Vauxhall Nova GTE 2.0 Turbo Review

Overall Rating

Instant "rude" status! Good for some. Fast (with major spending). Possibly look classy with different shell and engine???

Nova dosing is bad for your health.
Rozzers will love to follow you.
Cheap like a box of matches, some young kids like to play with those too?
You destroy any class you once had.
Destroy any respect from people with class.
Destroy yourself in the most minor of tipples with a kerb or lampost!
Any girl you attract will give you several STD's.
Remember the saying: Its easier to melt down an old rusty iron gate and make a new one, rather than to try paint it up and it still look s**t.

It is worth modifying a golf mk2 more than a nova, as a graduate Engineer I know that golfs are built stronger and last better, however any car nacks up if u dont look after it. For many people the mk2 has more class and is acceptable for a person who has a second car such as a BMW, or Lotus Elise to own a nice wolfsburg edition golf, they are just as classy, if done tastefully (ie no stickers and blue lights on the bonnet). Check out the ones at Http://awesome-gti.com/ Novas always look rude no matter how they are done up, however golf mk2 has potential to look v classy, i would rather a nice one than many new cars on the road today, and i could afford a subaru if i wanted; but i dont think they have nowhere near the class of my resprayed bbs alloyed 16v-g60 2.0lt wolfsberg! (200bhp) But live and let live i guess with the nova nuts and subaru nutts etc. The fact is someone will always have a faster car (maybe this nova could out do mine?) I dont care really... has it got air con, electric.... mirrors/sunroof/windows, dvd, tv, leather recaros? There are not many tasteful modifed cars out there! People like tac for some reason??? why why why!! Show me a classy nova and i will eat my words. For me German quality is the way to go. Other cars are ok? (it depends on your values and class really). Do you enjoy a sip of fine red wine or 6 skol???

Members' Comments onThe Truth.'s Review

• everthorpe on 17th Sep 2003

  you the man

• Astra2 on 23rd Feb 2004

  Take off the blinkers Mr Wolfsburg. Look beyond Max Power and McDonalds and take a look at Migweb or the VxLSCC and there will be plenty of Novas on there looking fairly classy. No kidding. These cars actually do have some sensible owners!
  
  What is it with VW people any way. I have owned about 6 VW's and sure they are well built and classy, but in comparison to my Astra GTE 16v the Golf MK2 16v GTi was positively limp and boring! How many MK2 Golfs desimated all in GpN rallying? H'mm that'll be none then. How many Nova's? Speak to Harry Hockley and Bill Byldenstein about that.................may open the eyes a little.
  
  And what is it with Wolfsburg Edition? All VW's are Wolfsburg Editions are they not. They were pretty much all built there. So why not simply stick a MADE IN sticker on your car. Gets to the point doesn't it?! BMW don't make Bavarian Editions do they? Think they have more to shout about too don't they......................
  
  Rant over for now ;-)

• Astra2 on 23rd Feb 2004

  Oh, and you know a lot about your own car...........if it is a genuine 5 door G-Ladder powered 16v engine (NOT A G60 as they were 8v engined) "MOTORSPORT EDITION" it will be producing a healthy 241bhp NOT 200bhp and you will have one of the rarest cars VW have produced. It was not a called a Wolfsburg Edition though.
  
  Not all MK2's are on this level though are they so not the fairest of comparisons. I have seen some really dodgy MK2 GTi's too..................

• Astra2 on 23rd Feb 2004

  Sorry fella, got my numbers confused. That was 210bhp supercharged KR unit, 4wd, five door, BBS split rims. Top end 142mph.
  
  The G60 Wolfsburg Edition as you put it was not 2litre, not 16v, but it was a 1.8 8v G60 as per any normal one.
  
  So which of these was yours??????