Volkswagen Golf - COTY

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Mon 4 Mar 2013 18:13
Volkswagen Golf - COTY - Cluedo

Looking at the recent news the VW Golf has been named COTY - having driven the new Golf I think it is ok but not really sure that it should have won COTY by such a comprehensive margin.

Is the market that bad that such a car wins by so much or do people think it is really that good.

It achieved 414 of the 1450 votes on offer.

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Mon 4 Mar 2013 18:57
Volkswagen Golf - COTY - jamie745

Call it the Skoda Cricket and it doesn't win.

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Mon 4 Mar 2013 23:01
Volkswagen Golf - COTY - Avant

It may not be outstanding in any one area but according to the tests I've seen, it achieves an all-round high standard so that for many people it may be all the car they ever need. And Jamie's point about the Focus in Happy Blue's thread applies equally to the Golf.

At least the judgements are made on more rational grounds than sometimes they used to be. In 1978 the Chrysler Horizon won simply because the top model - which wasn't available in the UK - had a trip computer, said to be the first on a mass-produced car.

I bought a new Horizon when they first came out, as it seemed to have more room for the family than the Golf (Mark 1) and was a bit cheaper. I realised fairly soon that I should have had the Golf and made the family travel lighter.

Edited by Avant on 05/03/2013 at 00:07

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Tue 5 Mar 2013 09:08
Volkswagen Golf - COTY - Trilogy

The 1982 COTY was the Renault 9. Quite how is anyone's guess!

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