« Reply #22 on: 11 August 2020, 13:46 »
Welcome aboard donteatthat Simon (love the user name!)
Going to a GTI from a TT is a good way of easing yourself into parenthood without completely abandoning an appreciation of cars.
In previous generations of Golf I’d have said the utterly predictable “buy a pram to fit your boot and not the other way round”, but the mk7 seems to have a lot less useable boot space going from my suitcase test (which involves seeing how much luggage I can squeeze in the boot ten minutes before I need to get my derrière on the road heading towards Gatwick).
Having owned Golfs since forever I am somewhat familiar with their boots and I think the mk7 is far from the most capacious even if the official litres measurements say otherwise.
When my first child noisily arrived in 1995 (he literally didn’t sleep through the night until he was nearly five!) I had a mk2 Golf GTI. That had plenty of room in the cargo hold for the pram and other gear. Because I couldn’t go anywhere or do anything anymore I’d saved enough for a ropey Golf VR6 within a period of time.
However life rarely pans out how you plan it and I ended up driving 130 miles in a rented Fiat Cinqacento to buy a Polo G40.
Now a Polo G40 is tiny inside. But I coped just fine.
My parents had a mk1 and then a mk2 Polo when my little sis was born. They too coped just fine although I didn’t appreciate sharing the back seat with a squawking baby in a carrycot at times because the volume tended to go up a lot!
Moral of the story: you don’t need a massive car to carry a tiny baby.
Buy the smallest pram you can, you’ll thank yourself many times over and it’s less to trip over in the hallway.
Having said that, I also like Simon dubber’s suggestion of the Passat 240 TDI. A remapped one of those would be massive fun and your in-laws would love you for appearing eminently sensible and responsible.
Don’t buy a GTD estate 😴😴 unless you’re going to remap it and put huge wheels on it.
Oh, and I did manage to buy a VR6 in the end. In fact I bought two over a period of time. They were both a bit crap actually. The mk3 Golf was a turd. I do hope the mk8 doesn’t follow suit.
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‘25 8.5R, ‘23 8R, ‘20 8CS, ‘19 135iX, ‘19 TCR, ‘17 Ed40, ‘17 GTD, ‘15 7R, ‘13 GTI PP, ‘11 GTI, ‘09 GTI, ‘98 Ibiza Cupra, ‘05 GTI, ‘06 Polo GTI, ‘04 GT TDI, ‘05 Fabia vRS, ‘02 GTI T, ‘03 Ibiza TDI 130, ‘01 Leon 180, ‘89 mk2 16v, ‘99 Ibiza TDI, ‘96 VR6, ‘98 Ibiza TDI, ‘92 VR6, ‘88 mk2 8v, ‘92 Polo G40, ‘91 mk2 8v, ‘89 mk2 8v, 205 GTI 1.9, ‘83 mk1 GTI, ‘80 Scirocco GTI, plus some others I’ve forgotten
