Review - VW Velociti 1.4i 2005
Herewith my own personal review of the car I have been driving for the last 3 and a bit years. Thought this might be a cool idea for people to do, once they have been driving a car for a while, to aid prospective buyers in making the right decision in choosing a new or second hand car.
My Velo is an early 2005 model with about 46000km on the clock. It was bought then because the bank insisted that we get a new vehicle if they were going to finance it and the Velo was the best car we could find at the time for the money.
New, it cost R85k. Now i think the CitiStorm or Citisport range come close to being the same thing.
What I like:
--> Sports dashboard, 'racing' pedals and steering wheel
--> Fun to drive
--> Plucky 1.4i engine
--> Comes with 15" mags standard
--> Sits nicely on the road and the seats are comfy even on long drives
--> Lowered suspension
--> Twin exhausts give the car a nice purr
--> Decent stock cd player and speakers
--> Rev counter ( might be standard in most cars now, but it wasn't always)
--> Replacement parts and services are cheap
What I dislike
--> Poor fuel economy for such a small, basic car ( I get around 500km off a tank in the city)
--> No safety features whatsoever
--> Poor build quality (what you would expect from a 30 year old design)
--> No power steering which makes steering quite heavy, especially when the wide 15" tires start losing tread
--> No aircon. Not even as an option
--> Very easy to and prone to being stolen (mine was stolen twice)
--> Not very unique seeing as every second car is one
I love driving and I have really enjoyed driving my Velo over the last three years. I do feel, however, that for the money, it is very difficult to recommend anyone to buy one. For the same money you could get a decent new small car with aircon and power steering and all the bells and whistles.
If you just enjoy driving for the sake of it, then I would say go with the Velo - the ride is surprisingly nippy, considering it only has a 1.4 engine, the tires are grippy, and the lowered suspension really helps around fast bends.
For a more everyday runabout I would certainly say look elsewhere.
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Originally Posted by hj2k_x
What are you driving now?
) so then it went into "SAFE" mode and wouldn't let me do anything. 
. Also, according to the manual, each CD player gets 'bonded' to each specific car, as an anti-theft initiative, such that you should only have to enter the PIN the day you buy the car and thereafter, the car 'remembers' the CD player or vice versa and no PIN is needed. Well, this is clearly NOT the case.
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