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Volkswagen Golf GTI

Name: Volkswagen Golf GTI
Brand: Volkswagen

It was well and truly autumnal on my first evening with OY55 GOX; dark early, the courtyard outside the office lashed with wind and rain. I blipped the key-fob from the doorway of the office and, across the car park, the Xenons blinked on like some reassuring lighthouse in a storm.

by: Henry Catchpole

7 Nov 2005

Running Costs

Date acquired	September 2005
Total mileage	1136
Costs this month	£0
Mileage this month	1061
MPG this month	33mpg

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It was well and truly autumnal on my first evening with OY55 GOX; dark early, the courtyard outside the office lashed with wind and rain. I blipped the key-fob from the doorway of the office and, across the car park, the Xenons blinked on like some reassuring lighthouse in a storm.

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