It's hard to explain

[blutopless2]

I had my first interest in vdubs when i was a teen... people i played squash with at the time had some beetles and they used to drive them everywhere, work on them themselves etc, one also (i later found out) had a porsche 356A in really good condition till it was written off... so my first car was going to be a beetle... but that never eventuated.... i started out with *resisting the urge to spew here* holdens etc... then dabbled in subaru and mazda and never really considered vdubs until my wife wanted to look at a new beetle cabrio way back in 2003... well we bought that cabrio (and still have it) and since have added a 1957 oval beetle, a 1974 beetle, had a 2007 polo GTI, and our daily drivers are currently a Jetta and Tiguan.... so you could say i've had the vdub bug all along... but its manifested itself as a serious obsession since getting the cabrio...
but you're right... its the way of life around the vdubs that makes it great to own them... meeting forum members, meeting interstate club members at events... we have met great people over the years and consider some to be among our really good friends... and all because we own a VW.
Something that usually stands out above all else is how much people within the VW forums and clubs are willing to help each other out.

[Smead]

For me I was doing a course with a mate who drove a Beemer. At the time I was driving (cough) a VU V8 ute (cough) So riding in the Beemer got me thinking on Euro cars. I looked around for an affordable Hot hatch, and after discarding thoughts of the Astra turbo hatch and a few others, i settled on a VW Polo GTI (9N3) and have never looked back since.

[Bflat]

For me I was doing a course with a mate who drove a Beemer. At the time I was driving (cough) a VU V8 ute (cough) So riding in the Beemer got me thinking on Euro cars. I looked around for an affordable Hot hatch, and after discarding thoughts of the Astra turbo hatch and a few others, i settled on a VW Polo GTI (9N3) and have never looked back since.

Do you find you can't help but notice almost every other VW out there now?

[Cookie28]

Yes with ten characters...

[ffoff]

about 4-5 years back my next door neighbour had a mk4 TDI golf, he never shut up about it and I kinda liked the look of them. until I saw what a mk3 looked like and then mk1's haha.

now I have a mk3 2.0, and 2 mk1's. and I'm only 19 and struggle to keep the mk3 on the road haha.

[Buller_Scott]

now I have a mk3 2.0, and 2 mk1's. and I'm only 19 and struggle to keep the mk3 on the road haha.

that's pretty hardcore....

ever since i was 15, i just loved everything about the VR6 golf.... mum went to look at a 6n polo, and i saw the vr, and absolutely fell in love with it.

11 years later, i finally managed to find one in reasonable nick, but then maintenance problems ensued, i had to get a workshop to work on them ($$$$$) because i didnt have the space to work on it myself (on-street parking in fitzroy), and then when everything finally looked like it was coming together, i crashed it into a traffic light pole going around a corner (gotta love VAG understeer + stupidity).

i was set on a fiesta XR4 as my next car, but saw a tuned polo gti in action and said "i gotta gets me one of those!". test drove both the gti and the tdi, and i just liked the tdi's driveability better, low down in the rev range.

if ever i get a place with a decent garage where i can work on stuff properly, and leave things dismantled for days at a time without worrying that things will get rained on, or blown away, or lost, i'd love to get something a little unique to cruise around in - be it a mk2, or an early model polo (or a 6n2, for that matter), or a caddy delivery-van-come-dubwagen...

mk1's are a little too hardcore for someone who lacks patience and gumption like i do,

[Wolfgang]

While having more of a think about this I remembered that I seriously considered a Golf VR6 as my first car, couldn't find a decent enough example at the non existent budget I had, ended up with a Twin Cam Corolla instead. Then came close to buying a Passat 4Motion few years back, bought a Liberty instead. So I guess you could say the interest was always there but it just took me a while to actually buy one.

[GRN_VAGN]

Most people wouldn't be able to have a mk 1 as a daily though. Not for everyone.

If its lightly modded, or stock they are great i reckon.
I prefer to drive my mk1 with the family most days. unless its a long trip, or im having shoulder problems then i use the Coon .

But yes i find myself trying to park next to other VW's, or if one drives past i wonder if any parts off it would fit my Mk1 ahhaa.

Would love a type 3 next.

[Ben J]

I'd always liked the look of golfs when I was (even more) young, and my friends mum had a mk5 tdi and it was nice. When looking for my first car though I never really considered one, as I thought they were all just slow little things unless you got a turbo, which I couldn't drive for a few more years. So I went researching fast p-plate legal cars and stumbled upon the vr6 golf... did a bit of a search to see if it really existed as around here I'd never seen one and fell in love. Surely enough probably 8 months was spent researching them and other Volkswagens before making a trip to sydney, test driving about 6, and driving a mint mk3 vr6 back to Toowoomba. In this time I grew a mass appreciation for other VW's and hope to one day have a mk1 project aswell. Any VW on the road, weather it be a plain mk5 being driven by a 60 year old, a ratty mk3/4 or something tastefully modded (of which I've probably only seen about 1 other in Toowoomba) catches my eye.

This little car now consumes practically 100% of my spare time, not to mention money. But I love it.

[Wolfgang]

This little car now consumes practically 100% of my spare time, not to mention money. But I love it.

Same as being in a relationship then.