When to start golf age
Globe Drive: Golf GTI a classic that gets better with age
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money no object what is your dream car a
blood-red Ferrari or maybe a 700
horsepower McLaren spectacular cars but
who can even afford that and what
happens when you've got a parking on the
street or carry any luggage back in 1975
a few renegade employees at Volkswagen
had this simple idea to build a really
affordable car that you could drive to
work every day and then take to the
track on the weekend and so the Golf GTI
was born and in the beginning the
salespeople thought it was a really
stupid idea that the company would only
sell maybe 500 of them to date
Volkswagen has sold more than 2 million
this is the seventh generation GTI and
just like the original it's still
available with the red stripe on the
grille the golf ball gear knob and these
plaid cloth seats and it's still
decently affordable at $30,000 so what
makes the GTI more fun to drive than
your average compact car well for one
the steering its media's got some weight
to it it feels crisp there's no slack
here the engines got useful low-end
torque that makes it peppy in traffic
and the suspension is comfy but it still
provides huge grip and composure when
you start going faster around corners it
stays really flat the chassis doesn't
get flustered as it would in lesser
compact cars it feels like a precision
instrument go ask any of your car savvy
friends for advice on a new car and
probably the GTI will get mentioned sure
the Honda Subaru and Ford all have cars
that share the same basic formula but
the GTI is the original for over 40
years this thing has been trying to
provide some of those exotic car thrills
to people on all too real budgets
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