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Offline Overseer

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clubgti... whats up with em?
« on: 24 March 2004, 10:17 »
hope this doesnt cause trouble, its not meant to!

i might be imagining it, but it seems theres a undercurrent of anti clubgti'ness here..

i cant say why i chose this site over clubgti when i was looking into cars, maybe coz we have more of a laff here :)

is there history?
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Offline Gambit

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Re:clubgti... whats up with em?
« Reply #1 on: 24 March 2004, 10:25 »
id use Club GTi when lookin answers on the more technical side of things

whereas here is alot more light hearted

basically clubgti has being going for yonks so has its core members if you know what i mean.

clubgti is a good site for getting the answer you need

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Re:clubgti... whats up with em?
« Reply #2 on: 24 March 2004, 10:41 »
I dont think there is any real rivalry at all, but they did put a few backs up when they were against advertising one of our meets on their site.
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Re:clubgti... whats up with em?
« Reply #3 on: 24 March 2004, 10:45 »
yeah, and they were cheeky enuf to come advertise theirs here...



is it a vw sanctioned thing? or a enthusiast organisation?

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Re:clubgti... whats up with em?
« Reply #4 on: 24 March 2004, 11:01 »
Ask this one to VR6 and see what reply you get  ;D ;D ;D


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Re:clubgti... whats up with em?
« Reply #5 on: 24 March 2004, 11:07 »
I use their forum too, when I get time.
Whats more, last year I went to one of their West Sussex meets, that John Wintle advertises on here. Had a great time and met some good people. I think you'll find we're all like minded and here for the love of VW's ;D

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Re:clubgti... whats up with em?
« Reply #6 on: 24 March 2004, 11:11 »
i did notice they had a meet a few weeks ago about 2 miles from my house :)
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Re:clubgti... whats up with em?
« Reply #7 on: 24 March 2004, 11:18 »
i visit this site more often because i find it more user friendly. lol

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« Reply #8 on: 24 March 2004, 11:57 »
I think because it's smaller and less established it feels more 'personal' here........ClubGTI is huge and has been around for quite some time now.

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Re:clubgti... whats up with em?
« Reply #9 on: 24 March 2004, 12:05 »
yeh i choose this site over clubgti because of the more personal connections. i feel i know some of you on quite a personal basis even though we have never met and if i have a particular query i will just e mail that person knowing ill get a straight answer.
i like the fact that this site is also jv's pride and joy (well sometimes  ;)) and he lets us all know when things are going good or bad.
i used too also post at clubgti but the fact that i got banned a couple of weeks back for moaning about there censoring has ment ive been here more where i can say just about whatever i like!  ;D