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Golf GTD to make a come back!
Snoopy:
--- Quote from: RedRobin on April 02, 2009, 08:04:14 pm ---I'm not "offended" by a GTD but just very disappointed that the new GTI isn't sufficiently different in its STYLING from the GTD because VW have suddenly inserted the GTD style and that it's a further step towards boring uniformity. I'm not talking about comparitive performance - I don't care about that as I'm not a willy-waver.
Perhaps it's all about cost efficiency. Well, fook all that! Utterly boring and without any individual design flare and cool style.
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Robin you keep saying the same point but forget something.
How about the past 1.5 years and the GTsport TDI mk5? It came with the same style leather seats that were also standard in the GTI. It had the same sheild style grill etc.
To me this GTD is basically the same as they did in the past year or so. Similar styled front but without the red line, similar styled seats and interior. At least with the mk6 GTI the back will be alot different were as with the mk5 its only slight.
As for styling imo im sorry but the GTI was never about styling that was left to ford,bmw,peugeot,etc. Im sad how VW has gone so far for styling with the mk5&6 rather than go for engineering over looks like they did with mk1 and to a degree the mk2. If it had no engineering reason to be there it was not fitted simple.
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: Snoopy on April 05, 2009, 07:56:43 pm ---
Robin you keep saying the same point but forget something.
How about the past 1.5 years and the GTsport TDI mk5? It came with the same style leather seats that were also standard in the GTI. It had the same sheild style grill etc.
To me this GTD is basically the same as they did in the past year or so. Similar styled front but without the red line, similar styled seats and interior.
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....I never said I liked the GTsport TDI Mk5 (or whatever it's called) either.
You can't ignore styling even if it follows function. The Mk5 GTI's style is what initially attracted me.
I'm only voicing the opinion that I much prefer to see distinct styling differences. It's one of the reasons I'm put off Audi's - They all look far too similar.
cmdrfire:
--- Quote from: Snoopy on April 05, 2009, 07:56:43 pm ---
As for styling imo im sorry but the GTI was never about styling that was left to ford,bmw,peugeot,etc. Im sad how VW has gone so far for styling with the mk5&6 rather than go for engineering over looks like they did with mk1 and to a degree the mk2. If it had no engineering reason to be there it was not fitted simple.
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Mk1 was about styling! Red line around the nose, black edging to the rear window, running stripe along the flank. About the only "nonessential" parts of Mk5 GTI styling is the honeycomb (but it's nicer than a slatted grille IMO and the two fog grilles have actual application on "Trop" spec cars) and the red stripe.
Snoopy:
^ Yes the mk1 had the red line round the grill instead of the crome. Yes it has stickytape coachline on the side and black on the back window. Yes it had these to mark it out from the C and CL models, But the GX and Driver models shared alot of the same look parts and interior excluding the side tape. What i ment was it did not have stuck on rear spoilers that had no engineering reason to be there, extra exhaust pipes that had no engineering reason to be there, Side skirts no engineeering reason to be there, the list goes on, infact like ford had at the time.
The GTI has always had similar looking models in its range through its lifespan, Its nothing new, The GTI only ever differed very slight in looks.
The thing is everyones saying how much the GTD looks like the GTI so what its always been like this since the 70s get over it, they have done it with every MK of the golf INCLUDING the MK5.
Phil Mcavity:
Sad isnt it, theyre bringing out a GTD that looks the same design as the new Mk6 GTi bar the Monza's and rear difuser /exhaust being the only difference :sick:.
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