GTP Cool Wall: 2004-2009 Volkswagen Golf GTI

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2004-2009 Volkswagen Golf GTI

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Uncool. Its a hipster magnet. Every GTi owner here is a massive hipster.
 
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Meh, it looks too boring after the 6th and 7th gens have come out. Understated styling can definitely be a bonus, but this gen is a little too understated I think. Still, it's a pretty good car.
 
I really like the car and would consider buying one but it isn't really a cool car. The styling isn't inspiring and the car just looks a tad dull. It flies a bit too far under the radar, which means that most of the ones I've seen are fitted with silly aftermarket stuff to compensate.

Hot hatches are cool because they're great sleeper cars, especially in North America where you get a ton of people saying things like this:
Slash
Meh. Nothing even remotely interesting.
And hatches are all ugly. Most of the time.
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mustang fanatic
but I don't really like hatchbacks.
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Adamgp
Don't care for hatchbacks.
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...accompanied with non car people who think of all hatches as slow. The problem with this GTI is that it's just too sleepy. The 6th and 7th gen tip the balance just enough, there's enough differentiating them from the standard models and they give you a little hint that there's more under the hood than your average 5 door without being shouty about it.

I want to vote meh on this car because I like it and would buy one*, but I don't like voting meh so I'll go with uncool.

*The fact that I would want to buy one of these cars doesn't help its case, I'm not cool.
 
It doesn't matter how quick it is, it's still an uncool hatch :lol:
 
It's a Golf. But it's not a VR6 or Mk I; and this one in particular is the one where everyone started treating it as the "benchmark." Think of a benchmark car in any regular car segment. How cool can something possibly be when it is purposely designed to be conservative in all areas?
 
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It's a Golf. But it's not a VR6 or Mk I; and this one in particular is the one where everyone started treating it as the "benchmark." Think of a benchmark car in any regular car segment. How cool can something possibly be when it is purposely designed to be conservative in all areas?
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Thought that's what being conservative was all about....playing it cool :cool:
 
Wavering between cool for plaid seats and golf-ball shifter and meh for simply being a Golf.*

Completely undecided.

*note, despite claims that it was named after the Gulf Stream, in line with the "winds" theme that Volkswagen was using ("Scirocco", "Jetta (stream? How Italian!)) at the time, do note that VW also had the "Polo", which is obviously named after the sport and not the Polar Vortex, as it wasn't quite as big a buzzword back then... and that the original Golf came with tartan, in honor of the Scots who invented the sport... well...

Also, marketing people who were working at VW at the time recall no instance in which the name, when selected out of the hat, was connected to the Gulf Stream...
 
Lovely cars... where others see dull, I see discreet and understated.

A few years back my then Mondeo blew a turbo pipe 3 days before I was due to go to the South of France. The part wasn't available, so our fleet manager sorted me a Golf GTi out of our pool.

I covered almost 2k miles in it over 9 days... 850 in one hit down to Nice on the Autoroutes at 90-120mph with my wife and a our luggage. Thrashed it on the mountain roads (including a brilliant drive on the Col De Vence). Then loaded it up to the roof with wine and drove 850 miles back to London in 13 hours including the Eurostar.

It was comfortable and refined on the Autoroutes (the golf has a great driving position if you're tall), and good fun on the Mountain roads... not many hatches that can mix the 2 jobs so well, which is why they get such good comments as an ownership proposition.

Cool.
 
There's never been a bad Golf GTI. This is old but not old enough to be a classic but it is still really good. Cool.
 
A regular Golf would be fairly meh as it's a common, safe choice car. The GTI bumps it to barely cool. Though many are driven by hipsters, there are still enough driven by car guys looking for a practical car around here that this can still be cool.
 

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