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Post by WDB on Oct 15, 2018 7:36:24 GMT
On the way into T4 yesterday, my taxi was keeping pace with a Mk5 Golf. Nothing unusual in that, but the badge on the back said GTX, which is not a designation I’ve seen before. It was RHD, had two exhaust pipes and a square rear number plate, so I suppose it was a grey import from Japan or somewhere else in the Pacific. It just seems odd to go to the trouble of shipping something so readily available here.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 15:37:23 GMT
What is the GTX? Is there something about it which means it's not readily available in the UK?
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Post by Rob on Oct 15, 2018 16:10:40 GMT
I can't see why you'd import a Golf GTX from Japan either.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 18:36:02 GMT
Think it might be an automatic GTI before they offered the automatic DSG GTI in Europe.
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Post by Rob on Oct 15, 2018 19:03:22 GMT
So before anyone had a chance to worry about how it would be long term. So import it from Japan and it will be fine.  EDIT: I referred to it being a DSG. |
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Post by Avant on Oct 15, 2018 22:41:45 GMT
Possibly an invention of Castrol.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2018 6:02:32 GMT
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Post by lygonos on Oct 18, 2018 22:10:04 GMT
Might just be a Barry Boy with a Scirocco GTX badge on his Golf.
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Post by WDB on Oct 19, 2018 5:53:19 GMT
Google does suggest that the Mk4 and Mk5 Golfs were offered as a GTX in Japan and possibly New Zealand. That fits my first thought, prompted by the square number plate. Still doesn’t explain why anyone felt the need to undertake the guacamole-to-Guadalajara exercise of bringing a Golf to Europe.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2018 6:09:00 GMT
To me there was always a gap in the market for small/medium sized high specification cars offering the level of luxury and performance of say a big engined E Class in a smaller package. Lexus got in there with the first IS200. VW could have done it with the Jetta. Maybe the GTX was an attempt?
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Post by Avant on Oct 19, 2018 12:27:23 GMT
Too much of that and they'd have got into trouble with Audi. Someone who in a previous generation might have had a Riley or a Triumph probably now has an Audi or a Lexus.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2018 15:19:46 GMT
Ah Yes! The Triumph Dolomite - the car you drove wearing a dinner suit...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2018 15:38:18 GMT
I passed my test in a Toledo. Wearing jeans.
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Post by WDB on Oct 19, 2018 15:54:48 GMT
The Toledo was a bit stodgier then the Dolomite, wasn’t it? My grandad had a yellow one. Then a blue one. Then, when he went back for another, it had gone out of production, so he had a Dolomite 1300 instead. That had four doors and seemed swankier inside, in a cravat-and-old-shag sort of way.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2018 16:51:07 GMT
The Toledo was a 1300/1500 and the Dolomite was a 1500/1850 I think. I also thought the difference was that Toledo was 2-door and the Dolomite 4-door, but sinc eI kind of remember my Toledo as 4-door that might be bollocks. Or my brain is going.
It was pretend wood, plastic seats and tough old carpet inside, that I do remember.
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