my big sister had a mk 2 when i was small, and when i started my first job, a bloke who worked there ,used to pick me up on his way in, he had a mk 1 esc , light blue, think it had revolution wheels, it was stripped and had a cherry bomb, it was the BEST car i had ever been in, at that point, i was 16 and it was in 1988
then when i got passed my test i got a mk 4 .1.3l and made a rst replica
i also worked at vauxhall for 6 years, and if you see the amount of new cars that came into the workshop, you would never buy one,