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1987 Volkswagen Golf GTI II [Typ 19E] 
Ep. 2.05Class: Cars, Hatchback — Model origin: 
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◊ 2008-12-13 20:09 |
British version? Can this be verified by DVLA? |
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◊ 2008-12-13 22:29 |
Why DVLA is neccessary to identify it as a British version? It had the steering wheel on the right, a British plate and it's shown in a British made TV-series. By the way: over here a plenty of admins and members (me too) are nitpicking withe the "made for"-listing, but have you realized, that the "made for GB" (or AUS, J, M, HN, ZA and so on...) is always missing at RHD-cars? |
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◊ 2008-12-13 22:32 |
It was decided long time ago that we would not use the "made for" for LHD/RHD. This "made for" was to inform the visitor that the name or the style of the car is different due to the fact that it is made for another country (e.g. special headlights, etc.) The fact that the steering wheel is on the other side is well known I think  Nobody would wonder why, by seeing the car(and it would require that all UK cars in non-UK countries are labelled as "made for [something else]" if we follow that...) -- Last edit: 2008-12-13 22:32:31 |
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◊ 2008-12-13 22:45 |
But a conversion from LHD to RHD, whilst the construction of the car is much more complicated than just mounting an extra foglamp (one -and only- reason, why we list cars as "made for Belgium"). To be continued with the "Swedish" lampwashers and other safety-features, the "Italian" white turn signals, the "Italian", "Norwegian" and "Danish" turnsignals on the side an so on. For imported cars to Germany from 1979+we can also add "made for D" (seat belts in the back), also for imported cars 1990+, because of their "Leuchtweitenregulierung" (www.dict.cc says "headlamp beam height control")  And if we want to be real nitpicking "smart asses", we can add "Made for Austria" for some cars (sorry, I don't know the years), which back license-plate-lamp was burning, every time you have used the head lamp flasher. Don't ask me why, but this was indeed a gimmick, federally for Austria. -- Last edit: 2008-12-13 22:46:19 |
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◊ 2008-12-13 23:19 |
Complicated maybe, but for the visitor who sees the picture it has no interest. |
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◊ 2008-12-20 23:49 |
Was this discussion in the Forum? |
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◊ 2008-12-21 21:01 |
I do not remember, but now it is said here |
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◊ 2008-12-25 11:24 |
It's demise:![[Image: s02e05vwgolfmk2endxp7.5460.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is354/s02e05vwgolfmk2endxp7.5460.jpg) |
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◊ 2010-04-15 17:19 |
GTI 1.8 16V GB |
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◊ 2014-08-21 11:12 |
This is my old car, I scrapped it in a scrapyard near Kings Langley/Watford UK in about 2004/05. It had quite an interesting life this motor, it originally was owned by Sir Geraint Evans, then by an old Army Major (Major Batty if I remember correctly), then I bought it at around 215,000 miles. It died in Soho at around 285,000 miles some years later, and some months after that it found its way from the scrap yard I dropped it of at, to being blown up on Brainiac! I remember seeing the episode first time round and have tried a couple of times to find the episode with no luck, then stumbled across this site! Thank you! Here's the YouTube clip if anyone is interested.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKWLlynrKNI&t=1226 Dan -- Last edit: 2017-06-01 11:01:03 |
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