Wrap It Up, Keep It in Cold Storage and Wait. This is a Future Classic Right Here.
The matters of the mind are the ones that count the most. Sounds wise, doesn’t it? It probably holds true in a lot of cases, but just like any other aspect of our fragile lives, the mind is fallible. It’s weak if untrained and is perceptible to snap judgements, more often than not leading to us looking like fools. Where am I going with this sermon? My mind is weak and untrained. It made a snap judgement recently.
I mean, look at it. Would you honestly be able to tell that the car on these pages, setting aside the drama my photographer has managed to capture it in, is something that costs more than three times that of a regular Polo? The idiocy of our duty structure means that Volkswagen isn’t to blame completely here because the GTI comes in as a CBU (or ‘Yay! Pay day!’ as the government refers to it). Simply put, that means you have to pay a hell of a lot more for a car that most will see no point in, and that briefly included me. It wasn’t meant to be like this. The GTI’s intention is, very simply and cheesily put, to give power to the people. It’s not meant to cost as much as a seven-seat SUV (it ironically has only two useable seats). It’s not even meant to figure in the list of things that you wouldn’t look twice at, and yet it does those two very things as seamlessly as a mannequin manages to stay the same weight its whole life.
This story is from the February 2017 edition of Motoring World.
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