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I also popped into my local VW dealer to test drive their new golf. I think we have decided to go for a hatchback and not an MPV or 4x4 for those who know what I am on about. Well my views on the new car are very mixed. It drives very well, 2.0 tdi, the chassis is really well sorted and the brakes good. The engine has a lot of pep to it.
Amazingly there is a very big downside. The interior is abysmal to say the least. It is nowhere the standard of the old golf. Plastics are cheap, the door surround moulding terrible, ashtray lid awful, the fan switches notchy and all in all a extremely poor interior. The dash plastic colour has changed from a nice deep black to a greyish interior. Reminds me of the Clio too much and looks faded in sunlight. If I could have the interior of the MK4 in this car it would be great. I am going to look at a MK4 GTI tomorrow which I have my eye on. However I will let Geeta decide, after all it is her car not mine.
Update: We have been back to the VW dealer and Geeta did agree that the MK5 has a poorer interior but something she could live with. We also looked at a MK4 GTi 180 bhp model with all the trimmings and less than a year old with 5000 miles on the clock. In the end she went with the 2.0 TDi GT MK5 model with Diamond Black paint. Should be here in about 10 weeks.
Update for you all. We did buy the MK5 Golf 2.0 GT tdi but not in the diamond black but in Steel Grey instead. Looks like my wife is as indecisive as I am on choosing a colour.
Since this is the bigger brother of the Seat and that car had so much torque as to out accelerate a 911 in third gear I can't wait to find out what this one can do! I have already beaten a 360 on a 0-100 drag race.....ok perhaps not. No offence meant to who ever posted the thread about the Seat, this is all tongue in cheek.
The car is not yet run in and needs to do another 300 miles before we open this puppy up good and proper. The one major difference I notice when driving this car is the fact I am always trying to see what fuel economy I can get. Geeta has been driving this thing for two weeks and has got an average of 48mpg! In the S on the other hand I am always trying to run the tank of petrol down as quickly as possible. It is freaky, the speeds I drive at in this car would make someone think there was an OAP behind the wheel. I kid you not.
This thread would be useless without pics so here are a few:
07-20-2004, 01:10 PM
It is freaky, the speeds I drive at in this car would make someone think there was an OAP behind the wheel. I kid you not. 
