Where have all the sub £1K Golf VR6's gone?

[ChilliWhizz]

Cheapest around at the moment seems to be over £2K.. I'm guessing they're not going up in value, just fewer left with many having gone to the big dub grave in the sky...

Any thoughts?

[JohnoVR6]

Rot and 'scene-tax' (feel dirty using that word) but the few I've actually seen advertised, are priced massively optimistically - much like anything else of that era. It's 15/20 years old, therefore instant classic. Think 4Star Classic, long-time purveyors of comedy pricing, have one in at 7k. It looks clean, but 7k?!

Pity, I'd love another as I still feel aggrieved to this day at letting my old Highline go for so little

[Henno196]

Having been in the VW 'scene' a few years back, I'd suggest parted out. It used to be the trend to swap the engine and box into mk2 Golfs for an instant power boost, creamy torque curve and that exhaust note, as it wasn't actually that difficult. You could also swap in the wider front and rear wider tracks for an aggressive stance and to fit the bigger 5 stud brakes and wheels, and so any cheap or breaking VR6 was broken down. Then the trend shifted towards the 1.8 20v turbo and any VR6's left gained value as they were rarer, having been saved from breaking or bad boy racer modifications.

[PorkRind]

VW tax?!

[Gypsum Fantastic]

My old one got nicked and written off despite not a massive amount of damage. I can imagine that accounts for quite a few of them disappearing.

[ChilliWhizz]

Just found an article from July 2016 suggesting they're in a group of "affordable future classic cars that are likely to increase in value"

Interesting that the company responsible for the article provides breakdown services


http://blog.greenflag.com/2016/affordable-future-c...

[xjay1337]

The good ones have all got Porsche brakes on them and are trailered to VW shows.
The bad ones are bought and broken as parts for Mk2s.

[daemon]

xjay1337 said:

The good ones have all got Porsche brakes on them and are trailered to VW shows.
The bad ones are bought and broken as parts for Mk2s.

Or are broken and have had their engines dropped in to the likes of this....

[MDMA .]

best left standard ( bar ss exhaust ) - this was my old one. bought and sold it twice it was that good -

[C70R]

By virtue of not being a fantastic car to drive, they became largely unloved. Don't get me wrong, I like them (I think they have a lot of charm), but they aren't in the same league as the best Golfs and not even the best car to be fitted with the VR6.
As a consequence, the bad ones were scrapped/broken/written-off and the good ones were coveted by (delusional) enthusiasts.

[aka_kerrly]

I've said for a long time the best use of a mk3 vr6 is a donor for a mk2 build. Ive harvested 3 mk3 golfs purely for mk2 builds an all cost under under a grand and I could recover most of the purchase price from selling unnecessary parts. I know dozens of others who have done the same!!

Jokes aside the Mk3 golf and the Vento are good cars, they aren't hot hatches, more GTs with long gears an midrange poke.

The vr6 engine gets a hard time from a lot of people but I think it's great, not just the noise, the power delivery is closer to a 4pot 16v than a wide angle V6, plus they rev to nearly 7000rpm. Compared to other similar capacity V6 engines from the era they aren't down on power or torque an if you keep an eye out for a 2.9 vr6 inlet manifold an throttle body you can release some extra power.

[everyeggabird]

MDMA . said:

best left standard ( bar ss exhaust ) - this was my old one. bought and sold it twice it was that good -

.......and wheels.