Car (or bike) Chat!

[argyle]

Great cars, typically solid VW build and better sorted in terms of overall handling than the GTE.

I had a good few 'rows' in the GTE 16V and in a straight line it was a rocket. The twisty stuf though was more of a fight.

A little quirky maybe, but good fun and asked ßomething of you as the driver.

[RobbieGong]

This early GTE 16V (so no electric windows and the less attractive seats) Totally original and immaculate time warp sold for £29K https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/An-Incred...AAAOSwY~laOOuy

[argyle]

Car prices have gone through the roof in the past few years; I reckon a little bit of re-adjustment will happen in the next few years when the interest rate goes up; there'll no longer be a need to regard a car as an alternative to conventional investment.

[Pigmy Pony]

I had the Golf GTI 16V (MK2 naturally) and it was just a fantastically sorted car. I couldn't pick one fault with it.

I had one of these too, in Tornado red, my favourite of all the cars I've owned. Couldn't go in the house without one last look at it.

But it was such a target for thieving scrotes. Took it to Glastonbury in '93, great drive down there plenty of good sounds with the Alpine stereo. The return trip not so good, came to it on the Monday morning. drivers side window smashed, CD player gone, speakers gone, about 40 CDs gone. A musicless and very draughty ride home. Grr!

[gninnam]

This early GTE 16V (so no electric windows and the less attractive seats) Totally original and immaculate time warp sold for £29K https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/An-Incred...AAAOSwY~laOOuy

Ouch
In '89 I had a MkII GTE (8V) in white (when white was fashionable to have) and loved it.
After a year got a lease car through work, a brand new Nove GTE which was even more fun.................. those were the days

[argyle]

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style...esel-engine-UK

Interesting. This one will ripple through the manufacturers and hopefully give us petrol drivers a stay of execution from the big city council guillotine.

[walpurgis]

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style...esel-engine-UK

Interesting. This one will ripple through the manufacturers and hopefully give us petrol drivers a stay of execution from the big city council guillotine.

That's only UK and Europe though. I'll bet they keep selling them elsewhere.

This 'clean air' thing is getting rather wearing. Compared to the coal burning sixties, fifties and earlier, the air in this country is very safe to breathe nowadays. Anyway, even if everybody ends up using electric cars, there'll eventually come a time when they'll have to start mining and burning our huge reserves of coal to generate the power needed.

[Marco]

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style...esel-engine-UK

Interesting. This one will ripple through the manufacturers and hopefully give us petrol drivers a stay of execution from the big city council guillotine.

Showcasing your bias again, My? There's nothing like cherry-picking media articles, which serve to support your anti-diesel agenda, in order to bolster your world view, eh?

As a performance diesel car driver (and will be until the day I pop my clogs), I'll continue to buy used, so as they'll be 1000s of suitable cars to chose from next time I renew mine, the content of the article means jack shit!

Marco [inhale my oil burn, baby! ]

[argyle]

It means that one of the biggest manufacturers of diesel cars is about to stop, much the same as Volvo and their pro-clean vehicle plans for the next decade. It is groundbreaking.

Oh, and a 350 diesel is not a performance diesel, I promise you that.

[walpurgis]

The 'future deadlines' that our govenment(s) quote are bollocks anyway. Internal combustion engined cars gone in twenty years or whatever? There'll still be smokey old Land Rovers chugging along I'll bet. There'd be a revolution if fuel supplies were stopped.

We saw how resolute the government's intent was over the deadline for killing off of analogue radio, approaching twenty years past it now!