Is the Golf gti really worth the cost compared to a .............

[R32UK]

I used to have a megane for about 8months... and about half of this was spent back at the dealership. It wasnt even my car so I wasnt bothered about all the small niggly probs, but the standard of quality of things like electrics and ride just were not up to it. Poor excuse for a car imo. Went with a friend to go see one a few month ago (225) they have the same problem still.. put the car in gear and the gearstick continues to wobble like its in neutral!! wtf!!

What you get for you money is alot of stuff.... but this just means more stuff to go wrong. I got rid of mine and got a C2, which was 10x better... now thats saying something!

[Gene Hunt.]

Gene Hunt would never drive a french car. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING MAN!

Nick

:smug:very true.But jokeing aside you do get a lot of car for the money.

[R32UK]

Gene Hunt would never drive a french car. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING MAN!

Nick

:smug:very true.But jokeing aside you do get a lot of car for the money.

You also get lots of free coffee chucked in.... whilst your sat at the dealers waiting for them to fix your car (which usually doesnt take that long.. as they cant find the fault... because its a design fault.. because the car is crap!)

[jimGTI-T]

If you are considering a hot hatch around that price range, have you considered the Mk 1 Seat Leon Cupra R? (my last car)

Brilliant car, I had no complaints whatsoever.

Dont buy a Megane if you like your electrics working.  I dont care what they say, despite being in the 21st century, they are still made by a Frenchman, therefore they will definitely break.

[KentBladeboy]

Gene,  hope you realise everytime some French farmer,bus driver, train driver, parking attendent etc etc, gots the hump over losing one of his/her 150 days annual leave, right to retire at 50 an a full pension funded by British taxes, that lump of French metal will drive its self to the nearest ferry port and blockade anything that moves,  gonna be a real pain when some big Yorkie driver reverses right over your paper thin metal French bonnet,  just think about that my man.......they didn't call for our help twice in the 1900's just because they liked us...if they can't protect their own backyard from the Bosch, then they can't make decent cars, know what I mean Bro?   

[MikeGTI]

Surely coming on a Golf GTI website to get an appraisal of a Renault Megane was never going to lead to lead to the most positive set of responses.

Why not try www.meganesport.net I'm sure you'll get enough rubbish spouted by those guys to balance out the argument.

[Gene Hunt.]

Surely coming on a Golf GTI website to get an appraisal of a Renault Megane was never going to lead to lead to the most positive set of responses.

Why not try www.meganesport.net I'm sure you'll get enough rubbish spouted by those guys to balance out the argument.

........ :rolleyes:easy mike i only posted for a  .As above the GTi is top of my wish list(had 3 gti's in the past) just thought they offered a lot of car for a fair price. .

[MikeGTI]

I'm only joking, I'm not a die hard GTI fan, infact the missus gave me loads of grief about buying this car as I used to refer to Mk4's as soulless german boxes.

The salesman asked me on the test drive what I though of Golfs and my response was that I didn't actually like them. He was needless to say unimpressed that we were on said test drive until I pointed out I quite liked this one. Think the GTI has a lot more appeal than the standard golf models.

Would've looked at a megane myself if I'd not wanted an Auto box (Its not an auto its DSG I know I know) though I doubt I would've actually bought one. Plus their boots a very funny shape and the dog wouldn't have liked it.

Just found everyones comments amusing, though somewhat as expected.

[orca]

Don't get me wrong the mk5 gti is still at the top of my wish list BUT i did look at an edition 30 the other day which was an 07 plate 8000 miles with silver mettalic & the up grade headlights & that was £19995.With those extras it must of been close to 24-25 k new ? so that has lost the best part of 5 grand in a short space of time ?.

Answer to that question is ...........car was an parallel import., theyre residuals value suffer slightly more. full uk high spec car would not loose that ammount.if been hunting for ed 30's and all the cheap ones are imports, with no add ons, ie dsg etc

.............it was a uk spec according to the advert.

My GTI is full uk spec but a parallel import.  I'd advertise it as full uk spec.

[Phil mcavity]

Don't get me wrong the mk5 gti is still at the top of my wish list BUT i did look at an edition 30 the other day which was an 07 plate 8000 miles with silver mettalic & the up grade headlights & that was £19995.With those extras it must of been close to 24-25 k new ? so that has lost the best part of 5 grand in a short space of time ?.

Answer to that question is ...........car was an parallel import., theyre residuals value suffer slightly more. full uk high spec car would not loose that ammount.if been hunting for ed 30's and all the cheap ones are imports, with no add ons, ie dsg etc

.............it was a uk spec according to the advert.

My GTI is full uk spec but a parallel import.  I'd advertise it as full uk spec.

Arh but you would of course tell them, "oh you only have so many months instead of years of warranty left". If theres no history of the car being imported  or any service history, the dealer wouldnt touch it, or if a private buyer had any savvy, they would run a Vin number check on Vw's computer to check your "history" and the actual history that alot of buyers wont tell you.I so nearly got stung by this twice!!!!(Ed30 and Candy white GTi). If youve had the GTi imported yourself, then its perfectly fine, but if your purchasing an import 2nd hand you really have to look closely into all this b4 splashing the cash.