The 45k golf R

[Sa Calobra]

Sadly s3 the R are massive theft magnets.

[anonymous-user]

All models of Golf are 9th on the most stolen list 2017. Behind C & E class Mercs, 3 series, M3, Range Rover, Range Rover sport, Land Rover discovery, X5.

[Sa Calobra]

All models?

That doesn't make sense. So all Golf model figures combined are behind stolen M3 figures....


Someone's stats are wrong.

[anonymous-user]

Google it mate. From What Car and every major newspaper.

[selym]

I'd imagine the big stuff - Discovery, X5, other LR stuff - are going overseas.

[TooMany2cvs]

Thornaby said:

Google it mate. From What Car and every major newspaper.

https://www.whatcar.com/news/the-most-stolen-cars-in-the-uk/n17028
Not much in the way of actual detail there. Not even a source for the figures.

That was May. But back in March, the Express had come up with... https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/926340/c... - from Tracker, apparently. Tracker's website doesn't have anything.
In August, Confused had https://www.confused.com/on-the-road/safety/uk-mos... - Tracker, again.
This month, the Sun has come up with https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/7172735/top-10-mos... - Colewood Automotive this time. Who? A digital marketing outfit.

I'm particularly amused by the thought that Golfs (all flavours, all ages) are somewhere behind Range Rover Autobiographies... Just one trim level!

Oooh, hold on. There is a press release on Tracker's website... from the end of May.
https://www.tracker.co.uk/tracker-hub/news/London-...
Still no actual numbers, but at least it seems to hint that it's just among their customers...

[Sa Calobra]

I'm not feeling the statistics here.

[anonymous-user]

Sorry I take it back then. Without facts, it’s the Golf R. 100% theft rate. You’ll be car jacked before driving off the forecourt.

[CSLM3CSL]

TooMany2cvs said:

UK average weekly earnings at the end of 2002, £343. Post-inflation equivalent is £540.
UK average weekly earnings now, £520. Not a big difference, is it?

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/p...

I was earning around £343 a week working in a call centre in 2002. The same job would pay less than £400 a week now.

[Baldchap]

Thornaby said:

Sorry I take it back then. Without facts, it’s the Golf R. 100% theft rate. You’ll be car jacked before driving off the forecourt.

I've been killed by carjackers three times since I bought mine.

[DukeDickson]

Sa Calobra said:

cheesesliceking said:

What kind of halfwit would pay 45k for a VW??

Drugs money

That's more likely to go on an S3 or RS3, or if doing more than low level well, something that's a more expensive equivalent of, or a good step above. Or most likely an expensive 4x4 box, powered by Ferrari or Mercedes (nee Ilmor), with handling by your F1 boutique of choice, of course ;)

People will pay good or more than money for all sorts of strange things, sudden wealth of some degree, genuine wealth and a desire to seem to be invisible, or just plain old I want that one being just some reasons. Old people especially.

[BenjiS]

The discretion of a Golf should be underestimated. Ok, so the R and the GTI are theft magnets, but to most people they’re ‘just a Golf’ and bought because they are so invisible.

I can fully see a case where someone would want a fast, capable, well equipped, and low key car. A lot of clients I visits, are places where I wouldn’t want to turn up in anything flash, but a Golf R wouldn’t be noticed in a car park full of base model Golfs, Focuses, and Astras.