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haha thanks Silver, that was actually the one I was thinking of when I started this post. The insurance is just too much considering I would park the car underground, cover it and do no more than 2,000 miles a year! The best I was quoted was £200 more than I was paying for my black GTI three years ago, when younger and doing up to 10,000 miles a year. So I've put it off for now and will put the money to better use.

Thanks all for the later responses. I will hold off for the time being! Buying the current car new hasn't done me any favours so am sticking with it for now! Scirocco, if I had the space I would start a collection too!

That's good advice, thanks!

Hi everyone, So I am considering buying a Lupo GTI when I find one with under 40,000 miles (there are a couple still I think!). Do you think it would make a good investment for the future? Is it a future classic? I had one two years ago but if I find another one it would be doing no more than 2,000 miles per year. With insurance being between £300 & £500 per year, it would have to go up in value by at least £1,500 in the next five years to make it worthwhile. There's Mr or Mrs Scirocco on here with the 05 2,000 miler, but that's a seriously long term investment as it cannot be worth more than about £7K today, so about £6K down on the new price for now. What does everyone reckon?

Just seen this parked up again on the same road this morning. Not anyone on here then?

Spotted last Saturday morning by me and again yesterday by a friend who thought it was my old car. Think it was GP 04 ***. Has black badges, Cambridge rear lenses and red piping on the front. Any takers?

OK ta, no I'm not very mechanically minded. Thanks for the response though. I'll get them to take it to a local specialist.

Hi all, Am visiting friends in Bristol who have shown me that their little workhorse Lupo 1.0E doesn't have a reverse gear. It engages with no problem but there's no bite and the car rolls forward a bit (as if first has been engaged) although that could be due to a slight decline. Does anyone have any suggestions, before they take the car in? Thanks!

Yeh it came about, as I am sure some of you are aware, for the fact that the Mk2 Golf was going to be out of many people's reach due to the slight weight and price gain. VW SA managed to get Germany to allow them to keep the MK1 tooling going, and the production line was kept. Indeed, VW SA set up tooling to make one of the dash improvements in the early 1990s, but Germany said "no way are you making changes to it" so it wasn't until a good few years later when VW SA were permitted to update the dash to the Lupo/Polo look, and then finally the Bora/Fabia/Golf look that lasted until 2009.

Whilst I was in SA for the second half of March for a friend's wedding, I stopped off at the AutoPavillion museum at the VW factory in Uitenhage. Entry price was a horrendous ZAR 10 (80p). Hope you like: Amaroks parked outside: A common sight in UK university towns: Inside a V5 Beetle: Internal project, a 1.8T Citi Golf: Corrado: Last Citi Golf ever built, 2009, signed by employees: Last ever Citi Golf 1.4 engine built, October 2009: Shot from upstairs:

I was in South Africa for the second half of March for a friend's wedding. As Citi Golfs are still common as muck there, I thought I would snap a few! haha! This was spotted in a university town (not sure if a Citi Golf or MK1?): Then, at a dealer elsewhere, I saw this blue 2009 model for sale, and a couple of older models further back: Just under £7,000 approx at present, so cars are expensive over there! Two older models:

Evening everyone. Popped by my local dealer after work an hour ago to take a couple of pics of their Up! Got a peak of the inside as a salesman was about to move it as I was leaving. Didn't think much of it. This particular car had that optional nav screen which took the price of this one to £10,000 said the guy. In my opinion the Lupo GTI, well in fact the Lupo in general, still looks the superior car. Also took pics of the new Beetle in the showroom: and back on topic, ish, a Spanish Lupo GTI, seen in Madrid in January: Enjoy!

Hiya, Looked over my shoulder in the minicab this afternoon to have a quick look at a 2005 Lupo GTI in black as we were leaving T5 arrivals. Nice!

Hiya, They are available in 1.2TFSI, 1.4TFSI 122PS & 185PS & 1.6TDI so far.

London - Madrid - London Hello again all, Thought I'd pop in and say hello. Am sorry to have missed that advert for the 2005 GTI! Who am I kidding anyway... I don't have anywhere to keep it! The "proper" A1 is going well; I picked it up about a week after the above post and now I've done about 4,500 miles in it after a cheeky little drive to Madrid. I had holiday booked off work but with nowhere to go. I was going to go to Cyprus with a uni mate, who bailed out due to the cost of having just moved flat etc, so I took it upon myself to take my toy and drive to Madrid to stay with my cousin for nine days. Thought I would take a few photos to show you the trip. My one moan of the whole trip though is France itself. Yes, it's ruddy expensive, and I believe that no matter how many times I consulted viamichelin.co.uk before I left, it would never have quite prepared me for the amount of money I was going to chuck away on damn road tolls. Damn them. I haven't the guts to check the stash of receipts I had filling up the armrest, but I reckon it was at least €100 each way just on the tolls. Monday 22nd Aug - Thurs 1st September Figures at the end. Awaiting train departure. First waypoint is French stopover: Fifteen mins of Alan Partridge: Stopping for coffee somewhere just the other side of Rouen: Arrival at stopover for Monday night. Arrived about 1530 I think. €62 for the night plus €7 for brekkie, which was worth it so I didn't have to stop off later. Comfortable place and parking right outside the room (great for someone so car-anal such as myself!): Shortly after departing French stopover on the Tuesday morning. I wanted to go to San Sebastian for a spot of lunch before heading down to Madrid. Beer & ham in the boot before departure: Filled up and ready to head back yesterday morning. I really fancied flying home at the thought of doing this again! As I crossed back into France I thought I might try and do the whole lot in one go. I hadn't booked anywhere to stay in France and was instead just going to stop for a couple of hours in one of their many picnic/layby areas but instead phoned a friend to look up early AM train times for me, so I headed up with the intention of getting the 0325 train as opposed to my booked 0750. Missed the early one but ended up sussing out the back seats as a bed and snoozed for 30 mins until my 0529 train. After 16 hours travelling it was comfortable enough in the back! Shot from Calais this morning after checking in and being greeted by the lovely UK border control: (yeh the passenger door isn't shut properly) All in all, it was a great trip and I'm glad I've done it. On reflection the £477 return to Cyprus now seems like a steal! I wouldn't do it on my own again though as it does get a little boring even with new scenery and 16GB ish of music on an SD card. I would certainly do it again though. Figures (not scientific you understand) & info: French stopover, near Nantes: http://www.booking.c...9572413;srpos=1 Petrol approx £316 not including about €40 used whilst driving about Madrid. Average exch. rate on my EUR currency card of 1.1233 and the last fill up of €70 was paid for on the bank card so exch. rate as yet unknown but for sake of argument we'll say I paid for it on the EUR card. 95 unleaded used all the way apart from first fill up yesterday morning when leaving Madrid, where I put in a tank of 98. Outbound: 3.5 tanks Inbound: almost 3 tanks Tunnel £138 return (no sign of the summer £44 return deal they were still advertising in mid August - not even at the times of day I was travelling - the cheeky buggers) Travel insurance about £13. Best mileage on a tank working roughly in my head approx 410 miles. Best avr. MPG I saw when I checked using the scroll wheel: 45.4 Approx Route: Outbound: Calais/Rouen/Le Mans/Angers/Cholet (stop, nr Nantes)/Angouleme/Bordeaux/San Sebastian/Burgos/Madrid Inbound: Madrid/Burgos/San Sebastian/Bordeaux/Poitiers/Orleans/Paris (with sneak peak at Eiffel Tower, traffic v. bad too at 0030 this morning)/Amiens/Calais Total trip miles: 2385. Non stop inbound trip 1,068 miles door to door, 17h 20m. Sticking to speed limits (or 10km/h below) on cruise control nearly all the time, each way. Best features on car: Having digital speedo read in km/h and the sat nav's special destination "in vicinity of route" feature, to ensure as few fuel stops a

Hi Nicki, Indeed there have been a couple of similar situations reported on the A1 forum whch I think you will have seen. You would have thought they would try and get it right the first time around! JamesTdi, mine's a 1.4 petrol. I guess mine will make a good piece of used stock as dealers seemed to have ordered 1.2 and 1.6 in their drogues for dealer stock by what I can see on Pistonheads, so a well specked 1.4 S-line with 3,500 miles on it might sell quite quickly. DZ, have not planned on going to any shows this year, but might look to going to one if south of Birmingham.... would need to get a "my last car woz a Lupo" sticker first! After visiting dealer for plate change yesterday, my new one has landed in the UK apparently and has the "supersports" seats which I'm a little worried about... think they're now trying to over compensate for the mess up. Much rather they'd give me the TT-RS/S3 wheels I've been asking about for the last nine months!

Great, pleased to hear it. I often think about it, especially when I see about a metre long bit of yellow line in town on a Sunday on which I can no longer fit! Yeh with the mess up (that I noticed when I went to collect it) I had to go to the back of the queue as it was ordering a whole new car. As they're paying the extra for Audi Exclusive, I wanted to go for a different colour interior, but thought about resale, so plumped for black!

haha brilliant, was wondering how it's getting on in the cold! Hope you're enjoying the car! A1 is lovely but it's a mis-build (no leather seats!) so I am told my "proper" car has now been built and I should have it within a couple of weeks. T

Was browsing Autotrader at work today looking at Lupo GTIs and thinking back to the glorious three years of ownership! Sold October 2010: Took delivery November 2010: Clocking up 3,300 miles now. Do miss the Lupo though.

Laser Blue Lupo GTI, LD55 *** spotted leaving the Esso garage on Finchley Road this afternoon. Nice.

Thanks for the replies. I rarely use the rear windscreen de-mister anyway so I don't think the mirrors being heated is too important. As one of my mates said, the more stuff in the wing mirrors (heated, electric, electric folding, indicators etc) the more expensive they are to replace when they get knocked off or broken by another car! I haven't gone for heated mirrors anyway now. My Lupo is still for sale and is in the "for sale" section of this site. Cheers.

Does the Lupo GTI have heated mirrors as standard? I am guessing it does. They are optional on some newer cars so I want to know if I need to get them on my next car. Are heated mirrors really necessary do you reckon?

I spotted this Lupo last night and my mouth fell open! Lovely colour on this car. Now who fancies buying my black 54 reg so I can run this blue one for a few months?!

Morning all, I'm going to get the car washed today and, weather permitting, am going to give it a good ol' polish myself afterwards. I need to go to Halfords to stock up on some stuff, but instead of going for the usual Autoglym Super Resin Polish (red label) and the Meguires I already use, can anyone suggest a different product for me to try out? Or do I go for Autoglym again AND their Ultra Deep Shine (for black cars)? If it makes a difference, I have an orbital polisher and will be doing the valet in a covered car park. Look forward to trying something different!

No, not any longer!