"...just like a golf" adverts

[Station]

Come on, how many times have you said 'that's just like a Golf' when someone points out a feature on a car? What, nobody?

 

 

I think I've compared something to BMW, not a Golf though??

[brammy777]

Wonder what that saxo/106(?) has in it which is like a golf? Is it the fact they both have engines?Stupid advert.

[Mr Lobster]

The bit at the start - woman at car rental desk - is VERY familiar "Yes, Kia Rio's are just like Golfs"I *may* have said this to slightly disappointed customers once or twice....

[Albert Ross]

Yeah mate, it's just like a Golf, slammed to the max with trimless wide steels, had a grinder taken to perfectly good paintwork, now sporting a rusty bonnet, and a gay roofrack bolted to the roof. Oh, yes, and driven by a cock-end.

[Mike D]

I love the fact the purple chavved up one is actually a Mk3 Golf. Suckas!!!!

[Lukas]

By far the best selling car in Austria, but I HATE them!!!

[Station]

I had a video of a mate driving his 94 Golf into a river because it was so bland.

[Guest]

"Why buy something like a Golf when you can have a Golf?"Nice to see that despite a yearly fall in quality that VW still haven't lost their pompous air about their overpriced boxes.Here's one for you : Perhaps I 'didn't get a Golf' because I don't want one? Why would I want a Golf? They're the epitome of everything the modern car is hated for - a 'silver in every driveway' poster child if ever I saw one.Couple this with poor to middling equipment levels, wildly ambitious pricing and a reliability index only slightly better than a Focus, and you can see why I didn't bother.The last Golf worthy of this sanctimonious bollocks was the Mk 2, and may well have been the model that first sired this idiotic 'Golfs are the best \ more reliable than any other car in the class' mentality that pervades offices and used car pitches up and down the country.Golfs are average commodities for the braying 9-5 idiot to aspire to. Where I work, the most sought after cars are:1. VW Golf2. VW Golf3. Audi A34. Audi A35. Audi A36. BMW X57. VW Golf8. VW Golf9. VW Golf10. VW Golf.A good friend of mine bought a Mk 5 FSI new and it was the biggest heap of shit he's ever had the misfortune to own. It needed three new radiators and a gearbox in the space of 2 years. He then exchanged it for another thinking he got a Saturday morning job, and it's replacement is even worse.He's just gone and signed on the dotted line for a Mk 6. Reap what you sow and all that.Fucking inspired.

[Station]

These are to blame:

 

http://www.autocar.co.uk/CarReviews/Roa ... TI/212965/

[Cavcraft]

It's all ringing true with me. I'd struggle to think of a car I find more -over-rated and hateful than a Golf. Any Golfs. All Golfs. Mk1-Mk whatever they are now. Every fucking last one.I also find they're mostly* owned/driven by snooty badge snobbish wankers. *But not completely.

[Mike D]

My Mk2 Driver was the only car i've ever owned to leave me stranded. Not one of my other heaps ever did that, but the Golf managed it. It also rotted horrendously, wasn't particularly quick, wasn't really very well specced, wasn't very comfortable, nor particularly reliable.It looked nice, in Black and all the 16v goodies, but it was a bit of a disappointment. My Dads old Passat was the same, uncomfortable, slow, lots of electrical faults, and pretty meanly specced.VW are well overrated in my book....

[Lankytim]

I find this Golf supereme reliability and quality myth causes many to get extremely neglected. People think theyre bulletproof so they just dont require oil changes or any kind of maintenance. As a result e.bay is full of clapped out, knackered, abused older Golfs.

[strangehighways]

The hate that I have for 'junior exec' TDi company cars (I don't have a company car by the way) stems from the Mark 4 Golf. I just remember seeing lots of annoying men (and women) driving black TDi's about 5/6 years ago. I think now that those types (and there are a hell of a lot of them) have moved to the Audi A3 and a few to MINIs.Of course, the people driving them doesn't mean that the car is necessarily rubbish. But I have driven and been in Golfs and whilst I cannot knock the quality of the materials, there is NOTHING exciting about them whatsoever (I reserve judgement on the Mark 6 GTI models until/if I drive one).Also, while the power outputs of some of the VAG TD engines is very impressive, some/all of them are very loud for modern diesel engines. My boss has a Mark 5 GT TDi and I was incredibly surprised how unrefined it is.

[Mike D]

I love the fact the purple chavved up one is actually a Mk3 Golf. Suckas!!!!

Isn't it a mk3 Fiesta?Interestingly, my sister had a shot of my A3 at christmas and commented that "it was much better a golf", I told her that "it was a golf".

Looking more closely you're right lol, oops!

[Guest]

So the new ones will be...1) The brakes are shit"just like a golf"2) How f*cking much"just like a golf"3) Rusty bonnet-slammed suspension-stupid wheels-swastikas-roofrack etc"just like a golf"etc etc

[Milford Cubicle]

Also, while the power outputs of some of the VAG TD engines is very impressive, some/all of them are very loud for modern diesel engines. My boss has a Mark 5 GT TDi and I was incredibly surprised how unrefined it is.

They were one of the only companies not to jump on the common rail bandwagon in the late '90s/early '00s, that's why their engines sound so gravelly.

 

 

Just like a Golf. GR8 4 WOODSHED.

 

That car was OK, the 1.9 diesel seemed pretty unburstable, but it was back-breakingly uncomfortable and dull to drive and seriously rusty. What's the point in having nice dashboard plastics if the bodywork is falling away around you?

[CIH]

They went to commonrail just in the past few months. Apparantly the PumpDeuse system, with it's cam-driven timing, isn't flexible enough to allow for post-combustion injection. No doubt you were all desperate to know that. Thank me L8tr.

[pogweasel]

The bit at the start - woman at car rental desk - is VERY familiar "Yes, Kia Rio's are just like Golfs"I *may* have said this to slightly disappointed customers once or twice....

I had the 'priviledge' of hiring a Kia Cee'd the other week, that WAS just like a golf. I enjoy seeing this advert on the telly, as it makes 'Er Indoors throw her shoes at the haunted goldfishbowl, as she gets really really irate about VW owners...

[Milford Cubicle]

They went to commonrail just in the past few months. Apparantly the PumpDeuse system, with it's cam-driven timing, isn't flexible enough to allow for post-combustion injection. No doubt you were all desperate to know that. Thank me L8tr.

Post-combustion injection, is that to make it cleaner or quieter? They are pretty sooty buggers those PD engines.

[Station]

I had a MK3 Golf once which I bought for £90. One of the worst cars I've ever driven. I gave it absolute death, something I'd not dream of doing to any other car.

 

Took it into a few fields, although it was a nasty car, it was good fun to do things to it that you'd never do to other cars.

 

 

I drove it through a River...

 

 

 

 

[Pillock]

I love VWs. Really I do.But my mental image of VWs are stuck in the mid-80s where they were honest, well-build cars. Placca wheeltrims and windy windows on all but the most expensive, but they went and went and went.I think the last good Golf was the Mk3, the GTI was already cashing in on the name but the TD models were alright, and the basic 1.4 jobbies did their job fine.Come the Mk4, it was all estate agents, drug dealers, confusing badging (GTTDI? GTITD? GTTD?), chipped diesels with plumes of black smoke and wanky tinted windows. The cars weren't even that good, VAG had made the platform so adaptable it was just bland and the quality was way, way down.Mk4 GTIs in black with too-big wheels and a thump-thump-thump soundtrack are the new lime green Nova.

[Cavcraft]

I despise all Golfs as said earlier but even Golf enthusiasts I know say the Mk3 is utter wank.I actually blame the Golf for my loathing of all things VW.

[pogweasel]

I just don't understand the drift of the advert TBH. "It's like a Golf"Good, it has a dungeon-esque interior and is reasonably well screwed together, but whatever is "like a Golf" is cheaper, so anyone with their frontal lobes intact will spend less on something "like a Golf" and be happy, maybe going on hols with the difference, or having a really good night out, possible involving having nubile naked ladies gyrating in their face.

[sporty-shite]

My current daily is a Mk3 Golf GTi.It's shit.Bought in a hurry because I was without car, it's recently passed MOT at the most cost of any car I have ever owned, and that's without having to do the welding that was only advisory. It's not particularly fast, has a few gismos, but they don't work, and is just bland.I am VERY tempted to cut the springs in half and apply Audi alloys to at least make it a bit more interesting.Can't wait for the weather to improve slightly so I can get the Celica MOT'd. That's sbite as well, but at least everything works.