The Mark 3 VW Golf GTi has been voted the worst hot hatch of all time by Autocar. They commented:"...with a pathetic 115bhp, it could barely get out of it's own way"!!
The Mk4 1.8T GTi was poor for a GTi as well. I did 40,000 miles in one. It was a nice, luxury Golf with cracking seats and interior, but was never worthy of the GTi badge. For me, there have only been four (soon to be five) generations of real GTi.
I think the MK4 2.0na 'GTI' should take that particular honour surely? It musy have weighed nearly 3t! I thought the 1.8t wasn't a bad car though! Not as good as a MK5 out of the box no, but lots of potential.
What's it like on petrol Luke?