I've never really been interested in mainstream cars, preferring unrefined two seaters, although I've had one occasionally, and a Golf since 2001, well, two Golfs.....
Our epiphany was at the beginning of our Scottish tour in June 2014. The weather forecast on the day we set off, was for torrential rain. The longer range forecast was for torrential rain - some of the time. Up to that point we would probably have sighed, and put the luggage in the Golf.
This time we didn't. The whole point of buying Bumble was for touring, so it made no sense to take the Golf. At the end of that trip, having had the full 'Morgan in Scotland experience' - which involves getting wet (a lot), we both decided that it would have been a huge mistake to take the Golf.
And having done the trip to BHM in the day both in the Golf, and in the Morgan we both concluded that there's no comparison.
So now, we have become "all-weather long distance tourers".
When I first bought my Roadster I continued to use it as I had used my MG's - so quite selective, avoiding wet weather where possible, and that's why we only had the roof up once in the first six years - although we did get wet occasionally.
Now we just use either no matter what the weather forecast, and it really doesn't seem to have had any effect on the Roadster. It still shines up well.
Although it's handy to have a runabout car, and MrsW's ('04) Polo does that well, we could manage without the Golf and in some ways I wonder if I should have bothered with it.
