Comments on: Goodbye Citi Golf…

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uberVU - social comments — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:22:06 +0000

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By: Jaco

Jaco — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:52:08 +0000

Siphiwo Siphiwo
Nobody is forcing you to like the car, you see it is a matter of preference.
“Yep, it has taken soo many innocent lives as well. That, too, will go a long way in our hearts and minds” -that is a totally and utterly irrelevant comment. There are thousands of models of cars on the road, and bloody taxis take more lives than any one of them- besides that, accidents do happen so that could be applied to ANY car. It is also a matter of who is driving and under what conditions. Those are factors that doesn’t cross your mind. Like tom says, you usually miss the point.

By: old, female, paleface

old, female, paleface — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:18:49 +0000

I bought the first ever from – “Can load everything including the kitchen sink” adverts of VW Golf. Citi was the suped-up offspring.
It was my 3rd car in 1970+ ? It cost all of R2000.00. It had front wheel drive, steering as heavy as a tank, took 5 mins to get to top gear, let alone any speed. Every car could pass it effortlessly. BUT it could cart everything, even furniture.
It used up Radiators faster than front tyres (let us not go there) and by 1994, servicing cost more than 3 times its original cost.
AND to add to my misery – I had exchanged a mini missile for this clunker.

I stupid to sell my Mini-Austin that passed everything on the roads in the 1960′s and dropped behind everything on the hills. Oh yes – my 3 teenagers complained.
Now THAT was a car and seeing them now rejuvenated – is de ja vu of my hey days.
It accelerated and maneuvered like a motor bike and my eldest daughter’s future husband was terrified to ride with me being “hell on wheels.”

Those were the days.

By: tom

tom — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:44:58 +0000

Yes, we’ll miss the citi – its departure perhaps goes hand in hand with the passing of our youth and, for some of us, the exciting entry into the world of adulthood. I’ve driven across the country many times in mine – Siphiwo Siphiwo, you seem to miss the point – a bit of nostalgia’s good for the soul – but then again, you miss the point about everything, it seems. tough luck , buddy.

By: Marko

Marko — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:33:42 +0000

A true Legend coming to its end…
True facts made by Jaco’s comment!!!

By: Siphiwo Siphiwo

Siphiwo Siphiwo — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:43:09 +0000

jaco

“…it has helped you one way or another in your life”

Yep, it has taken soo many innocent lives as well. That, too, will go a long way in our hearts and minds,

By: Jaco

Jaco — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:53:23 +0000

It’s funny how people criticize the most successful and highest selling car in South Africas automotive industry’s history.
Just so “by the way” the citi golf range saved VW SA from a financial disaster. And today, do not sound too surprized to hear how VW SA is flourishing, even with export customers. Think twice before you jump off and bad mouth this little diamond, it has helped you one way or another in your life.

By: Siphiwo Siphiwo

Siphiwo Siphiwo — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:02:55 +0000

Good riddance of this bad rubbish with stiff stirring wheel, thin doors, zero security features, unrealiable brakes, easy to manipulate speedometer, spaceless dinosaur. I’m glad that VW has finally taken heed from Toyota with its Tazz dinosaur.

Polo classic/playa still my favourate “entry level” vehicle.

By: Sphelele Mkhz

Sphelele Mkhz — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:33:34 +0000

Death to the Citi Golf, now would the people who keeps giving birth to taxi drivers stop having sex. This is is not funny anymore. lol.

By: Sphelele Mkhz

Sphelele Mkhz — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:30:10 +0000

@Muzi, I second that. It performed it’s function, I got my wish this year or I may be clairvoyant.

I’m tired of the new Citi Golf every year it’s the same thing but they call it ‘new’. They keep changing one feature per year. One year they change the tail light design, the next they change the dashboard. From Citi Golf to Velociti to Death. Good riddance!