golf or bmw

[cleo1]

im thinking of buying BMW 1 series or GOLF TDI peoples wise advice would be welcome

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golf anytime. BMW series 1 is ugly. The two were compared by jeremey clarkson and the gold won on everything.

Personally, BMW's have lost their appeal

[mcb123]

i have a new golf tdi an i love it, its much better lookin than the 1 series, its fast, fun an comfortable, and buying a 1 seires to match the tdis performance would cost you a great deal more, go for the golf

[LauraLou]

I currently work for VW and previously worked for BMW. I am not biased! Go for the Golf, fantastic car with better residuals and cheaper to own. The BMW is nice, but not brilliant. Also harder to sell. Initial deprectation on the BMW worsetoo. Tomorrow I am taking in part exchange a 120d Sport which has lost �8000 in a year.

[cleo1]

thanks for your advice, another other nice four door cars around decent

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Astra (turbo diesel), Focus (TDci or ST), Seat Leon Cupra...

[Thefixor]

Cant comment on BMW but can on the Golf.I have had two MK4 Golfs from new .The first a 1.9 TDI (2000) the second a 1.8 GTI Turbo (2002).Had lots of trouble with the TDI (right pain) I thought it must have been a bad one but still liked the car.Because of this I changed to the GTI. This also a very nice car but once again had trouble with this Golf also.Check round the net and although you will find people who sing the praises of Volkswagon there a lots and I mean lots of people who have had trouble with them.If you take my advise by Japanese, not got the German image but wont let you down and for me reliability comes first evey time.

[kepla]

The answer should be obvious. Like so many of the cheapest cars these days the Golf is front wheel drive. This means that the handling has been severely compromised for the sake of cheaper manufacturing. It will behave dangerously and unpredictably when driving hard round corners, particularly in slippery conditiions. Most importantly, it will be the front wheels which are most likely to loose grip first and that is what is so dangerous. The BMW, like all other cars by BMW, Jaguar, Mercedes, Aston-Martin, Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, Porsche - in fact all cars which are built 'up to a standard' rather than 'down to a price' is rear wheel drive. Just about every BMW advert, for any of their models, makes a big point of the fact that rear wheel drive handle correctly. Unless you are a complete idiot, a RWD car will loose grip on the rear wheels first in limited grip - this is quite easy to correct without actually loosing control of the car, and pretty good fun too (on a track, of course). Avoid anything from the land of the rising yen as they are all invariably front-wheel-drive budget-boxes. The BMW is a REAL car.

[stormcat]

Golf TDI anytime! Had two BMW's before (though not 1 series) just bought new Golf and am sold!

The Golf is fun, safe and wow fantstic on fuel consumption...................You get more for your money as well. The BMW 1 looks ugly and unfinished.