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Rust is the Mk3 killer

Volkswagen GTI (Mk3) · paint-and-body

Rust is treated as the number one reason clean Mk3s are scarce. Commenters joke the factory added rust on the assembly line, and a serial importer warned that a car showing minor surface corrosion turned out to have tons of rot hidden under the plastic body cladding.