« Reply #18 on: 10 March 2013, 11:01 »
I actually think the 3 door mk5 and mk6 are ugly but wouldn't spend thousands on changing a good spec model that has a low mileage for a 5 door just to get the extra doors (admittedly it is frustrating that it's the one thing that you really can't retrofit
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When your kids are small, as said here, it's actually easier to get them in and out of a 3 door, and safer when they get a bit bigger. It's when they get to teenage years that it becomes easier to fold them in and out of a 5 door. Having said that they should still be flexible enough to bend in and out of a 3 door even then, assuming you haven't spent too much time filling them with horse burgers and fries (in which case you can probably just roll them everywhere...)
The amount of times I've seen on forums over the last 12 years or so I've messed about on the things where people suddenly panic and think they've got to buy a car the size of an oil tanker just because their wife has developed a bump in her tummy a couple of months after a heavy night on the Martinis.
People managed perfectly well with Austin Minis when I was a kid so a mk5/6 Golf is a different world in safety and space from that.
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