Wanted a GTI for decades but life always got in the way. Finally got a brand new one a few weeks ago and it’s as fun as everyone says. I absolutely love it.
My 16v was a 91 and I brought it in 96 for £4000, it was last edition big bumber model in Helios Blue with BBS wheels. That car never broke down used next to no oil and at GTi day at Santa Pod ran 16 sec at 88mph with 166000 on the clock and still returned 37mpg on the motorway with a light foot and 27mpg round town... It had a clutch at 105000 but other than that no other problems, one of the best cars I've owned.
Great to see Brian Ricketts, the engineering brain of GTi Engineering, run by Richard Lloyd at Silverstone. My Golf is a Jade Green Type 19 Mk2 16v with the RE2000....2 litres bored and stroked, engine conversion....170bhp @ 6,000 revs, 158 lbs/ft @ 4,600 revs, 94,000 miles young, and goes like the clappers. Totally original car, I'm the 2nd owner. Love her to bits.
I had the 8 valve MK2 GTI, in jade green. Sounded great and was ace to drive. Also felt very solid. No recycled materials and thin plastics. Built to last
I had a 1989 16v that I bought in 1997 with 100k on the clock. It was fabulous and went like a train and kept up with my mates Corrado VR6 up to 70mph. Recently been hankering for a another one and was fortunate enough to be allowed to drive an original unmolested G plate 16v small bumper last year with 76k on the clock. I loved it, but sadly it wasn’t what I remembered, it went well enough but just felt old & slow even though it was a good one. Still have very fond memories of my 89 16v but according to MOT records records F465TNP hasn’t had one since 2008 and last recorded miles were 172k so unless it’s in a barn somewhere waiting to be brought back i life I’m guessing it is long gone. I do wish Top Gear was more like the old ones, I’m a young 52 year old petrol head and find new TG is just rubbish unless Chris Harris is driving or speaking.
Cars have come a long way, of course it feels old because it is! They were great cars for the time and still are if you don't ask too much from them. I mean its a 80s car you can't really expect it to be better acceleration or comfort wise then a mk7 GTI.
***** oh god no. i have a mk4 2.slow. and i always wanted a low mileage mk4 1.8t or gti next.... but it doesn't even seem worth it 150 hp standard on the 1.8t and 200 on a vr6 engine?? not worth it to me. and love this generation of cars dearly.
I've had my golf mark 2, 1.8, 8v for twelve years. Tornado red, big bumper 3 door. It's not in mint condition but it's nice for a 1990 H reg & I still love it. I get quite a lot of (nice car) comments from young & older people. Male & female.
I've been searching for one in ok-ish condition with no luck so far since March, but I had the chance to drive one that wasn't for sale out of pity from the owner lol
Still have a mk2 golf gti with 800k on the chassis. My father bought it original in 88 with the first engine lasting 350k miles the new motor is an ABA single came with the original ported and polished cylinder head with a 272 cam, ported intake manifold, lightened flywheel, all fitted to fully adjustable coilover suspension. The only problem I have is with early electronic fuel injection, digifant. Car runs like a champ and is more reliable than my 98 glx vr6.
I had a 89' Golf. What they are showing in this video is actually what this car was about. They put emphasize the high-speed handling which was in a class above the competition...FARFHENUGIN!!!
Our old gti 16v was one of the best cars we ever had. Never broke down in our decade of ownership and we sold it for decent money with over 100k on the clock. It was fast, fun to drive and even sounded pretty good with a milltek exhaust on it. You cant ask for much more than that from a car.
These GTI's are great older cars. I have an 07 with 250,000km on it and it drives beautifully. The turbo engine does like to drink oil. Just keep an eye on that.
I have had an '87 GTI 8v sitting in my garage for a while now, the camshaft and valves were damaged a long time ago by a VW dealership when the car had about 30000 miles, and the car has been sitting since then. I didn't know that these were so popular, now I think I should repair it after so long.
The car culture of britain is very cool. The GTI 16V with 175Hp had to of been a rocket ship with a 3rd door. Look fun to drive. Hatchbacks hopefully live on forever
I've never had any troubles with my type 155 only the top replacement, cv axles, front wheel bearings,tires, brakes coolant,wiper blades, fluids ignition tune-up easy stuff very reliable.
Makes me miss my perfect 1-owner '91 GTI 8V so much! Should never have sold it. I love my 1-owner '12 Golf R 2-door Rising Blue APR stage 2 (hyper rare in the USA) and loved my 1-owner '00 GTI VR6 for 12 1/2 years but my Mk2 GTI was just plain a total blast to drive for the 7 1/2 years I owned her. With strut trusses and sway bars at all 4 corners it rode on rails and I could dive into a corner with confidence and never lift, a requirement in a momentum car like the GTI. She gave the long-gone GTI "salute" - inside wheel hiked high. Maybe I'll get lucky and find the old girl again........
2:48 If an engine uses no oil, it means the cylinder wall cross-hatched honing pattern is gone, the pistons are not carrying oil and the engine will wear out rapidly. An engine in good condition is supposed to use oil.
I dont think so in this case. My engine is a 1.6 8V from same family as these old VW engines. EA827 more precisely. It has 140k km and is pushed hard every single time i take the car. Not a single drop of oil is burnt...Maybe a few after 10 k km or something, and i cant even see in the dipstick. Those engines have a different design from the new engines. They had tighter oil passages and were made to not burn oil unlike modern engines that need oil to be more efficient fuel wise and reliability wise.
I'm actually surprised that insurance was £470 fir a 30 year old in 1992. Makes today's prices seem not quite as bad as I thought. Still, it would be better if all these "no win, no fee" scammers were made illegal.
My 1985 8v GTI mkII had 190K miles on it and didn't use a drop of oil between changes. I had no provenance with it but I suspect it had been re-bored at some point. P-alloys and a leaky sunroof that dropped a load of water in your crotch when you braked hard after rain, a the heater matrix acted like a sauna. Great car.
Even today MK2's GTI are pretty expensive, but trust me these cars are worth the money. I've been owner of Golf CL 1990, 1.3L engine with fuel injection. Yes It was slow even with 5 speed gearbox but I had no problem at all with it for 6 years!! Oh yeah, the cam belt once broke down but I've paid for new one 8 quid so it's not big deal at all.
I wanted a MK2 Golf when I learnt to drive but couldn't insure anything with any of the following combination of letters after the name, gt sr xr rs followed by an i or e or turbo ;) I managed to insure a xs.
I was lucky enough to have a brother who had a 1987 GTI 8V, followed by a 1990 16V, both of which he let me drive, even though I was a silly novice and probably shouldn't have been at the wheel of a 16V. Both were such great cars ... even though the 8V was never quite fast enough to deserve that GTI-badge. Over here in Germany, insurance was getting rather ridiculous for them, too. Perhaps not as ridiculous as they would get a little later for Mk III VR6s, but still quite silly. I distinctly remember that at one point, the 16V was getting pretty close to what you would've paid to insure a Porsche 911.
Remember mine ! Black new 1990 and 2 years later, BBS RS, Bilstein/Eibach susp and latter Oettinger 163 hp prep by VW... Sold it to a young guy that crushed it 3 month after he bought ! Sad
Low mileage, totally original, right hand drive, big bumper Mk2 Golf GTi 16v, immaculate condition. Show me one anywhere in the world. There must be ONE that is concourse left on the planet. 🙏
@@JohnMcMahon. well some come up for sale although a sorted big bumper really is rare when you think about it. I'm planning on buying all horrible condition mk2 GTI's I can find and restore them. Funny enough theres a 1991 tornado red 8v big bumper one close to me. Shame the 8v lump was replaced by a non GTI one.
Interesting as at 7/2/21 the white J registration car was registered January 1992 & is showing untaxed as at August 1993. Probably written off in its first year.
did someone noticed when he said somethng about 'jigging' or whatever it is, something about that if the body isn't repaired properly it won't handle as it should? what is it all about
