Mk5 Gti ed30, No1 on the plaque

[TagnuT]

It was used for the Car magazine road test too:-

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/VW-Golf-GTi-Edition-30/

 

[DaveB@Vagbremtechnic]

Im surprised at it being a press car and it not being bejeweled with Options....

Looks like a bog basic one to me

[RedRobin]

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Either way, the sellers are just trying to big-up the provenance to gain a higher price or get it sold. Us lot here know quite a bit about the true history of this car and, as Greeners rightly points out, the plate fiasco. Many folks out there probably won't know the history behind the plates and they'll believe that the car is more special than it is. Estate agents, auctioneers, car salesmen, they're all the same!

[Dp_Ed30]

Estate agents, auctioneers, car salesmen, they're all the same!

oi, were not all bad people, yes we might sell you over priced car polish and what not but not all of us need shooting

[RedRobin]

Estate agents, auctioneers, car salesmen, they're all the same!

oi, were not all bad people, yes we might sell you over priced car polish and what not but not all of us need shooting

....Yeah, I know. But those occupations generally carry a bad name because of the bad ones. 

[gulfstream11]

I agree with Robin,my wife is an Estate Agent and she,s orrible...

[spankydan]

I would say yes it's had a hard life but equally if VW treat their press cars like what we treat ours they are more than well maintained.

[RedRobin]

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And isn't the GTI designed to be driven quite hard? The key is not to thrash from cold and to maintain properly.