I have a 306 and adore it - but to most friends and family, I‘d recommend the Golf as well. Few people can appreciate the incredible chassis of the 306 and then the Golf is from another planet when it comes to all the fit and finish details. For me? I’ll keep my 306 forever.
Seim Old DickHead I’d rather have the mk3 much better shape and the vr6 high lines are going for a fair bit of money now. Better still I prefer my Mk1 Gti.
As a gti6 owner yes the 306's RFS engine is very reliable, but the golf's 20VT engine is also super good. They won't die easily and can hold a nice amount of horses on stock engine components.
You are literally putting a 306 GTI, a car with rally pedigree and born to be a Rally missile, against two cars that are just "lets go shopping" cars xD
If they can get performance and economy from a diesel, it's worth having. Nobody can beat a small sized, German diesel engine especially in a Golf, Passat or even Audi A3/A4.
I'll admit that I don't necessarily like the way its back is cut when you look at it from the side. But I really like the way it looks from behind. And the rear lights have a nice configuration too. The round red lights with indicators in them are really nice. Other manufacturers have tried that since then but they either don't look good or you can't really see the indicator's orange light when it's on. There's no such problem in bravo because the brake lights are separate...
So many mk4 Golf GTIs still on the road now. Never see any Pug 306 or Fiat Bravo GTIs or non GTIs for that matter...slower isn't always the worst choice. Besides a remap can see late mk4 Golf turbos get 210hp with no other mods.
can anyone here help me naming the the song that's heard in the end of the video (from 7:38 to 8:04) I d really appreciate that..I ve been trying to identify this song since a long time and found it in this video by coincidence! thanks
No they're not, I've owned 3, Audi A4 1.9TDIs and I can say that the engines are absolutely bulletproof. I bought my first one for £350, with 150k on the clock, and it run with only 1 fault, until the clock reached 234k. (the fault was a snapped timing belt) Then I bought another one, with 140k on the clock, no faults up until 200k, it had no faults at all. Then, my current 2002 A4, has had no faults and I've done around 22,000 miles in it. Try tell me 1.9 tdi engines aren't reliable.
I didn't own a Mk4 GTi but I did have the 170bhp V5. That was a terrific engine, but the rest of the car was a let down. Especially in terms of reliability and handling.
Ive bought same 4 series Golf with 200000+kms and now its nearly at 300k+ and belive me as i use Cars like worst then bitches golf got all my respect ✌️ most reliable engines
yeah? and HAVE you driven jtd's? my bro had a 400 000km honda with rover engine - only diesel pump changed , no tubro issues, regular service. my dad use to have tdi - 2 turbos in 250000km and i drive a jtd - no turbos, no pumps, WAY economical... pls dont.. i know these engines... not to mention the 2.5 tdi ov vw is probably the most expencive engine to run called "dushegub" (soulsteeler) in my country because its more expencive to service than the entire car... and thats EVERY year.
@@Ale_Badu - listen to what? I can’t hear the engines in the video but regardless, in sound department 5 cylinders wins hands down. I’m not interested in raw performance, I grew up and I’m not into boy racing anymore. 20 hp difference is not a deal breaker for me, I have other priorities now.
@@spavatch Has been past 8 years, that i made that comment.. and if you not interested in performance, maybe need to look a vw, slow, but confortable (sorry, in that point, Peugeot, wins), vw... anyway... i have age, to look and priorize performance!
@@Ale_Badu - I can see nothing changed on the other side of the barricade, still glorifying one side and jumping between the two extremities ;) No-one said that I'm into slow and boring, Fiat is both faster, more interesting than a Golf, and on top of that sounds way better, a factor which I believe amounts to a half of the experience. I could live with a Peugeot, but frankly, I'd rather push a Fiat than drive a Golf ;)
he picked the best car, at that time the golf mark 4 was the best car on the road I would have done the same... but the fiat bravo had the coolest look
@AdrianoCROST Well man sorry but there are a lot lot lot more 306 on the road than fiat bravo/brava across all Europe (or all over the world if you prefer). Honestly when one 306 goes to scrapyard, it is about 10 times more Bravo that will go there at the same time. The 306 is a very reliable car, the Bravo isn't, never was, and never will.
Pretty lazy journalism that persists to this day. The MK3 Golf has a pretty poor reputation for robustness these days and the current range is not really any better nor more appealing than its main rivals - unfortunately the myths meant that the Bravo was neglected and most Pugs got scrapped when crashed so the Golf survives. Not because its the best though
@AdrianoCROST So what you saying is the 306 looks like the Bravo? Well since the 306 was designed in 1992 making it older than the Fiat, so clearly what your saying is Fiat copied Peugeot :/... Also, compare the amount of 306s you see on the roads to the amount of Bravo's you see on the roads, the 306 is a far more popular car simply bcuz its more reliable, better to drive and lovely clean design....
@protuhaGTI How is it possible that Bravo is plastic toy and Golf is not ? Second it's little stupid to compare 2 doors car with 4 doors. Why they didn't compare Brava with Golf ? Brava have more space, nicer look and great engines.
Golf 4 is not a rubbish. However it's very high quality build car and also very tunable, especially 1.8T and TDI PD 130/150. Build quality is much better than Peugeot and Fiat, and also better than Mark 5. Mark 5 is more problematic, but it has better handling due to multilink rear suspension.
James Croad That's true, for me the mk4 is the best of those 3 cars. My bro own a 306, it's fun to drive but it has a lot of problems after 180'000 kms, like most of the 306. Most mk4 can make it to 250'000 without any problem.
Gti6 was an exceptional car for its time. Still my favourite car
I own the HDI still, and its been the best car, out lived everyone of my mates VWs funny enough.
Superb chassis. The last of the lively hatches before things got numb and boring.
I have a 306 gti 6 years of fun
Sure i'll take the Peugeot 306 GTI best looks faster and much much more ...:)
The pug was and always will be the king of its generation
I have a 306 and adore it - but to most friends and family, I‘d recommend the Golf as well. Few people can appreciate the incredible chassis of the 306 and then the Golf is from another planet when it comes to all the fit and finish details. For me? I’ll keep my 306 forever.
I have a 306 HDI , had it since 2007, its been one hell of a car.
Noone really talks about the Peugeot 306 anymore. While 205 is a cult classic.
306 my prefer ! :)
always was and always will be in my heart :D
Legenddd i have one
Lol no
@@doug3d109 Why? :)
just done a check on the golf... still the same plate and just passed its last mot at 240000 miles
Sam Prince it’s been scrapped now. Good worse shape golf ever.
@@thevdubber6918 mk3 is way worse
Seim Old DickHead I’d rather have the mk3 much better shape and the vr6 high lines are going for a fair bit of money now. Better still I prefer my Mk1 Gti.
Fiat Bravo 20v sound ^^
Charlotte saint-georges it's sad Jeremy didn't mentioned the T cylinder sound.
I would take the Peugeot 306 GTI
Peugeot 306 GTI-6 King of Hot Hatches 1996 - 2001
Lol no
@@doug3d109 then which one is?
@@littlepeugeot8341 he will probably say the escort, which was very poor.
American here...and 110% hands down, I'd take the Pug.
Good lad!
I used to drive Fiat Brava 1.6 elx on the 2000 here in Argentina. Nice to watch this.
I'd get the peugeot 306 all the way
Man the MK5-MK7 GTI's were a huge improvement over the MK4.
Peugeot is the most reliable there it turned out in the end, not to mention, it drives the best and looks the best
As a gti6 owner yes the 306's RFS engine is very reliable, but the golf's 20VT engine is also super good. They won't die easily and can hold a nice amount of horses on stock engine components.
Peugeot 306 forever!!!
Lol no
This video brings back memories... It's been almost 10 years when I used to watch it 😅
Peugeot!!! 'The best looking car!
Lolololol no
@@doug3d109 do you just go around saying stupid shit on every comment?
306GTi6 the best 👌🏼🇨🇵
Fiat bravo 👏
@@lucachollet2502 Teu rabo 😆
The Fiat because of the sound
Callum Brown Nothing sounds like the 5 cylinder Fiat.
@@chrisbergamo A 5 cylinder VW does
@@Ilias_Geo any 5 cylinder sounds similar I know that, I was trying to say that between the cars in the video, no one sounds like the Fiat.
@@chrisbergamo yeah true
Bravo hgt........!!!!!!!!
Bravo for me every time
You are literally putting a 306 GTI, a car with rally pedigree and born to be a Rally missile, against two cars that are just "lets go shopping" cars xD
Fiat Bravo HGT a shopping car? lol
@@petrvrana834send me a video i just bought a bravo hgt
306 is amazing!
Lol no
@@doug3d109 evidence?
The 306 was great. Low down and looked great. Mine always needed a repairs though
Why did they ever stop making the GTI-6 most fun car I've ever owned!
To replace it with the 307
@@d31zzz_ my brother had both and i got a 306 wich is waaaay better i have the xs1.8 tho
FIAT ITS THE BEST
306 is the best, by miles
Lol no
@@doug3d109 306 gti any day of the week ending in y
False
@@doug3d109 lol yes 😁
100% owned mine for 14 years now
306 is the best
Peugeot is king
Lion king 😁
bravo is the best, dizajn, engine, modern....real sport hatch :)
I love the 306
HGT for life
Carlos Freitas in the garage 🙂 relaxing
The green GTi was scrapped in 26/05/2018, The Bravo last MOT was in 2010, and the Peugeot changed plates so idk
How do u know 🤔🤔
306 looks the nicest by far
Lol no
@@doug3d109 lol yes.
Golf is the most practical, Peugeot is the fastest but Bravo is the best looking one by far
Bravo definitely wins in design
Dániel Anderle naaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Lolololol no
Bravo for ever 😍😍😍😍😍😍
The peugeot 306 GTI6 is anyones best friend apart from when my radio decided to break today fuck sake 😂
See, if you took the 5-cylinder Bravo you wouldn’t need a radio ;))
peugeot is the best!!!
Lol no
The Golf's engine is a nuke... With an ecu it gets over 200hp and over 300nm of torque
The fiat's too. put a new exhaust and maybe an ecu, and it will sound godlike-clear winner for me, as I'm the guy who prefers sound over all
@@joshe2420 Those are 5-cylinders aren't they?
@@НиколаНиколов-ь3и yes they are, that's what makes them sound so good
@@НиколаНиколов-ь3и not the ones that can be remapped to 200hp.
i have PUGEOT 306 and it is best
If they can get performance and economy from a diesel, it's worth having. Nobody can beat a small sized, German diesel engine especially in a Golf, Passat or even Audi A3/A4.
En español me gustaría estas pruebas antiguas con Jeremy Crarlsson
Basically 306 is a god
I said 'basically' not god
306 gti
I'll admit that I don't necessarily like the way its back is cut when you look at it from the side. But I really like the way it looks from behind. And the rear lights have a nice configuration too. The round red lights with indicators in them are really nice.
Other manufacturers have tried that since then but they either don't look good or you can't really see the indicator's orange light when it's on. There's no such problem in bravo because the brake lights are separate...
this golf GTI was hopeless - the version after this was incredible though!
They uses same runway track back then top gear never change also clarkson .
So many mk4 Golf GTIs still on the road now. Never see any Pug 306 or Fiat Bravo GTIs or non GTIs for that matter...slower isn't always the worst choice. Besides a remap can see late mk4 Golf turbos get 210hp with no other mods.
That’s because the 306 gti and fiat bravo hgt sold in far less numbers.
You posted this 2 years ago and golfs are still amazing 😉 I have a 1.6 16v and is going strong
I got a 99 306xsi with 250,000km. Still going strong.
@murilo1899 I'm fairly certain it's "Dreams" by The Corrs, written and originally recorded by Fleetwood Mac.
Fiat bravo 👏
bravo hgt best
i like this gen Golf best :)
Bravo sounds the best 👌
Thumb ups !! Fiatists
I need a practical hot hat over a go fast hatch
My mk4 gti is so solid it's great
Some one know maye what season and episod is it ?
how can the golf have 20 valves with 4 cilinders? 5 valves per cilinder???
The 306 S16 has the best chassis compare to the fiat bravo and the golf
False, the fiat is the only one with fully independent rear suspension.
@@Menda_Lerenda It's a french chassis so it's sporty, very playful and above all very fun
fiat is also fun, but not as much as Peugeot
la 306 la plus belle et la plus rapide comme voiture
can anyone here help me naming the the song that's heard in the end of the video (from 7:38 to 8:04) I d really appreciate that..I ve been trying to identify this song since a long time and found it in this video by coincidence!
thanks
This golf was not really a GTI in germany it was the Highline model
No they're not, I've owned 3, Audi A4 1.9TDIs and I can say that the engines are absolutely bulletproof. I bought my first one for £350, with 150k on the clock, and it run with only 1 fault, until the clock reached 234k. (the fault was a snapped timing belt)
Then I bought another one, with 140k on the clock, no faults up until 200k, it had no faults at all.
Then, my current 2002 A4, has had no faults and I've done around 22,000 miles in it.
Try tell me 1.9 tdi engines aren't reliable.
some have reached over a million km
Golf... brings back so many good memorys ...^^
Great video
im looking for video that introduces fiat coupe by top gear..could anyone help?
I didn't own a Mk4 GTi but I did have the 170bhp V5. That was a terrific engine, but the rest of the car was a let down. Especially in terms of reliability and handling.
OMG that 306 is a georgus car even by todays standards, the VW is to plain and the Fiat is ugly. The 306 is amazing!
and right there Clarkson sealed his fate 😀
fiat bravo el mejor coche de todos esos
VW Golf....only one that drives today:)
No 💀
@@_stoupa2_397 yes, i dont see a 306 around anymore...rust👀
@@manuellangius2896 I see a lot of 306 in my region. I have even too.
@@_stoupa2_397 here in Holland they are rare..all send to the scrapheap or Afrika ( Dakar)
It's clearly a Golf GTi advert...
Ive bought same 4 series Golf with 200000+kms and now its nearly at 300k+ and belive me as i use Cars like worst then bitches golf got all my respect ✌️ most reliable engines
@FragGile
Peugeot 306 GTI, nuff said... :D
yeah? and HAVE you driven jtd's? my bro had a 400 000km honda with rover engine - only diesel pump changed , no tubro issues, regular service. my dad use to have tdi - 2 turbos in 250000km and i drive a jtd - no turbos, no pumps, WAY economical... pls dont.. i know these engines... not to mention the 2.5 tdi ov vw is probably the most expencive engine to run called "dushegub" (soulsteeler) in my country because its more expencive to service than the entire car... and thats EVERY year.
French manufacter WINS!. sorry fiat and vw... keep trying! ;)
Ale Badu twat
@@Boxing-ju1es listen the video!
@@Ale_Badu - listen to what? I can’t hear the engines in the video but regardless, in sound department 5 cylinders wins hands down. I’m not interested in raw performance, I grew up and I’m not into boy racing anymore. 20 hp difference is not a deal breaker for me, I have other priorities now.
@@spavatch Has been past 8 years, that i made that comment.. and if you not interested in performance, maybe need to look a vw, slow, but confortable (sorry, in that point, Peugeot, wins), vw... anyway... i have age, to look and priorize performance!
@@Ale_Badu - I can see nothing changed on the other side of the barricade, still glorifying one side and jumping between the two extremities ;) No-one said that I'm into slow and boring, Fiat is both faster, more interesting than a Golf, and on top of that sounds way better, a factor which I believe amounts to a half of the experience. I could live with a Peugeot, but frankly, I'd rather push a Fiat than drive a Golf ;)
? Modern looks like it fell out of 1990s to me the 306 looks like it belongs in the 2000s
he picked the best car, at that time the golf mark 4 was the best car on the road
I would have done the same...
but the fiat bravo had the coolest look
GTI 4 ever
@AdrianoCROST Well man sorry but there are a lot lot lot more 306 on the road than fiat bravo/brava across all Europe (or all over the world if you prefer). Honestly when one 306 goes to scrapyard, it is about 10 times more Bravo that will go there at the same time. The 306 is a very reliable car, the Bravo isn't, never was, and never will.
Pretty lazy journalism that persists to this day. The MK3 Golf has a pretty poor reputation for robustness these days and the current range is not really any better nor more appealing than its main rivals - unfortunately the myths meant that the Bravo was neglected and most Pugs got scrapped when crashed so the Golf survives. Not because its the best though
MK1 GTi still the best! :D
@AdrianoCROST So what you saying is the 306 looks like the Bravo? Well since the 306 was designed in 1992 making it older than the Fiat, so clearly what your saying is Fiat copied Peugeot :/... Also, compare the amount of 306s you see on the roads to the amount of Bravo's you see on the roads, the 306 is a far more popular car simply bcuz its more reliable, better to drive and lovely clean design....
@protuhaGTI How is it possible that Bravo is plastic toy and Golf is not ?
Second it's little stupid to compare 2 doors car with 4 doors. Why they didn't compare Brava with Golf ? Brava have more space, nicer look and great engines.
GOLF GTI ftw
murilo1899 ....song by The corrs
0:03 - DINGDINGIDNGIDNIFINDIHINGIDGIN AHGAHAH AMONGUS
Fiat❤️
The 97 golf GTI and the 05 model were so boring, it's all about the GTD now! I'd kill to have one of those.
How about now?
@@spavatch I don't have a GTD. I have an Audi A3 instead. I also wouldn't kill to have a GTD as they are pretty dull, just like my audi is.
id still get 205 gti over those
Fiat..Bravo!! ;D
what about brava?
115 hp 1.8 16v tops
the best Golf TDI 150 ks!!!!
@songer885 yeh you are right! the 306 will be miles ahead of the golf!!!!
Funny how things turn out...
306 was a brilliant car
Mk4 golf was a rubbish car...
But then....
Mk5 golf = brilliant
307 = rubbish
Golf 4 is not a rubbish. However it's very high quality build car and also very tunable, especially 1.8T and TDI PD 130/150. Build quality is much better than Peugeot and Fiat, and also better than Mark 5. Mark 5 is more problematic, but it has better handling due to multilink rear suspension.
golf is shit car
Ahem, don't see many 306's or Brava's around these days...
James Croad That's true, for me the mk4 is the best of those 3 cars. My bro own a 306, it's fun to drive but it has a lot of problems after 180'000 kms, like most of the 306. Most mk4 can make it to 250'000 without any problem.
Wrong actually the MK4 R32 is widely known to be better than the MK5 version
They lean soo much. Pug is better.
Fiat Bravo just vanished, to the point no on even remembers it.