« Reply #43 on: 30 October 2016, 13:44 »
For a sensible person or anyone with a company car allowance that doesn't run into silly amounts then the GTD is a very compelling buy.
The R is popular because of it's relative affordability compared to the GTI taking into account the extra 80PS and driven axle.
However when I had my GTI I hardly saw any about but they're getting a lot more prolific in numbers now. I have one about 100 yards from me as the crow flies at home. Well, more likely a pigeon as there seems to be more of those than crows around here.
Plus I see numerous ones on my daily commute, nearly as many now as R's. GTI's that is, not pigeons or crows.
People moan about GTDs and R's being too common which I find odd.
Golfs are popular cars full stop and you see lots of them about in general. They're probably one of the biggest selling hatchbacks nowadays and when I think back to the mk2 Golf heydays 20% or so of all Golf sales were GTI's.
Performance Golfs were never meant to be exclusive and just because there are lots of them around doesn't devalue them - in fact there's always a healthy second hand demand which keeps depreciation fairly steady on all the models of Golf.
Obviously not CSS's as they're hewn from solid (but special extra lightweight) gold so will only ever appreciate
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