RE: VW Polo GTI vs VW Golf GTI
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Just bought a Polo Gti for my wife. We both like it. Haven’t driven a current Golf but to be honest there can’t be much in it. It feels like every other VW/Audi/Seat but she liked the looks, size, and red dash 
Paid cash through Drive the Deal. £20k or thereabouts with a pretty hefty spec list.
Paid cash through Drive the Deal. £20k or thereabouts with a pretty hefty spec list.
GranCab said:
rtz62 said:
Shiv_P said:
Hub said:
The Polo has pretty much the same specification as a Mk5 Golf GTI - so one could save some cash and buy one of those instead!
What an odd comment.... This can be applied to loads of brand new cars but people in the market for a brand new car don't want to buy a 12 year old golfNot really, plenty of people kill over the choice
I’ve got a new family estate but was looking for a 4wd saloon with a Turbo and nearly pulled the trigger on a new lease car but instead spent £400 on a 248k Audi A4 B5 1.8 Turbo Quattro Sport.
Very leggy I grant you but impeccably maintained and just what I wanted, especially for when it snows where I live.
And as it sits on a set of Blizzaks, it only gets used when it gets very cold, icy or if it snows. Which on the edge of the Peak District it certainly does in winter.
Nonsensical comment.
As it happens, since my post the car has gone to a new owner who was delighted when he saw it in the flesh, having owned 2 or 3 TQS models before.
Anyway, feel pity for me, I’ve now got the Octy estate (soon to be replaced by a Leon ST FR estate and a bloody P38 Range Rover for when it snows..
dimots said:
Just bought a Polo Gti for my wife. We both like it. Haven’t driven a current Golf but to be honest there can’t be much in it. It feels like every other VW/Audi/Seat but she liked the looks, size, and red dash
Paid cash through Drive the Deal. £20k or thereabouts with a pretty hefty spec list.
Big thumbs up for DriveTheDeal, got massive discount on SWMBO last new car,(a BMW 3 Series) that BMW couldnt get within £4K of...Paid cash through Drive the Deal. £20k or thereabouts with a pretty hefty spec list.
I imagine their deals on VW will be along a similar vein, which then makes me wonder if the price gap between the Golf & Polo will be the same as VW ask or even more disparate?
GranCab said:
rtz62 said:
Shiv_P said:
Hub said:
The Polo has pretty much the same specification as a Mk5 Golf GTI - so one could save some cash and buy one of those instead!
What an odd comment.... This can be applied to loads of brand new cars but people in the market for a brand new car don't want to buy a 12 year old golfNot really, plenty of people kill over the choice
I’ve got a new family estate but was looking for a 4wd saloon with a Turbo and nearly pulled the trigger on a new lease car but instead spent £400 on a 248k Audi A4 B5 1.8 Turbo Quattro Sport.
Very leggy I grant you but impeccably maintained and just what I wanted, especially for when it snows where I live.
tty attitude? Patch1875 said:
Golf looks much better prefer the older polo to the new one.
Also why couldn’t they come up with a new alloy wheel instead of just using the golfs horrible ones.
I'd agree with that and the interior in particular is where youi can see the Polo is the cheaper car - it looks very "slabby" with lots of hard plastic. The Golf interior is on a par with a 3 Series for interior quality, the Polo definitely shows it's price point...Also why couldn’t they come up with a new alloy wheel instead of just using the golfs horrible ones.
From the front, you can barely tell those two apart. In fact, from the thumbnail image, i was struggling to tell which one was which!
I must say, i've seen a good few of these new Polo's recently and my girlfriend's sister's boyfriend has just got one. I think i prefer the one before it though, which he actually had. It's similar to what Mini has done and made their small car into something fairly sizeable. I think it's also quite ugly from the rear too.
I'm a big fan of the 2.0 TSI engine though, especially when mated with DSG. It's actually a very good combination, IMO.
I must say, i've seen a good few of these new Polo's recently and my girlfriend's sister's boyfriend has just got one. I think i prefer the one before it though, which he actually had. It's similar to what Mini has done and made their small car into something fairly sizeable. I think it's also quite ugly from the rear too.
I'm a big fan of the 2.0 TSI engine though, especially when mated with DSG. It's actually a very good combination, IMO.
As a Mk7 Golf owner I find the size of the new Polo confusing, i also feel like theyve gone too far on the sharing of the tech too, the Golf should have better quality gizmo's to give you that sense of why you paid another 10k on top, not to have the same sat nav as a Polo and other lesser spec'd cars.
Golf R vs. GTI, is down to preference, i've had both, they're both great but equally very different, I prefer my R to my Mk7 GTI but can imagine a Clubsport would be a riot
Golf R vs. GTI, is down to preference, i've had both, they're both great but equally very different, I prefer my R to my Mk7 GTI but can imagine a Clubsport would be a riot
I've always preferred smaller cars, so i'd probably go for the previous Polo GTI over the Golf. With this new version though, i'd find it hard to look past the Golf. Again, like the Mini, this Polo seems to have too much personalisation going on, especially with those awful red plastic trim bits that makes it look so cheap.
Not sure what car you guys are looking at but the new Polo is still a fair bit smaller than the Golf. It's around 20cm shorter.
Also, the interior quality is definitely not amazing from the dashboard down, but the dash (particularly the red dashboard), the steering wheel and gearstick are all lovely.
Quality-wise not up there with my 2015 Merc CLS AMG63-S which has leather on every visible surface and lots of nice metal bits, but for the price it's pretty decent and very well designed.
Also, the interior quality is definitely not amazing from the dashboard down, but the dash (particularly the red dashboard), the steering wheel and gearstick are all lovely.
Quality-wise not up there with my 2015 Merc CLS AMG63-S which has leather on every visible surface and lots of nice metal bits, but for the price it's pretty decent and very well designed.
Chr1sch said:
As a Mk7 Golf owner I find the size of the new Polo confusing, i also feel like theyve gone too far on the sharing of the tech too, the Golf should have better quality gizmo's to give you that sense of why you paid another 10k on top, not to have the same sat nav as a Polo and other lesser spec'd cars.
I think this is down to the overlapping generations. Perhaps the Golf 8 will grow enough so that the gap in size is reinstated. Same idea for tech I assume.E65Ross said:
Exactly! Utterly baffling comment. It's almost as if people who post these sort of things expect the manufacturers to price their vehicles the same as older, 2nd hand cars 
Um no. But I do think it's not unreasonable to expect a fair bit of clean air between the ten year old car one already owns and the brand new car they want to flog for a rather substantial sum in terms of the overall experience. Otherwise - why bother? Cars don't tend to fall apart after X years anymore (at least not when properly maintained), not even VAG products... 
900T-R said:
E65Ross said:
Exactly! Utterly baffling comment. It's almost as if people who post these sort of things expect the manufacturers to price their vehicles the same as older, 2nd hand cars
Um no. But I do think it's not unreasonable to expect a fair bit of clean air between the ten year old car one already owns and the brand new car they want to flog for a rather substantial sum in terms of the overall experience. Otherwise - why bother? Cars don't tend to fall apart after X years anymore (at least not when properly maintained), not even VAG products... Brand new car
Three year warranty
More safety equipment
More efficient
Cleaner
Bigger
If you dont want bigger then i dont think they'll stop you buying a Polo....
LOW4LYFE said:
Gti is dead these days. Just get an R or nothing tbh fam.
I'm in an R now, but my last car was a GTI PP because I wanted one. I specced it well into R money and I loved it.When looking at cars, the secret is to buy what you want, not what other people think you should have. If I'd listened to others, we wouldn't have bought our Tesla, which despite what strangers on the internet who have never been near them say, is an absolutely fantastic, practical, bonkers family vehicle.
Shiv_P said:
Hub said:
The Polo has pretty much the same specification as a Mk5 Golf GTI - so one could save some cash and buy one of those instead!
What an odd comment.... This can be applied to loads of brand new cars but people in the market for a brand new car don't want to buy a 12 year old golfGassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff