It's hard to explain

[Buller_Scott]

now I have a mk3 2.0, and 2 mk1's. and I'm only 19 and struggle to keep the mk3 on the road haha.

that's pretty hardcore....

ever since i was 15, i just loved everything about the VR6 golf.... mum went to look at a 6n polo, and i saw the vr, and absolutely fell in love with it.

11 years later, i finally managed to find one in reasonable nick, but then maintenance problems ensued, i had to get a workshop to work on them ($$$$$) because i didnt have the space to work on it myself (on-street parking in fitzroy), and then when everything finally looked like it was coming together, i crashed it into a traffic light pole going around a corner (gotta love VAG understeer + stupidity).

i was set on a fiesta XR4 as my next car, but saw a tuned polo gti in action and said "i gotta gets me one of those!". test drove both the gti and the tdi, and i just liked the tdi's driveability better, low down in the rev range.

if ever i get a place with a decent garage where i can work on stuff properly, and leave things dismantled for days at a time without worrying that things will get rained on, or blown away, or lost, i'd love to get something a little unique to cruise around in - be it a mk2, or an early model polo (or a 6n2, for that matter), or a caddy delivery-van-come-dubwagen...

mk1's are a little too hardcore for someone who lacks patience and gumption like i do,

[Wolfgang]

While having more of a think about this I remembered that I seriously considered a Golf VR6 as my first car, couldn't find a decent enough example at the non existent budget I had, ended up with a Twin Cam Corolla instead. Then came close to buying a Passat 4Motion few years back, bought a Liberty instead. So I guess you could say the interest was always there but it just took me a while to actually buy one.

[GRN_VAGN]

Most people wouldn't be able to have a mk 1 as a daily though. Not for everyone.

If its lightly modded, or stock they are great i reckon.
I prefer to drive my mk1 with the family most days. unless its a long trip, or im having shoulder problems then i use the Coon .

But yes i find myself trying to park next to other VW's, or if one drives past i wonder if any parts off it would fit my Mk1 ahhaa.

Would love a type 3 next.

[Ben J]

I'd always liked the look of golfs when I was (even more) young, and my friends mum had a mk5 tdi and it was nice. When looking for my first car though I never really considered one, as I thought they were all just slow little things unless you got a turbo, which I couldn't drive for a few more years. So I went researching fast p-plate legal cars and stumbled upon the vr6 golf... did a bit of a search to see if it really existed as around here I'd never seen one and fell in love. Surely enough probably 8 months was spent researching them and other Volkswagens before making a trip to sydney, test driving about 6, and driving a mint mk3 vr6 back to Toowoomba. In this time I grew a mass appreciation for other VW's and hope to one day have a mk1 project aswell. Any VW on the road, weather it be a plain mk5 being driven by a 60 year old, a ratty mk3/4 or something tastefully modded (of which I've probably only seen about 1 other in Toowoomba) catches my eye.

This little car now consumes practically 100% of my spare time, not to mention money. But I love it.

[Wolfgang]

This little car now consumes practically 100% of my spare time, not to mention money. But I love it.

Same as being in a relationship then.

[GRN_VAGN]

Same as being in a relationship then.

HAHAHA, reminds me of this, its for a Beetle, but still a VW

01. Your Bug will never have a headache, although it may give you a few.
02. Your Bug will always respect you in the morning, although it may not start.
03. You can enjoy your Bug all month long.
04. You don't have to wine and dine your Bug to keep it happy.
05. Your Bug will always wait patiently while you play or watch basketball, football, pool etc.
06. Your Bug won't get jealous when you look at another Bug.
07. Your Bug doesn't demand equality.
08. If you change Bugs, you don't have to pay alimony.
09. Afterwards your Bug won't feel guilty, cry, or call her mother, your ex-wife, or her therapist.
10. Your Bug can't talk.
11. Another man will seldom steal your Bug.
12. Your Bug won't wake you up in the middle of the night to ask, "If I died, would you get another Bug?'
13. Your Bug isn't allowed in Macys, Bloomingdales, Neiman-Marcus or on the Shopping Channel.
14. Your Bug will never divorce you and take your trailer.
15. Your Bug will usually start every time without protest and requires only 30 seconds to warm up.
16. Your Bug responds to input quickly without complaint or an involved discussion.
17. Your Bug requires low maintenance and should run to 200,000 miles without a complaint.
18. Your Bug only needs four pairs of shoes…..really.
19. Your Bug is always waiting to go.
20. Your Bug won't run off with a younger Bug.
21. Your Bug won't have a fit if you leave the toilet seat up.

[Ben J]

To add to that..

Truth:

1- You can let your friends have a drive of you car and vice versa and it's not weird.
2- You can drive your car with your friends and it's not weird.
3- You can own and drive multiple cars without any of them getting upset.
4- Your car won't get annoyed at you if you forget to buy it a gift on the date you purchased it.
5- If you decide your current car is not meeting your needs you can sell it. For money.
6- If you decide a part of your car is unattractive, worn out or has lower than desired performance it's easy and relatively cheap to replace it with a better part.
7- You can leave your car in the car park while you go to the pub.
8- If you're not really in the mood for cars, you can leave it in the shed as long as you like and it will still be there when you do feel like cars.
9- There is no expectation you will ever have to go to Germany to meet the people who put your car together.

Anyway. I know what you mean and it is hard to explain. I'll occasionally have random people walk up and compliment the car... the first time I freaked out a little as when people start walking at me in my car its normally to tell me off... but its a great feeling when you have a good chat with a random bloke about vws.