Mudflaps

[Ess_Three]

Sorry, they really look awful.

I dissagree...
I like 'em.

So they not only look good...but are functional too. Win-win.

At least on a car used daily, in the UK, in winte..not some poxy show queen.

[am1w]

Sorry everybody but those 'flippers' (Erik's expression) ruin the wheel arch curve.
Not very nice at all and they make the car look frumpy.

[Ess_Three]

Sorry everybody but those 'flippers' (Erik's expression) ruin the wheel arch curve.
Not very nice at all and they make the car look frumpy.

It's not a bloody Ferrari!
It's a Golf...it IS frumpy.   

And if it's a useable, practical everyday car..so what is the uber well designed wheelarch curve gets ruined by some practical plastic?

[am1w]

Sorry everybody but those 'flippers' (Erik's expression) ruin the wheel arch curve.
Not very nice at all and they make the car look frumpy.

It's not a bloody Ferrari!
It's a Golf...it IS frumpy.   
And if it's a useable, practical everyday car..so what is the uber well designed wheelarch curve gets ruined by some practical plastic?

Never mind.
THE FLIPPERS ARE ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS

[ErikGTI]

So they not only look good...but are functional too. Win-win.

At least on a car used daily, in the UK, in winte..not some poxy show queen.
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They look good.... .....are you in the rubber-business or something...

I guess you must be the devil's advocate right now just to upset us...not a designer in the world !! would advise VW to go back to the 70-ties with there design.

The last designer I know got fired for less at BMW ..thank God in the end everything was allright for BMW again because a dutch dude is now resposible for the design and immediately took care of this awfull Type 5 and 6 (M5 excluded )...  

[Ess_Three]

Maybe most Mk6 GTI owners choose to potter round at 20 MPH, in the dry, admiring their immaculately detailed bodywork in the windows of the local wine bars as they drive by...
But in the real world I like in, doing 70 MPH in winter leaves the sides of the car manky in seconds...and stone chipped to hell in months.
So, a set of un-offensive mudflaps (fnarr!) in exchange for a cleaner, non-stonechipped car = worth doing.

It's not like they are the big red sheets of plastic that Subaru drivers have fitted then advertise the fact that they have a sexually transmitter infection, now i it?

Oh, and no, I'm not some up-myself designer...I just want a nice car to drive about in and fetch the shopping in.
If I wanted a design icon, I'd not be looking at a Golf GTI.

[am1w]

Erik:
You disappear for a few days, then come back and start attacking me!
It is you who really hated them with a vengeance and called them 'rubber flippers'!
Then you went on and on about rubber usage!
You cheeky Dutch devil!

[Jimble]

Perhaps they might look a bit nicer if they did a colour coded set?, personally i don't like the look but as Ess_Three says, if function over form is your thing then that's cool too (that's called sitting on the fence!)

[am1w]

Perhaps they might look a bit nicer if they did a colour coded set?, personally i don't like the look but as Ess_Three says, if function over form is your thing then that's cool too (that's called sitting on the fence!)

Here we go again: form over function!

[am1w]

Gizzy:
Having Tiger Prawns tonight!
Caught them in the ENGLISH channel on my way to Germania as I needed to check Golf production.
I am then going to invade Poland and the USSR to open up new markets for VW!
Hope it all works out.
Seems logical.
Some of this is partially in the past!

Apart from my rubber allergy I am also allergic to seafood, so no tiger prawns for me!!  Enjoy you loon you

Gizzy:
Had beef tonight!