1.8 petrol mountain roads more like 30 mpg :)

To each his own mate, exactly.

I understand your point of view, yet I don't share it at all. I have an immense fun driving this car around, whether it be on mountain roads or busy highways etc. If I die in a crash, at least I died happy instead of dieing behind my phone being too used to an almost self driving soulless hybrid junk on wheels.

To each is own, in my opinion all this assistance stuff has made people careless and worsened their driving skills over the years. Be it ESP, cameras, beeps etc. Not talking about airbags and ABS which are a good thing.

Try texting when your car is a manual, pulls right left depending on tyre size, hasn't the best brakes nor any kind of assistance. This shit takes your full attention and the lack thereof is what causes most accidents.

Yep.

This one's a petrol. 1.8 90hp. I had a golf 2 td aswell. True the gas mileage is incredible, but it lacked a bit of power here on mountain roads. Gf has a 2002 1.9 tdi. 250k km 130hp and 6 speed trans. Beast of a little car (torque wise) and awfully economic aswell.

Nope 1.8 petrol. But gas mileage is OK. I don't daily it anymore.

I had a gtx too. Sold it. Same story, a mess and no power under 4k rpm. Don't like the 16v that much tbh.

EU cars mate. Funny, most of mk2 jettas here are more in the 100k - 200k km range

I only rock 80s 90s VW. Got 5 of them. Thought I'd post the jetta though since it's the best example of BIFL.

Hahah! Hydraulic lifters my friend. Jetta goes tick tick for 10min every other week that I start it up.