| It is almost impossible to imagine the world without | | | | doesn't try to be flashy, or gimmick-ridden, but it does |
| certain things in it. Try to imagine a world when the | | | | everything it's supposed to with elegance and |
| Rolling Stones aren't embarking on another world tour | | | | panache. Considering it is a German car, it is very |
| despite having the combined age of the Methuselah | | | | British. |
| Tree, or a year without a Simon Cowell produced | | | | The Brand New Volkswagen Golf Mark VI comes |
| talent show on television. It's impossible isn't it? Certain | | | | with a choice of four petrol engines and three diesel |
| objects/people/events are ingrained on our national | | | | engines. My personal pick of the bunch is the |
| conscience and if you were to take them away, | | | | twin-charged 1.4Litre Petrol which produces 160Bhp |
| everything would just seem...well...strange I guess. This | | | | which is phenomenal for a car of this size. Driving this |
| is exactly how I feel about the Volkswagen Golf. | | | | car is unlike the experience of the previous model Golf |
| I have a long history with the VW Golf, as my | | | | (the Mark V), as it adds an element that its |
| Grandfather owner one in my formative years and | | | | predecessor was lacking slightly; excitement. Other |
| ferried me and my brother around in it quite a lot. I | | | | than the GTi models, the Golf has never been |
| have very fond memories of this car which have | | | | considered an exciting drive. It has been described as |
| remained with me right into my adulthood. On the | | | | safe, comfortable, economic and ecological but never |
| surface though, the VW Golf isn't exactly breathtaking, | | | | exciting. The supercharged and turbocharged 1.4 litre |
| it's boxy, cumbersome and not to mention quite a bit | | | | engine feels raw, edgy and above all, powerful. All of a |
| more expensive than most of its competition. So | | | | sudden the VW Golf seems al lot less British after all. |
| exactly where the does this abiding love affair with the | | | | Essentially, the Volkswagen Golf Mk VI has retained |
| VW Golf stem from and how has it endured for so | | | | everything that the consuming public loved about the |
| long? | | | | car since its initial inception, but they have been treated |
| It was over 35 years ago when the Volkswagen Golf | | | | to a few added extras now. The Golf is still safe, |
| first made its appearance and it has been a | | | | comfortable, economical and ecological, but now it has |
| consistently popular seller ever since. The evolution of | | | | the capability to force your head back into the |
| the VW Golf has been a joy to witness over the | | | | headrest and leave you with a silly schoolboy grin on |
| decades, as the car has gone from looking like it was | | | | your face. Although the Golf has evolved into the |
| designed by an artistically-challenged child, to the sleek, | | | | consummate city car, if you take the new Golf out |
| rounded and aesthetically pleasing models we see | | | | onto country lanes, you will see why I can say with |
| today. Its popularity stems from its honesty and it | | | | confidence that this is the most impressive the Golf |
| reserve; two traits the British public seem to lap up in | | | | has ever been. |
| their people and consumer products. The VW Golf | | | | |