RE: VW Golf GTI TCR orders open

[kmpowell]

Earthdweller said:

kmpowell said:

Leather is £1750 not £2500. I went for it because it's kid-proof plus it gives the cabin a bit of class over the usual check/tartan....

Edited by kmpowell on Saturday 23 February 09:58

It may well be now, when I looked at a GTI about three years ago by the time you added the winter pack and heated seats it was well over £2k

Mental for a Golf .. BMW leather upgrade was £1100 .. but most high end 1/3 series had it as standard

Winter pack and heated seats have always come as part of the cost, it’s never been £2500.

[myobnsa]

johnwilliams77 said:

Yup - he's talking through his hole.

Well I know I am being one when saying "only one careful owner" :P

I do manage to get 20mpg on Vpower

Edited by myobnsa on Saturday 23 February 16:32

[anonymous-user]

I love Golfs, I’ve had 5. The leather is an expensive option but it’s not as good as the leather you can get in the Passat or in the Scirocco’s. I don’t understand why they don’t offer the better leather as an option.

[Adrian E]

kmpowell said:

Adrian E said:

Always better to let the first owner take the hit! We paid circa £20k at a year old

I'll bite, maybe in 2015, but show me a year old well specced Golf GTI Performance for £20k? With WLTP delays and scarcity in teh marketplace, residuals for the GTI are pretty good.

Not meant as a comment worthy of a 'bite', but for context I bought our week-before-Xmas 2015 registered Golf PP in Jan '17 (basically days short of 13 months old) with 11k miles. It was a private sale, which clearly limits the number of potential buyers. Not a great time of year to be selling either, but we've had it 2 years now and intend to keep it a good bit longer yet, as it does exactly what we need it for.

I have the original order from the first owner, showing a list price of £35,585, before discount. Vienna leather was £1433.33+vat=£1,720 at that time, which included heated seats

I haven't looked at current prices but am aware of recent supply issues resulting from VW failing to get WLTP emissions approvals done in time for when it kicked in. If it means ours has maintained more value as a result, happy days!

[kmpowell]

Adrian E said:

kmpowell said:

Adrian E said:

Always better to let the first owner take the hit! We paid circa £20k at a year old

I'll bite, maybe in 2015, but show me a year old well specced Golf GTI Performance for £20k? With WLTP delays and scarcity in teh marketplace, residuals for the GTI are pretty good.

Not meant as a comment worthy of a 'bite', but for context I bought our week-before-Xmas 2015 registered Golf PP in Jan '17 (basically days short of 13 months old) with 11k miles. It was a private sale, which clearly limits the number of potential buyers. Not a great time of year to be selling either, but we've had it 2 years now and intend to keep it a good bit longer yet, as it does exactly what we need it for.

I have the original order from the first owner, showing a list price of £35,585, before discount. Vienna leather was £1433.33+vat=£1,720 at that time, which included heated seats

I haven't looked at current prices but am aware of recent supply issues resulting from VW failing to get WLTP emissions approvals done in time for when it kicked in. If it means ours has maintained more value as a result, happy days!

Yup yours is worth more than you think especially if it has good optionsq which it sounds like it might. A lot has changed in the 2yrs since you bought yours. The 7.5 was released in the summer of 2017, the standard GTI (in both manual and 6sp DSG) was dropped mid 2018 due to WLTP leaving just the performance (with manual and 7spDSG), the WLTP shutdown in 2018 caused a major drought and there’s been several incremental price rises. To your original point, year old GTI’s are now £25k+ (a grand or so so less if you want a manual), and much more of you want one with decent spec. The TCR is now out but that’s track focused with stiffer dampers etc so that’s driving people to wanting normal GTI’s if they were considering and there are reports from a few people on the golf forum that dealers are saying there’s no stock left and it’s factory orders only again.

My brother bought new in March 2015 a GTI (5DR, manual, no options, white) which had a GFV of £11k which he’s due to pay next moth, and he’s been given p/x values of £14k+. Positive equity in a PCP in 2019 is virtually unheard of in a mainstream car, he was pleasantly surprised, so much so I think he’s going to get a cheap bank loan for the balloon and keep it.

I ordered mine in the summer last year with the promise of a 3mth wait, but I cancelled after a month due to the WLTP meltdown and them saying I wouldn’t get it until March 2019 at the earliest, but it turned up at the dealers a few weeks before Xmas totally out of the blue with two other GTI’s the dealer had on order. He called me and asked if I still wanted it. He honoured the original 15.5% discount and gave me the new 3.6%APR campaign rate, so I took it on the spot as I’d failed to find anything in the used market that was even close to the spec I ordered or near the price I paid.

I think there’s so much uncertainty with brexit, no deal blah blah that dealers and VW have an inconsistent message to sales routine and it’s a bit of a mess. A chap on the GTI forum yesterday ordered a new TCR and he was apparently given £6k discount due to him having a DTD comparison(which was removed Saturday morning) but other dealers aren’t budging and saying that there will be a price increase of 10% if there’s no deal.

[hyphen]

Have VAG bothered to invest more in security so the owner doesn't need to worry about is door getting kicked in by thieves?

[Trevor555]

hyphen said:

Have VAG bothered to invest more in security so the owner doesn't need to worry about is door getting kicked in by thieves?

Good question, it's something that's now affecting my choice of cars.

[Patch1875]

hyphen said:

Have VAG bothered to invest more in security so the owner doesn't need to worry about is door getting kicked in by thieves?

Surely that tells you the car is secure if they have to enter your house to get the keys.