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"Mark - Sixpots None The Richer" (marklinde) 05/21/2014 at 15:10 • Filed to: GTI, Volkswagen, Car Spotting, Germany, Kolbenfresser

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I saw this GTI parked in front of an ALDI store. For all of you who don't know this: ALDI is the grocery store for the rich and famous over here. So exactly my kind of people...

Anyway, it is remarkable how empty the parking lot was and how neatly the owner !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! of a tree.

If an Opel Manta driver had seen this distressing act back in the 80s the war would've been won by them instantly and the whole GTI crowd would've been humiliated forever.

Nice car though! I really dig the color. The license plate suggested it is a model from 1980 and you can see that it is decorated with the H-plate which warrants the originality of the car.

And a crappy interior shot. Although you can't see any of it, I can assure you that all the important bits - for example the plaid and the golf ball shifter - were there and in good shape. I'm not sure whether the steering wheel is orginal or not.

Blake Noble > Mark - Sixpots None The Richer 05/21/2014 at 15:15

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We have ALDIs here in the States. Except rich and famous people don't shop at them. Actually, no one shops at them because they charge you to use a shopping cart.

Anyway, that was a very nice GTi. That's something we don't really see here.

case-sensitive > Blake Noble 05/21/2014 at 15:51

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$0.25 deposit on a cart < spending 1/2 the cost of my groceries when compared to any other grocery store including wal-mart.

Cé hé sin > Mark - Sixpots None The Richer 05/21/2014 at 17:14

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What's the significance of the H?

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > case-sensitive 05/21/2014 at 17:37

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Exactly, it's a deposit only. I almost always shop there, no reason to pay more.

Mark - Sixpots None The Richer > Blake Noble 05/21/2014 at 17:49

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I was only joking. ALDI is the cheapest discounter in Germany.

Mark - Sixpots None The Richer > Cé hé sin 05/21/2014 at 17:52

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In this article and the comments below I discussed the H-plate a bit.

Blake Noble > Mark - Sixpots None The Richer 05/21/2014 at 17:59

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Today's Dumb American Moment was brought to you by...

Mark - Sixpots None The Richer > Blake Noble 05/21/2014 at 18:02

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No problem, it's difficult for you to get my sarcasm because you don't know me. ;-)