The Mega Mk7 Golf GTI/GTD/R thread

JoeA3

cojomo2 wrote: »

What would a new 3dr manua realisticallyl set you back if you were doing a straight deal, about 44k?

Whatever the RRP is minus the cash discount, which can vary a bit if you shop around. 2 - 2.5k I suppose.

cojomo2

JoeA3 wrote: »

Whatever the RRP is minus the cash discount, which can vary a bit if you shop around. 2 - 2.5k I suppose.

So around 41.5k...Not bad at all

carsfan2

The R really needs the dsg box to get the best of it I would have thought.

JoeA3

carsfan2 wrote: »

The R really needs the dsg box to get the best of it I would have thought.

The DSG is fantastic tech, but I sometimes miss the manual tbh.

noelf

autocar.co.uk in car news review of vw golf gti clubsport edition 40 ..

carsfan2

Just read that review.
A bit overly harsh on the regular gti I think but at the end they still say the R is a better buy.
I often find the UK press to be a bit schizophrenic. A car they will rate highly can become average on the next review unless it's a jag or land/ Range Rover when it's always a class leader regardless of its shortcomings.

Handsome Brute

How much money did VW reduce the R by?

JoeA3

ilikesubway wrote: »

How much money did VW reduce the R by?

About 9 grand but they also bumped up the spec a fair bit, adding stuff like the 19's that would have cost approx 1k to spec.

Handsome Brute

What methods do you use to wash your cars? Flys on the motorway at this time of year are doing a right job to my bonnet and windows. Chrisfix on youtube has some pretty good videos but the proper methods of washing a car takes very long! I take it nobody here in their right mind uses them automatic washes?

dar83

Snow foam followed by two bucket method at minimum for regular maintenance washes.

Having a decent wax applied to the front of the car (if not all over really!) will help with the flies, as the power hose should help lift them right off without anything else required. If they're juicy and stubborn then a snow foam should do the trick and they should be gone once you rinse it off.

GustavoFring

Get some microfibres, wet them under warm water and put them over the areas that are bad with bugs. Leave them soak for while and blast with the power hose and snow foam.

noelf

Played around with the Configurator on volkswagen.de for a gti clubsport less than €35k in Germany

JoeA3

noelf wrote: »

Played around with the Configurator on volkswagen.de for a gti clubsport less than €35k in Germany

Standard German spec tends to be really poor though. German buyers tend to spec up their cars themselves more than we would. Look at the photo you posted there. No climate, very basic radio...

vintagevrs

Went on the German site myself there. Joe's not wrong about the poor standard spec. Everything is an extra on that car apart from the club sport seats funny enough which is a big ticket item.

It doesn't come with cruise control even. Better way of doing it though, let the customer decide on the extras, it's their car after all.

JoeA3

vintagevrs wrote: »

Better way of doing it though, let the customer decide on the extras, it's their car after all.

It's the way VW Ireland used to do it, except they didn't give you the option to spec it up :pac:

A lad posting on autostadt.ie has a new GTD on order for 162 and his dealer has told him Dynaudio, App-Connect and possibly even leather are going to be standard fit...

GustavoFring

App connect is coming in the tech pack for 162 alright. No idea on the GTI/D/E or R but the highline is getting leather so they well might.

JoeA3

Amazing the turnaround VW Ireland have made in the last 2 years with regards to spec'ing up the cars. It was completely unheard of for them to do that until very recent times.

VW UK have tended to put leather in the last GTI's - i.e. the MK5 and MK6 got leather towards the end of it's lifecycle... the MK8 might be a bit closer than we think.

Ron Burgundy II

GustavoFring wrote: »

App connect is coming in the tech pack for 162 alright. No idea on the GTI/D/E or R but the highline is getting leather so they well might.

FFS VW, got a highline in Jan and now they're offering leather as standard.

MisterDrak

JoeA3 wrote: »

...the MK8 might be a bit closer than we think.

Better get saving boys

Ionised

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the end of my PCP coincides with the release of the Mk8

noelf

Ionised wrote: »

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the end of my PCP coincides with the release of the Mk8

Posted on Autocar 30/11/2015
www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-volkswagen-golf-scheduled-2016

GustavoFring

Ron Burgundy II wrote: »

FFS VW, got a highline in Jan and now they're offering leather as standard.

To be honest, I'd actually prefer the standard highline seats!

vintagevrs

noelf wrote: »

Posted on Autocar 30/11/2015
www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-volkswagen-golf-scheduled-2016

I would be surprised if that happens.

First generation (A1, Typ 17; 1974–1984)
Second generation (A2, Typ 1G; 1983–1992)
Third generation (A3, Typ 1H; 1991–1998)
Fourth generation (A4, Typ 1J; 1998-2005)
Fifth generation (A5, Typ 1K; (2003–2009)
Sixth generation (A6, Typ 5K; 2008–2014)
Seventh generation (A7, Typ 5G; 2012–present)

4 year cycle is too short, Early 2018 would be my guess.

JoeA3

vintagevrs wrote: »

I would be surprised if that happens.

First generation (A1, Typ 17; 1974–1984)
Second generation (A2, Typ 1G; 1983–1992)
Third generation (A3, Typ 1H; 1991–1998)
Fourth generation (A4, Typ 1J; 1998-2005)
Fifth generation (A5, Typ 1K; (2003–2009)
Sixth generation (A6, Typ 5K; 2008–2014)
Seventh generation (A7, Typ 5G; 2012–present)

4 year cycle is too short, Early 2018 would be my guess.

I predict we'll see the left-hookers doing the rounds in the dealers around October 2017 (same as they did recently with the Tiguan, Passat) but you won't see a MK8 registered here until early 2018. The GTI will follow that summer and the R sometime later than that again.

vintagevrs

Too bad I'm jumping ship, think Carsfan has the right idea

carsfan2

Leather and dynaudio must be the guts of 2.5 grand. Surely VW would not give that much for free?
They already have loads of kit and are available at very low apr.Let's not forget they also are great cars. VW can't be that desperate. If this is the case will do nothing for values of existing cars.

What's next Vintage vrs?
Mustang or Prius?

vintagevrs

A Rwd Prius appeals

JoeA3

carsfan2 wrote: »

Leather and dynaudio must be the guts of 2.5 grand. Surely VW would not give that much for free?
They already have loads of kit and are available at very low apr.Let's not forget they also are great cars. VW can't be that desperate. If this is the case will do nothing for values of existing cars.

What's next Vintage vrs?
Mustang or Prius?

I'd be skeptical myself and this info came from a dealer and we all know how notoriously reliable they are for stuff like this

That said, the MK7 is now approaching the latter stages of its lifecycle and Wolfsburg may just want to clear a stockpile of MK7 leather seats, so it may be costing VW Ireland nothing extra.

carsfan2

I would have thought the one model VW Ireland were having no trouble shifting was the golf gti/ gtd/ R judging by the increase in numbers already.
We already get a good spec here.
Maybe there will be a price rise.

I've agreed a trade in for mine for July.
The dealer already reckons he's giving me too much and I reckon he is especially if they throw even more kit in them for free.

Are you really moving on too Vintage vrs?

Nonoperational

What are you changing to?

No way they will give Dynaudio as a free extra.