Here's an A3 we also have at the garage, fricking beautiful, 1.6 though they are still group 9 insurance, we had a 1.8 turbo in once, no one would ever give me a quote.
I've only had the golf 6 months (first tax is up at the end of the month
) I was 18 when I got the golf, I had the corsa for about 16 months, that was 600 through my mums insurance then 220 for the next year with direct line, but haha, for some reason they put my insurance through as a husband and wife policy, so it came through much cheaper because they thought my mum was my partner......hahahahah.
Once we all realised the mistake when I was canceling the policy they tried to charge me £250, yea right.
You can get a mk4 golf quite cheap nowadays, mine cost me no more than £1300 so far and that includes some problems i've had with it, thougth I baught it when it had a few scrapes and scratches on it from an auction and got the paintjob etc done rather cheaply on it.
I'd seirously price a 1.4 E golf though, stay clear of the 1.6's though, they might have 25bhp more, but the 1.4's sell for more because the 1.6 just plain sucks...