What I have noticed is its mainly mk2 owners that spread the hate about how bad a car the mk3 is.
Hey, don't pull that one out - I've owned quite a number of G3s over the past few years.
Crushed every single one of the f*ckers once I've removed the ABF goodness to go into a G2.
Hybridisation is the name of the game - you take something good and then selectively add the good thing from something else to create a single item with hybrid vigour. I give you the ABFed Golf2 (or VR6 if you're some sort of anti-handling goon).
The important thing is you jettison the rubbish to create the glorious hybrid.
By rubbish I mean the Golf3 shell and everything aside from the engine and gearbox really.
