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Golf GTD to make a come back!
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: Snoopy on April 05, 2009, 08:26:59 pm ---
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.
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....Times are different now and what many of us are objecting to is the similarity among cars and not just Golfs or VW's. Just because something may have been done in the past doesn't mean it shouldn't ever change.
Whether in 1976 or 2009, making a GTI look not a lot different from a diesel devalues the GTI. Just as the Mk5 R32 looks like a Passat from the front - :sick: - The .:R looks ok and the Passat looks ok but it's not ok that they look the same - I'm sick of waving a thumbs-up to Passat drivers!
Top Cat:
--- Quote from: RedRobin on April 05, 2009, 08:53:20 pm ---
I'm sick of waving a thumbs-up to Passat drivers!
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:grin: classic
mixit:
I think there's another good indication here of brand dilution.
The interior on the Polo has more or less identical Intelagos too. :confused:
Its VW cashing in on the cache of the GTi. And they will continue to do so as they know it brings in sales. The MK5 Golf GT is the worst of all IMO. Debadged and from the rear, apart from tyre profile, they look identical to a GTi.
Snoopy:
--- Quote from: RedRobin on April 05, 2009, 08:53:20 pm ---....Times are different now and what many of us are objecting to is the similarity among cars and not just Golfs or VW's. Just because something may have been done in the past doesn't mean it shouldn't ever change.
Whether in 1976 or 2009, making a GTI look not a lot different from a diesel devalues the GTI. Just as the Mk5 R32 looks like a Passat from the front - :sick: -
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Robin but i have been hearing this since the 70's!!! Times are not changing imo its always been said. Nothing has changed.
Thats one of my points i was trying to make VW has ALWAYS done this.
If you want bodykits extra spoilers lots of exhausts you had the ford, peugeot, renualt and many other makes options etc etc
Its if you will part of what makes VW, VW and part of the appeal of what is and has made the GTI what it is.
Just because this is a site were everyone wants to modifiy does not meen that these views are the ONLY ones of GTI owners and are even the mass amount of views on it. Remember the american adverts for the mk5 GTI? VW made a joke about modifying and those type of looks of rival brands. People have complained about the dull looks and looking like other versions since the GTI first came out in the 70s but it was also part of the appeal. If someone did not buy a rival because of it and still went for the GTI they could always modify and its why there such a support out there. Hell i even still have mags from the 80s about modding mk1 GTIs for looks and performance and the original reviews of the mk1 against kitted more sporty looking rivals its looks were comented on then its nothing new.
I just remember'ed about reading the press interviews of the guys in charge of styling and in charge at VW which includes the mk6 it comes to light that even more conservative looks will be the norm from now for future models including sporty models this is because they too say times are a changing but the otherway.
RedRobin:
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Geoff, I think we may be talking slightly at cross-purposes - I'm not disagreeing with what you have posted as being the truth of the matter, but I'm only saying that I don't like it personally.
On the other hand it's great to be able to modify and individualise a GTI. I've been a creative designer all my life and don't like 'conservative' - It's a shame if VW want to make their products the same as Audi's.
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