New RiverBlue Golf Sportline aus Russland

Hello! My name is Max. I am from Moscow, Russia. Sorry, I don't speak German, so I will write in English. My Golf is 2006 Golf 5. I have quite rare here in Russia Sportline package. The engine is 1.6 BSE 102HP with tiptronic 6speed gearbox. The car's color is yet more rare - LA5S New RiverBlue metallic. This color was available only in 2006.
Here are some options I have in my car:
- sport seats;
- RNS 510 navigation;
- Nokia VW Bluetooth premium;
- Lights and Vision Package;
- 10 airbags;
- 10 speakers soundsystem;
- alloy 16" wheels ("Hockenheim" in winter, "Mugello" in summer).

And hear are some pictures of my Golf:

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Terrex, thanks! I am not sure, but it seems that I am the only one member from Russia at the moment. About modifying - the first thing I want to do - to install original VW sport suspension (-15mm from standard euro suspension). You see - all VW here in Russia has so called Rough Road Suspension (+20 mm to standard euro). I don't know, do you have such suspension in Germany? That's why the car looks not very good, like little jeep But roads here in Russia are not so well, as in Europe, and sometimes they are really terrible.
Just for example on the way to my country house (200 km from Moscow) there is a road section with such surface (I think you don't have such a bad roads in Germany):
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At this road secton I can go by the roadside only. So this raised suspension helps when you are riding on such roads. The second thing - I want to replace stock reflector front headlights with Hella Xenon-Look ones.

And about traffic in Moscow. Unfortunately I can't compare it with traffic in other big european cities, because I didn't visit them. But some times (not all the time) it's really very stressful. I can tell you, that I don't riding my Golf on working days, only on weekends. When I go to work, I prefer to use metro. It's really faster. And about videos on youtube - can you send some link for example, and I will tell you, is it so or not.

Hi,Terrex! Happy New Year! It's a pleasure to hear, that some people in Europe like you for example is interesting about Russian life, really! First of all about Metro - I mean it's an underground subway. I think you also have it for example in Berlin. And about video. I can tell you that yes, it's a real life in Russia. Here we have special TV shows about road collisions and accidents, so called "Road Wars". But at the same time I can't tell you, that it's a normal situation and you can see it every day on the roads. For example I live in Moscow and I am driving the car for almost 2 years. Till this time I haven't seen such situations with my own eyes. But unfortunately they are happening every day. There are so many drunk drivers on our roads, that drives a car with 120-150 km/h within the city (at 60 km/h speed limitation). It's an absolute true about what you said about a corrupt policemen and governmental privileges. They really use blue flashing lights and don't follow any traffic rules. Thats why many russian drivers now use special video-recorders, that installs on the front window. I am going to install such device too:
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That helps to avoid many problems, that may happen on our roads, because in case of any collision you will have a video.
So at the end I can tell you that Russia is not so terrible country as it seems at first glance.

P.S. If you have some more questions about Russia and Golfs in Russia, please ask - I am always glad to answer

Kind regards, Max.

Ralfer, yes. you are quite right - it's a german flag inside the rear emblem. Found it at ebay last summer. It's a pre-cutted sticker. Look pretty good especially here in Russia And I also have german flag-styled front seats insirts.
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