If money was no object

[cupraglasgow]

Was wondering if you asked a car manufacturer to build an older model that is no longer in production would this be possible like a brand new Mk 1 Golf Gti

[Prof Prolapse]

Wasn't there a company in South Africa building cars from the Golf Mk1s template until very recently?

[ikarl]

Stratos for me please!

[SuperchargedVR6]

MK1s are still being made in South Africa I think, or maybe Brazil.

Delta Integrale probably.

[MatthewO]

or


2 fairly different cars, i'll admit

I have a mk1 golf - if VW were to re-make them, they'd better do a more thorough job of it

ETA: Mk1 golf 'CITI' was made under license in South Africa until 2009

[TEKNOPUG]

No, because they already make one.

Go to South Africa and buy a Citi Golf.

[real4star]

Brazil produced the really old VW's (They stopped producing Beetles and Campers not that long ago).

300SL Gullwing and a MK1 GTi for me too

The difficulty would be getting it to pass all the modern EU safety and construction regulations.

Although low volume production and imports do get some 'wiggle room'

Edited by real4star on Friday 21st December 15:42

[Muzzer79]

cupraglasgow said:

Was wondering if you asked a car manufacturer to build an older model that is no longer in production would this be possible like a brand new Mk 1 Golf Gti

If they still had the tooling I guess it could be done, if not they could hand-build it.

It would be ££££ though.

Look at The Sultan of Brunei - Ferrari 456 Estate sir? Bentley Dominator sir? Ferrari Mythos sir? RHD F40s/F50's sir?

No problem sir. Make your cheque out to.....

[cocopop]

If money was truly no object I'd resurrect TVR and use them to produce my personal fleet, and sell cars really cheaply to PHers.

Yeah I know that everything's supposedly gone, but money no object, they'd instantly have a bigger budget than VAG.

[Prof Prolapse]

SuperchargedVR6 said:

MK1s are still being made in South Africa I think, or maybe Brazil.

I'd heard they'd punched so many panels now the moulds were getting too worn out!

[TEKNOPUG]

I think SA stopped in 2009. Sure that you could find a very low mileage one.

Also, for most cars from the last 30 years, with the exception of the shell, you can still buy all the parts. So no reason why you couldn't build yourself a "new" one. OK, you may have to recondition the gearbox and probably start with a used block/head etc.

[JimmyTheHand]

[Mars]

[jcelee]

Anyone driven a South African Golf CTI ? The lower spec (1.3 ?) car I hired out there was awful...

[TEKNOPUG]

jcelee said:

Anyone driven a South African Golf CTI ? The lower spec (1.3 ?) car I hired out there was awful...

Should have paid a bit more to have the CTR-32 model. Lots of fun.

[Ari]

Mars said:

This, but the Spyder, in black.

[sparks_E39]

Aston Martin DB5. But I think I'd prefer an actual 1964 example, the age of the car is part of the charm.

[Ozzie Osmond]

MatthewO said:

You'd think a Boxster could be rebodied to look like that.

[whoami]

DB4 Zagato.

[HTP99]

Ari said:

Mars said:

This, but the Spyder, in black.

This was taken a few months ago, it was being sold by a colleagues brother, £300k he was asking for it.







As for what old car new, I think it would have to be an E30 M3 or a a 993 Turbo

Edited by HTP99 on Friday 21st December 16:17