Blimey, that's good going. Mines only got 40,000 on the clock and apart from the odd trolley dink is in remarkably good condition. However it now seems to fail it's MOT on silly things - mainly due to the lack of use. Always easily and cheaply rectified though. The rear belts were still clipped in from the previous year, and the MOT inspector couldn't believe it had only done 12 miles in 12 months !
Dad bought it new in 1998 at a cost of - wait for it - £12,500 !!!
He decided a couple of years back he wanted to replace it with another brand new one, same spec . That was only around £13,000 !
But then a fellow Land Rover acquaintance of mine offered me his father's Polo. A later model to dad's , all be it by 2 years, but with only 6,000 on the clock from new and receipts for a service every year at VW regardless that it was never driven. So dad took that for £700. He got an upgrade , of sorts , and it was in showroom condition.

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Ours was $19,300 drive away, so roughly the same price as your Polo. Manual everything including windows, no airbags, but it did have air conditioning which still worked brilliantly, better than current car! Used the AC all the time other than the first 10 seconds off at the lights as it sucked a good percentage of the car's 44kW. The AC was a good downhill brake!

A couple of years after we bought it, Seat stopped selling here & VW added the Polo to the range sold here. Today a few dollars more but you get 2 extra doors & 66kW, plus a pile of technology!

If we did not want to go bush we would have bought a new one. Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18

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Here's Mine

Ford Cortina Estate
Hillman Minx
Hillman Hunter
Talbot Solara GLS
Rover V8 3.5 automatic
Rover V8S 3.5 manual
Rover 2000
Fiat 131 Mirafiori Estate
Land Rover series 2 short wheelbase
Land Rover Series 3 Long wheel Base Safari
Vauxhall Carlton
Ford Granada 4x4 2.8 V6
Volvo 850 GLT
Volvo S40
Freelander Series 1 S
Freelander series 2 GS

Wife's
Vauxhall Nova x 2
Citroen Saxo
Rover 214
Rover Streetwise
Vauxhall Corsa ecoflex Freelander 2 TD4 GS 2011 Manual Satorini Black (Current)
Freelander TD4 S 2004 Silver Manual (Gone)
Landrover Series 3 Manual Long Wheel Base Safari (Gone)
Landrover series 2A Manual Short Wheel Base (Gone)
Numerous different vehicles inbetween

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Lot of tin rot boxes in the lists
1937 Wolseley 14
1950 MG Y type saloon version of TD
1964 MG 1100
1965 Ford Corsair V4
1963 Daimler SP 250
1961 Daimler SP 250 both owned at the same time.
1967 Triumph 2000
1965 Morris 1800 landcrab
1964 Triumph Vitesse convertible 1600
1975 Renault 5
1969 Volvo 145
1981 Austin Metro
1978 Volvo 245
1983 Austin Metro
1983 Ford Escort ( ex wrote it off)
1984 Cavalier
1987 Sierra estate
1981 Volvo 245 Auto
1987 Volvo 245
1997 Disco TDi 300 Auto
2006 Kia Sportage
2007 Hyundai SF
2012 Freelander HSE SD my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
2012 HSE SD4 In Orkney Grey now gone, best car ever.