By the way, today's
Sunday Herald has a feature on the Mk VI GTi on the back page. Lovely picture of a white 5-door with shadow-trim wheels. Excellent review.
Goes into quite a lot of detail about what's the same as the Mk V and what's been upgraded. Doesn't have a bad word to say about the car, actually. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be included in the online edition, so I can't link to it.
The fifth-generation car was a storming return to form for the famous brand after shaky efforts of the Mk III and the Mk IV. As an improvement and refinement of this winning formula, it's hard to see how the Mk VI could mess things up.
The Golf GTi revels in its status as the founding father of the hot hatchback genre and it isn't about to lower itself by indulging in the lurid colour schemes and tea-tray spoilers favoured by its lower brow rivals. Therefore its looks are comparatively low-key and classy, much like a standard model but with a soupcon of extra aggression bubbling under the surface.
There's a feeling of genuine class in the cabin that no other peformance hatch, save for Audi's prohibitively expensive S3, can match. [....] The desirability and quality of the Golf GTi are likely to keep demand high and residuals firm.
Comfortable enough to drive every day but with the talent to bewitch when the mood takes you and the right road presents itself, it's the hot hatch for the modern era.
I didn't think it was worth starting a thread about it since you can only read it in the dead-tree paper, but it's a nice article.
Rolfe.
