Golf 2 Shipments to Australia

syncro · 14-06-2006, 08:25 PM

Does anyone have any information on how many Golf 2 GTI shipments came to Australia? As far as I know there was a shipment in 1990 and a later one in 1990 or maybe 1991. Most of the Golfs that I have seen are 1990s of which some were not sold until 1992.

Are there anything other than 1990 GTIs here?

**Satanstoenail** · 14-06-2006, 08:33 PM

I've been wondering that myself, I've been told it was 250, someone else told me 200, and last week I was told 120 (Mk 2's sent here). Dunno how many shipments though. I'd like to know which (if any) of these figures is right...

**alex g** · 14-06-2006, 08:46 PM

i have heard the magic 250 number as well but i am sure there is way more, i still see gti's i havent seen before on the road

**Tim** · 14-06-2006, 09:28 PM

yeah they cant be that rare. I see heaps of Mk2 GTIs getting about melbourne. I have seen 1 or two non GTIs. not sure if they were locally delivered cars or not tho. I think there were a couple non GTIs werent there?

**alex g** · 15-06-2006, 05:08 PM

yer gl s are much rarer

syncro · 15-06-2006, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by Tim

yeah they cant be that rare. I see heaps of Mk2 GTIs getting about melbourne. I have seen 1 or two non GTIs. not sure if they were locally delivered cars or not tho. I think there were a couple non GTIs werent there?

All were GTIs. 1990 or maybe 1991 model.

**Golf Loon** · 15-06-2006, 11:36 PM

Originally Posted by syncro

All were GTIs. 1990 or maybe 1991 model.

Yeah but they had 5 doors and came from South Africa. I think they were just getting rid of runout stock before the Mk3 came in. The Aussie GTIs are lower spec that the UK cars. I think they are rebaged gls or ryders rather than true GTIs. (sorry)

I have heard 300 cars from a few sources and 2 shipments I think.

I also see heaps of private imports about and there must have been a company bringing them from South Africa in the 80s cos there are lots of them.

syncro · 16-06-2006, 07:43 AM

Originally Posted by Golf Loon

Yeah but they had 5 doors and came from South Africa. I think they were just getting rid of runout stock before the Mk3 came in. The Aussie GTIs are lower spec that the UK cars. I think they are rebaged gls or ryders rather than true GTIs. (sorry)

I have heard 300 cars from a few sources and 2 shipments I think.

I also see heaps of private imports about and there must have been a company bringing them from South Africa in the 80s cos there are lots of them.

All of the GTIs sold here were made in Germany.
Definately less than 300 were brought in. I have an idea there may have been 150.
A lot of immigrants came from South Africa in the early 90s and they brought their cars with them. (They probably heard that we had the gutless ones here!)
I wouldn't say that they were lower spec than the UK cars, just lower performance. The UK/Euro spec engine did not meet our pollution laws.
The insurance here was definately GTI. Maybe they would have sold more of them if they called them GLIs?

How about some replies from Aussie Golf 2 owners with your build date?
It is on the firewall on a small plate not the compliance plate

**Golf Loon** · 16-06-2006, 10:04 AM

Even Vin Numbers if anyone has em and then we can tell what factory they came out of.

I have owned 3 Mk2s in Oz and they were all South African!

**joshyd-mk2gti** · 16-06-2006, 12:40 PM

my build date is 06/90, complied in 10/90 and first registered in 1991.

does anyone have the website where you type in the vin number and it tells you where it was made? i think i remember mine being built in Wolfburg.