Golf gti ,which was the greatest generation

[JoeGTI]

I'm guessing the editor of that wasn't a bit GTI fan as he put a glop of the Mk6 in in place of the Mk7 at 7:00 minutes. 

Haha eagle eyed  must admit it took me a couple of rewinds to see what you mean 

[Mk7-GTD]

I'm guessing the editor of that wasn't a bit GTI fan as he put a glop of the Mk6 in in place of the Mk7 at 7:00 minutes. 

Haha eagle eyed  must admit it took me a couple of rewinds to see what you mean 

Two GTI's I haven't had, Mk1 because I was too young(born in '71) and a Mk7 but I could also mention the Mk6 but my wife had one of them up to the week before last.

I agree with the guy in the video about the Mk3/4 although the Mk4 he was driving had 4motion wheels and he didn't say whether it was a 150 or 180bhp.

I do have a personal love for the Mk2 especially in oak green and preferably small bumper, possibly G60 arches but everything else standard.

[LRWmotorsport]

MK2.

[dubber36]

The Mk2 is a brilliant little car.

Yes, it feels incredibly dated by modern standards, but then again, so do 1980's mobile phones. You could still talk to other people on them tho'. They did exactly what they were supposed to do, just like the Golf.

[mjh_056]

Pretty much in step with the rest of board, the MK V is where they really got it right, the front grill is completely spot on.

This statement might go against the board though as have seen certain MK 6 that have really turned my head with the constant being bespoke wheels. IE: An immaculate white MK 6 GTI with some Black BBS Wheels parked locally 

Quite like the MK 6 R also. So some unexpected love for the MK 6

[Bullfinch]

In its day the Mk2 especially in 16v flavour was something else.  You have to remember back in mid 80's there were no turbo diesels so it did rule the roost in its sector.  In 2016 the car market has so many cars/options it's hard for a GTi to stand out like it did in the 80's.  Also as we know from Mk4 onwards the GTi is no longer the top Golf.  OK back in Mk2 days there was the G60 but if memory serves me right these are all LHD so not exactly something I would want when trying to overtake on a normal A/B road.  Hence to conclude my winner is Mk2 16v Oak Green, big bumper and BBS alloys.

[andrewparker]

For me it would be MK5 first, then MK7, possibly MK2 3rd (purely down to its timeless looks, as I've never actually driven one).
The MK5 was my first GTI and I really loved that car. While the MK7 is arguably better in every way I don't think it's as much fun as the MK5 was in its heyday.

I agree 100%. I owned a MK5 GTI for 6 years and absolutely loved it. Still miss it to this day and often harbour thoughts of buying one, but I know it would probably seem a bit slow alongside my R. A MK2 would be great, but good ones are very hard to come by nowadays.

I think there's a huge rose-tinted nostalgia with the older cars too. Have you ever sat in a MK4 or hell, even a MK5 recently? As much as I love the MK5, it does feel rather dated now when you sit into one, if you are used to the newer stuff. You're far more cosseted in the mk7 cabin.

As I said, I've never driven a mk2, but I can't imagine using one as a daily driver. A great car it was for sure, but in the modern era it's bound to feel very very old.

Yeah, I'm lucky enough to have owned a Golf of every generation in one form or another, with the exception of the MK6. I remember thinking the MK5 felt a bit cheap after the MK4, but the MK1 and MK2 were rarely enjoyable unless you had perfectly smooth, flat roads. Less said of the MK3 the better, it was my first Golf and it was awful, quickly got moved on for a MK2 1.8 Driver which I loved, despite the accelerator frequently sticking when fully depressed!

As Alex said in the video, the MK7 is an incredibly complete car, it's hard to know how they'd improve it IMO.

[andrewparker]

Quite like the MK 6 R also. So some unexpected love for the MK 6

I really like the MK6, but I owned a MK5 GTI at the time it came out, and it really didn't offer many reasons to change. Same chassis, barely any more powerful, nicer place to sit but fairly similar standard spec.

[Talk-torque]

Guess a lot of this depends on how you define great, but the Mk 1 GTI defined a whole genre of cars, so there must be a degree of greatness there!

Whoever had the idea is a true Great! I had a Mk1 Cortina GT around the end of the '60s, which had about 80 bhp from memory and had the same sporty accents, but it was a much bigger, heavier car, so the performance and handling were not close.

Without the Mk 1, none of the others, plus all the competition, would exist.

[dubber36]

Hence to conclude my winner is Mk2 16v Oak Green, big bumper and BBS alloys.

Do I win a prize?