Clean survivors are scarce and cheap-to-strong money follows condition

Commenters repeatedly observed that unmodified Mk5s have become genuinely hard to find because most were tuned, thrashed, or worn out, which makes stock, documented cars the auction stars. In the captured auctions (roughly 2020-2025), undocumented or automatic cars sold in the 4,700-7,000 dollar range, well-documented drivers brought roughly 8,000-13,000 dollars, and the outliers were a 19k-mile stock manual at 15,000 dollars and a famous modified DSG build at 14,500 dollars after an earlier 13,000 dollar no-sale that a commenter had already called all the money. …