DAZ1985
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My mate is looking for a car to replace his puma. I dont know exactly what he wants from a car tbh
Pro's and cons with either car would help 
Not the new shape Golf the one before it i think its mk5 ????? 
£5000 budget any links welcome 
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
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Anything but a diesel 
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
Location: St. Helens
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I am a VAG TDI fan TBH,
good MPG good torque, reliable
like you said depends what he wants from a car
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Colin
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Depends what mileage he does really, if he's high miles get the diesel, else petrol all the way.
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Nic Barnes
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vtec
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Marc
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GT TDi
Can he afford a V6 4 Motion?
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Mike
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quote:
Originally posted by muppetsport
vtec
yO!1!
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DAZ1985
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He wants performance and an alright mpg (who doesn't :lol
I imagine both are as tunable as one another?
 @ muppet
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DAZ1985
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
GT TDi
Can he afford a V6 4 Motion?
If you can get a 4motion for 5k them yes id imagine so
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DAZ1985
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Anyone else?
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Ricky352
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Since ive bought my diesel ive been kinda bored with it. Love the ease of overtaking etc, but off the lights isnt exciting. I doubt ill get another diesel for a while.
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Fro
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Registered: 20th Jun 06
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He would be looking at the mk4 shape,
the gt tdi's are very good economy and can be pretty wuick once tuned.
With the petrol engines there is the gti which is a 2.0 which is really abismal and should never have been badged as such imo.
Then there is the 1.8 turbo gti which comes in 150bhp or 180bhp (in some later models after the anniversary was produced) as standard.
With the 1.8T GTI engines, there were two types of turbo that came on them
pre 2001ish was the Ko3
post 2001 was the Ko3s
The engines with the ko3s turbos can be remapped to slightly higher power, from 150 to just over 200bhp iirc.
A good site to have a look on is www.uk-mkivs.net
[Edited on 12-09-2007 by fro-dizzle]
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Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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GT TDI
Can you get a decent one sub 5K though?
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