Hardly holistic. And by 1997, the Golf was already coming around to its fourth generation... which means the old Mk2 GTI was... uh, perhaps held to a lower standard in terms of crash safety.

This MK2 GTI from 1989 seems like a good choice ... to the still showroom-fresh consortium of buttons and the Golf ball gear lever, it’s mint. OK, so there are a few specks of dust and dirt ...