i got into vw's at 14 when my dad bought a £20 camper for a cheap car to get him to work. had a string of beetles and a couple of golfs. the thing that strikes me about the vw scene (the golf scene in particular) is that you rarely see a chav tractor vw. most modified vw's end up looking classy. there are millions of saxo's round here with stupid stick on plastic bits and huge exhausts and you dont seem to get that with the vw scene. thereis a young kid round here with a lupo. started off standard, he slammed it, slapped on some bbs wheels and is now midway through a smoothing job. it is going to look really subte when its done.
my mate is into his fords(he had a 2 door mk3 cortina about to have extensive surgery to look like a 70's eurocar with a huge yank v8. its going to be one mental, albeit ugly car!) dont get me wrong, i do have a soft spot for fords but the scene seems full of either old men with far too much money of the original essex boys who have now grown up but are still driving rs turbo kitted escort vans!
think i have gone off tangent a bit here but my point is the vw scene is friendly, the cars are cool and understated. there's just a bit of class in a golf gti rather than an xr or rs or whatever
