This is why I like the car. To a lot of people, people I don't want thinking I'm some sort of mad tearaway, it's a Golf. To others, who understand these things, it's something else.
(On another forum, a MkIV owner described it as "that rocket sled Rolfe drives.")
I've been ferrying some friends around during the snow, thanks to the winter tyres, and it was "just a Golf". Then the daughter of one of the friends was visiting when I picked her up. Apparently my arrival caused major consternation, as in "Is that the person who's picking you up? That is an amazing car."
It's all good clean fun.
Rolfe.