost all track of reality and can discredit the GTI so easily. Just because you and others think thats what the car is, doesnt make it so, some people including myself have worked hard as f**k to get one. Count yourself lucky you have one and possibly more than one car, the snob nosed arrogance is oozing out of some people here its ridiculous, others are not as lucky and its an achievement owning one including myself.

Well since that was a thinly veiled attempt at having a dig at me...let me educate you:

I put a boiler suit on and get covered in crap every day working 12-15 hour shifts, for 2 weeks. Then I have some time off, and have done so for the last 20 years whilst some people on here will still sucking on mummy's nipples.

So, no pen pushing, no suit, no office, no spoon fed, no rich family (folks have a Golf 'shopping car' too..oh, and a Polo...so that probably makes them Royalty in your book) just a desire to get an apprenticeship, get a job working hard outside, often on nightshift, in February, in 80 Knot winds and driving snow...to enable me to buy nice cars - so from that point of view, I can hold whatever opinion I like, don't you think?

Or is that not allowed because you have decided something else without knowing anything about people who dare to hold a different view?

You could call my opinions arrogant, I call it saying how I see it.
I could accuse your opinion of delusions of grandeur.
The car is, after all, a Golf...it it not?

Sounds like Oil rig work or other off shore work going by those shifts, isnt that something like 2 weeks on and countless weeks off ? I'd love to work 3 months out of a year.

Ahh so now your buying nice cars. That is more of a respectful way of describing it, rather than a f**kin shopping cart to take to Sainsburys.

If it was a golf, then the GTI wouldnt exist, so no, its not a Golf.

I surely cant be the only one that has these views ?

[matchboy]

I still cant get my head round this, and dont want to take it off topic but I have to ask. If a £23k Golf GTI without extras, is classed as shopping run, shool run and bit of fun car, then what are cars at £10k-£15k classed as ? (and dont say sh!t)

You buy a people carrier when you have no desire to live any more.

Therefore, making it a shopping car.

first point - correct.  anyone who buys a picasso etc is a loser who is happy with his lot in life, ie driving at 60mph and being overtaken by micras.

second point - utter sh1te.  a 28k car is not a shopping car.  a 1.6 golf is a shopping car. a gti is not.  i certainly don't do the shopping in mine, that's the missus job    but then she does the shopping in her 3.0 a4 so does that make that a shopping car too?