Hmm. The Golf would be five door Dean, I find the three door version too heavy and cumbersome on the doors. Interesting that your Golf was unreliable Jay, my Mk1V has been very reliable so far, without wishing to tempt fate.
A real dilemma and it looks like I'll have to try both. I would like to get this car sorted before I start looking at Elises. One thing at a time eh?
JTL - I much prefer the Golf to the A3, although it would go down well with MissW!!!
My mother knows nothing about cars. So much so that we watched her get in the back of a stranger's car at the motorway services once. She didn't realise until he spun round and it wasn't me. Never sen her get out of a car so fast. As we set off I grinned over at him and did the rotating finger at the side of head "She' a nutter" sign. How we laughed.