Newt5

Just recently got a MKII golf, nothing special, 1.8 8v, no mods, advanced the timing a bit and swiss cheesed the airbox (guy prior).

Anywho, I'm taking my girlfriend up one of the local mountains here for a little drive and right at the bottom I see a 16v Jetta (another MKII) behind me, so I push it a little and he is keeping up in the single lane. Sure enough, double lanes come up and we are both hammered down on the first bend.

First turn is a long almost hairpin and we are doing ~120km or so and I'm actually keeping up to him, which I never would have thought. Then the big uphill straight comes up and off we go again. Ended up about a fender infront of him when I decided to back it off because 160+ up the mountain seemed like a bad idea.

Turns out they were having a VW meet up at the top so I talked to him for a bit and waited while some other guys showed up, then went home. All in all it was a good start to see what my car could do.

ryans ®³

sounds pretty cool. how's the weather up there?

Newt5

Decentish. cloudy today. Went up to Kelowna for the long weekend and it got up to about 40*C

Nytroh

I got a VW Rabbit, and im looking for some VW meets, or any racing meet in general send me a PM if you know any stuff going down

andial951

uhg......MKII, MKIII, MKIV.......what does MK stand for? And how is a golf and jetta both MKII?

Nssn_gt_r

-shrug- Cuz germans cant spell?

XtremeModifier ®²

MK stands for Mark. All mark-1's would have one body style, mark2's would be the next major change. Like C1-C6 with the corvettes ... when there's a major change in the bodystyle, they add one more to the number. Both can be the same because they used similar parts/designs for golf/rabbit and jetta for a long time (I believe they still do...) with the sole difference being one is a hatch, the other is a 4-door sedan. So, instead of saying years (i.e. with an mx6, someone might not know a 4-cyl '92 is very different from a 4-cyl '93, but the same as a 4-cyl '87), so we identify the "generations" only some companies call it Mk#, C#, etc. If there is none specified, it's first-gen, second-gen, third-, and so on. Usually nothing changes mid-gen, there are minor aesthetic and interior changes, sometimes different entertainment, spoiler options, or minor changes to fix previous issues, but usually it stays pretty-much the same.

There, now that I've written a full novel, on for questions, comments, etc.

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Nssn_gt_r

Hmm so tell me about Lincold calling their trucks the mark2 and the phsycological behind that ( ;