Golf Mk7 - Sweetspot for price, spec, performance?

[bitchstewie]

Posted in GG but thinking about it I guess there's more chance of feedback from owners if I post here too, hopefully this won't be too frowned upon so..

I fancy a change from what I currently have (Freelander 2) and had something smaller and more economical in mind but with reasonable performance (real world not stuff I'd never use) and found myself looking at Golf Mk7's today.

I'm fortunate in that I could say balls to it and go pull the trigger on an R, but there are so many levels of trim, engine, options that I'm trying to work out just where on earth the sweetspot lies?

I know I was quite shocked that even the GTD claims 62mpg combined with £30 VED, though equally I know that fuel and VED is the thin end of the wedge if you're looking at a new or nearly new car smile

The only things I'm pretty much fixed on is a sunroof and DSG ideally with flappy paddles.

[bitchstewie]

OK still looking and so far it seems that as I'm pretty set on DSG with paddles it has to be a GT upwards.

It appears that a GT with those options, plus Dynaudio (which appears to be a must) is around £26.5K and a GTD with similar spec around £29.5K.

Trying to find something pre-registered with those options is a bit like looking for rocking horse st and usually they have a lot of additional options so there isn't even a significant saving.

Any more thoughts on where the sweetspot is between those three?

Being blunt affording it isn't the problem (as I think I said I could just get an R) it's simply trying to maximise VFM and feel "right" about it.

[bitchstewie]

Oh and how good is the sat nav? I have it on my FL2 but tend to use it as a map rather than to actually give me directions IYSWIM.

[bitchstewie]

No sunroof but doesn't look too bad on spec for the price vs. everything else.

http://usedcars.volkswagen.co.uk/Golf-GTI/GTD/R/2....

and:

http://usedcars.volkswagen.co.uk/Golf/2.0-TDI-GT-1...
http://usedcars.volkswagen.co.uk/dealer/Golf/2.0-T...

Edited by bhstewie on Saturday 27th September 16:04

Edited by bhstewie on Saturday 27th September 16:17

[bitchstewie]

andrewparker said:

As said before I fully believe the GTD is the sweet spot. I've done 3500 miles in mine now and I love it. I don't understand the GT spec, add niceties like xenon headlights and climate control and it comes within a few hundred pounds of a GTD.

By the way, the DTD price for a 5 door DSG car with Dynaudio is £24900.

Presumably with any vehicle DTD assume you're buying from scratch i.e. you have the hassle of getting rid of your existing car?