But many men like it.

There are still the insurmountable problems of the Renault – it’s French (un)reliability, it’s (lack of)resale value, total numbers sold ????? perhaps 40 bumbacks since release. Try and get parts for them in 7 years time. Try and find a mechanic who knows/cares how to repair them – there might be one or two in Melbourne and Sydney.

But when you sell your diesel Golf, its retained value will be excellent, the buyer will know parts will be available, and there are many thousands of them on the roads, so eventual parts availability from wreckers will see a Golf running for 20 years or more. And it will still look good.

Voting with a style heart and buying the Renault will be accompanied by a generous financial hit sooner or later. The driving enjoyment would have to be damn good every day…….

I personally find the Megane to be “Mundane” and so it has stuck. “There goes another mundane!” I say.

BUT… long live choice. The golf is a lovely looking car, but I think that’s because of the variety of cars we see every day. I’d hate for all cars to look like a VW.
Viva La Difference!

Yes, I’m in on the diesel hype. I guess that makes me not terribly smart, hey Booter? Ahh, but check my punctuation.

A 5 year old Golf still looks elegant and classy.

I may have “underdeveloped aesthetic sensibilities” but I’m like most of the population.

Please tell me how many of these insane bum design cars have been sold in AU, and how many Golfs. That should tell you that people vote with their sense of what is stylish and what is rubbish.

Others prefer higher resale and higher build quality too.

Still others dislike anything French because they only just stopped exploding nuclear weapons in our back yard, even though we asked them not to, and they didn’t have a need to.

Styling is subjective. Don’t even bother trying to substantiate an argument with it.

Except that the VW is FAR better looking, and comes with FAR better option of DSG.

French ugg with no resale vs VW beauty with excellent resale – it’s a no-brainer.

cant see any appeal for this car in australia except for all these people who are buying into the diesel marketing hype.

“the right car for the times we live in” …… the CO2 emmissons from this car would be only marginally better than a petrol one so maybe you can sleep better about the environment, or take bus/train/bike or walk to work and actually do something positive.