i guess if you only drive around the city, then sure - rock whatever car you think looks cool when you're standing outside it not actually driving it.
i bought my polo tdi for a number of reasons:
a) i go to the snow a lot. $120 per trip to the snow in my dad's (mostly parked) V8 discovery vs. $25 in the polo? just pottering around the city - $140 a week vs. $20? it's a no brainer.
b) i dont have a family, and my car sees me being the only occupant 95% of the time. why do i need a family car? also, yes, fast 'n' furious was an ok movie at the time, but i dont see the need to buy anyone else's sloppy seconds from japan (hacked to the sh7t, then sold off to the used car market for insurance reasons)
c) it's easy to drive in the city (i live in fitzroy, right off the end of the freeway)
d) it's much more fun over reefton spur than than the discovery, or other family cars
e) a good torque / weight ratio is always nice to have.
one thing i dont understand though, is why are hatches considered "girls cars", and big sedans considered "mens cars"???
arent large sedans, with their larger doors, wider, more accessible rear passenger seats and larger boots, more accommodating of the multiple baby seats, more than one pram in the boot, plenty of room for diapers and canisters of baby powder, as well as other things that go along with the whole act of bearing and raising / caring for children?
maybe im missing something, but if i were someone who had given birth to children, and was faced with the task of caring for them all day / carting them around with me safely, as well as all their associated bits n pieces, what better car to drive than a large sedan - a very effective (family) woman's car, really.
at the risk of pissing spyda off a little more, i DID used to cop A LOT of flack at work about driving a VW, by guys who didnt have a fcking clue what a gti or r32 was. all the time, they'd praise for'den, and rip on VW just because it is (to them) different.
funny what magazine test results can do - they all seemed to shut the fck up when i one day said "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sh7t!!!!!!!!!!! your beloved supercharged WP VE - 2:17 around eastern creek in the dry, the HP GTI (fwd) - 2:01 in the WET!!!! ohhhhhhhh fck do you know how fcking bad that is? does the word 'brutal' or 'devastating' even BEGIN to describe that kind of utter obliteration?!?!?!".
VW's arent bad cars. some people DO struggle to come to terms with the fact that they are NOT a "prestige" brand, but rather the toyota of germany, but that's something for them to deal with.
i fly so low under the radar with my bog stock looking polo, that no one on the road gives me sht. they might pick on me (tail me), but that usually ends up with them receiving a 5 second blast of black smoke which reduces their vision to near zero in an instant, which makes them back off as they're frightened that they'll crash into something they cannot see, right in front of them. works like a treat.
