Manual or DSG?

[Ess_Three]

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.

Correct. Offshore Ops Tech, on an oil platform.
No office, no rich family...no inheritance...just hard work.
2 weeks on, 3 off, if you want to be pedantic. Or 140 days a year. 
However, lets not detract from the fact that it'sa job and I have to buy my cars just like the next man...so surely my opinions are as valid as the next man's?

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.

Sainsbury's? Now who has money?
Adsa or Tescos for me.

The Golf GTI is a nice car, yeah.
As current cars go...a very nice one.
Just like my previous two were, I'll imagine.
Not a sportscar, not a Supercar...but a bloody nice car...to use everyday, and do everyday jobs in, like fetch the shopping.

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

I'm sorry...I'm obviously missing the point here...isn't the GTI a trim level of the Golf range.
So it's a Golf?
...and since it'll be my money buying one, and me driving one, fetching my shopping in it...it'll be my shopping car.
Why does that offend you so much?

[Ess_Three]

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   

Why is that so, in your mind?
If the car you are buying is to be used to scoot about, shopping, visiting, doing the school run etc...why is it not a shopping car?
That's what it'll get used for...therefore that's what it is.

What exaclty does a GTI morph into over and above a 1.6 Golf, when GTI badges are fitted?


 

she does the shopping in her 3.0 a4 so does that make that a shopping car too?
 

If you asked her, I'd say it would.
Or would you take exception to her saying that?
 

[FamilyDub]

What does all this have to do with a 'Manual or DSG' thread...? 

[matchboy]

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   

Why is that so, in your mind?
If the car you are buying is to be used to scoot about, shopping, visiting, doing the school run etc...why is it not a shopping car?
That's what it'll get used for...therefore that's what it is.

What exaclty does a GTI morph into over and above a 1.6 Golf, when GTI badges are fitted?


 

she does the shopping in her 3.0 a4 so does that make that a shopping car too?
 

If you asked her, I'd say it would.
Or would you take exception to her saying that?
 

because by saying that its a shopping car implys that the car has been bought primarily to do the shopping.  which neither of our cars are.  that's one of its many uses.  my gti should therefore be a 'going to work car' by your reasoning because that's where i'm going the majority of the time.  if i thought of it like that why would i spend 28k instead of buying a 10k piece of sh1t.  i bet you're the kind of person that thinks that a car is to get you from A to B?!  

and a gti is different in so many ways to a 1.6, not just the badge  

[matchboy]

What does all this have to do with a 'Manual or DSG' thread...? 

absolutely nothing 

and even though there is a heated discussion about 'shopping cars' its all ready been decided that a manual is best 

[FamilyDub]

What does all this have to do with a 'Manual or DSG' thread...? 

absolutely nothing 

and even though there is a heated discussion about 'shopping cars' its all ready been decided that a manual is best 

+1 

[Ess_Three]

because by saying that its a shopping car implys that the car has been bought primarily to do the shopping.  which neither of our cars are.

...but mine has. Hence, shopping car.

 that's one of its many uses.  my gti should therefore be a 'going to work car' by your reasoning because that's where i'm going the majority of the time.
 if i thought of it like that why would i spend 28k instead of buying a 10k piece of sh1t.  

Call it what you like.
spend what you like.
I'll not loose sleep over it.

i bet you're the kind of person that thinks that a car is to get you from A to B?!  

You couldn't be further from the truth...
A look at my car history will tell you that.
But, you believe what you want.

and a gti is different in so many ways to a 1.6, not just the badge  

But it's still a Golf isn't it?

Anyway, sorry for going off topic.

[Ess_Three]

What does all this have to do with a 'Manual or DSG' thread...? 

absolutely nothing 

and even though there is a heated discussion about 'shopping cars' its all ready been decided that a manual is best 

+1 

Correct. Be it for fetching the shopping or going to work...manual it is.

[matchboy]

...but mine has. Hence, shopping car.

i believe you implied that all gti's were shopping cars.  if yours is for that then fine.  but for others its not (pretty much everyone else).  a gti is not a shopping car.  your gti is a shopping car.

glad that's cleared up -excellent discussion though, you can't beat a heated debate!! 

[VWKev]

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.

I'f I wanted a Taxi I'd hail one for a few quid, I'm not in the habit of spending £1500 for one.