VW Golf Convertible: Top without
VW Golf Convertible in the VW trend color "Dark Purple" - favorite of ChroniquesDuVasteMonde editor Barbara Voigt.
Yes, I confess: He did not abandon me after 13 years. I fell in love with his cousin, who liked me even better. And now my ex is suddenly back. Dynamic and attractive like never before. I have to go through this now.
My ex, this was a VW Golf Cabriolet, which was among the 680,000 that were sold between 1979 and 2002, one of those much cited "strawberry baskets." For safety, the Henkel, the eye-catching roll bar, may have been good, but a view to the sky with a black bar in the middle? Did not go in the long run.
And the Eos, as a successor of the VW Golf Cabriolet on the market? Fully refined, its fashionable metal folding roof, but not at all my taste. , ,
Therefore the infidelity, therefore now my dilemma. Because my ex goes as a new VW Golf Cabriolet in the full with everything I had previously lacked in his: beam-free view, larger engine range including fuel-saving version, ESP and hill start assist, sleek sideline with pronounced flat windows, pointed A-pillars with a nice sloping windshield, beefy rear with bright red VW-typical angle lights, and a cloth hat, which covers itself without tarpaulin farthing up to 30 km in nine seconds.
That this folding patent is as familiar to me as the loading sill in the cabriokleinen trunk is not by chance, but the Audi A3. He has also supplied modular parts for the open-air Golf, such as Eos and Scirocco. Why reinvent wheels that are already rolling well in the Group? Exactly.
Therefore, I can follow colleagues only partially, if the mean to the new VW Golf Cabriolet: "solid to the bone", "almost an inconspicuous sun car", "good cockpit", "without that certain something".
In any case, the test drive gives me a warm coming-home feeling. Until the moment when I really accelerate. Kick-down at 210 hp - hiss, past two campers, then rail in the next corner, without any Schlinger fears. I never felt that safe before. Despite Henkel. , ,
INFO: The VW Golf Convertible (4.25 m long, 1.78 m wide, 1.42 m high) comes with four gasoline and two diesel variants (105? 210 hp). An equipment line, but seven "packages" for visual and technical features. The most economical diesel consumes 4.4 l / 100 km (CO2: 117 g / km), the cheapest price is 23 625 euros.
