Also used a golf for a long a$$ daily commute last year, it was a 92 mk3 that cost 300 euro and it came with NCT and a heap of work just done and it never missed a beat. Easily returned 42mpg according to an app and was a nice comfy place to sit and watch the miles go by, slow as heck but speed was sort of irrelevant as it was a route that always had speed vans on it.