SHOCKED! a formal article of hatred for the mk2, comparing to an Allegro!! why

[dub-addict]

I came accross this link on google and i was shocked but ended up reading the whole thing.

http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/2011/08/08/overhyped-and-over-here-volkswagen-golf-mk2/

[The Mighty Elvi]

What do you expect from a British Leyland fanboy website. 



"They’re a common sight on the roads today, and modified to boot – and rust resistance and build quality ensure depressing longevity. It really is Volkswagen’s Allegro, and I really would prefer to own a Longbridge pudding. Or even a Maestro…"

He defeats his own argument with the first few words of his closing paragraph.   

How many Allegro's do you see on the road. 

Tosser.

I rest my case.

[dub-addict]

It was mentioned several times that the mk2 was fat compared to the mk1, yeah yeah we know but get over it!!  The mk2 is still Tiny and light compared to every other modern car..even todays polo is heavier.

I love looking at my mk2 slammed, parked between 2 modern hatches, so tiny and simple compared to the new duller offerings

[jamie16v]

so funny, i always saw austins and rovers ect as gimps cars. only a select few took my wish list.. metro gti with k-series 1800 vvc and a classic mini being one of them and even most of them are in the rusters...
take a look around i remember seeing maestro`s, montego`s metro`s like it was yesterday.. now i don`t see any.. there is just one montego near me which i rarely see and it`s on its last legs.
i would love to have an allegro though, not that i like them at all, just to say i have a museum piece, remember my dad had one and it was a proper shed..
another sh!t car i would love to add to my collection is a skoda estelle.. i remember my grandad had one from new in 85 on an E plate.. it was an awesome piece of sh!t, it just had character lol..

[dub-addict]

another sh!t car i would love to add to my collection is a skoda estelle.. i remember my grandad had one from new in 85 on an E plate.. it was an awesome piece of sh!t, it just had character lol..

yeah I would also like to add the Skoda Favorit to that list 

one of the last hatches skoda made before they became part of VAG lol my dad bought one new in the early 90's not knowing much about cars, he thought it was brilliant .. just becasue it was new I imagine. and he came from an earlier skoda with the engine in the rear,so it may just have been the improvment over that which convinced him  .. cant remember the name of that one, but it was equally sh!t. had to lie in the back seat as not to be seen by my mates when being driven to school 

[The Mighty Elvi]

I love looking at my mk2 slammed, parked between 2 modern hatches, so tiny and simple compared to the new duller offerings

Has a downside though.  Its quite hard to spot in a carpark.

 

[Hurdy]

As far as I'm concerned it is an over-presumptuous article written by a person who obviously hasn't a clue about other marques and their heritage. He compares iconic cars like the MKII Golf to Leyland sheds that were badly designed and built between strikes and deservedly went the way of the dinosaur a long time ago. 

[jamie16v]

yeah I would also like to add the Skoda Favorit to that list 

he had one of them too  :embarassed:

 he came from an earlier skoda with the engine in the rear,cant remember the name of that one, but it was equally sh!t.

yeah thats the estelle..
he had about five skodas since the estelle, he swore by them, perhaps it was the much cheapness.
he had an :
estelle E plate
favorit G plate
felicia N plate (i wrote it off 5 weeks after passing my test)
another felicia N plate to replace it
and a fabia on a 51 which my dad now owns as grandpa has hung the keys due to macular degeneration. 

[antogoof]

ive never heard such ollocks.

it makes me laugh how arseholes can be so removed from the real world.

if bl built proper cars in the first place they wunt have gone bump.

what a cock.

[danny_p]

BL never made a good car, they had a few good ideas  to be fair  but allways managed to cock them up royaly usally with really shonkey build quality.  and the cars were sat around that long in between strikes they were allready rusty before leaveing the factory