Wish

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VW today released the price and specification of the new Golf GTI

www.thenewgolfgti.co.uk

Just spec'd a car up on there configurtor and it works out to £23k and thats WITHOUT leather and Sat Nav


What really gets me is that it has 17" as standard. And to have the 18" option its a £900 cost !!!! and they are the same design wheel just 1" bigger.



...................... Hope its a good car for that kind of money.

Andrew Dixon

Can't seem to get the URL working .. probably our crappy work DNS.

VW claim that it's going back to it's roots and producing a GTI once again worthy of the badge - somehow I doubt that. But I certainly expect it to be an excellent driver's car.

Think I'll stick with my Mk2 for now though.

Jamescsti

Link doesn't work for me at home either

RobBBB

try www.newgolfgti.co.uk

Jamescsti

Not exactly cheap for a Golf mine came to 22,990 still without some options!

Wish

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Not cheap at all !

Neil Smalley

I'm sure it's well made and all, but once it gets above 20K it's in a whole new price band. One in which I think it's out of place. 23K gets you a whole lot of car

J4CKO

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VW taking the p1ss as usual

AR

I got to nearly £30k on an A3 3.2Q Sportback without trying...

sti-04!!

got an audi A4 to 48k

& a BMW 760 to 97k



quality

RB5 Paul

It'll just be another bloated rubbish golf so whats the point anyway

MooseRacer

^^^ What he said.

mynickers

Not really, they're trying to stretch their brand into luxury car market and compete with BMW, Merc and Audi, etc. The mark up and profit margin of high marques is much higher than mass production. I.E., make less units, earn more cash from each one. Buying up Skoda and Seat was part of that strategy, now they have mass market and cheap brands, and they want to move VW into posh folks cars.

They've been slated for thei GTI over and over, so I doubt they'll make it as bland as it used to be. Hoever, they now have a new flagship sports brand, and it aint' GTI any more it's 'R'. So I reckon the GTI will still be a reletively warm hatch, and they'll do another range topper R at a later date.

NotoriousREV

Woohoo, got it to £27,385. Or maybe I won't bother

MooseRacer

Ah yes the 'R'. You're right I expect they'll shoehorn an engine from one of their luxo-barges into the Golf at some point, in the mistaken impression that'll make it a good car

RB5 Paul

PMSL

How true

16vmarc

197bhp Turbo though.

RB5 Paul

In a car that looks like a Seat and weighs the same as a Roller

16vmarc

What about the new astra gsi, when it comes out? That will be pretty similar.

RB5 Paul

True but at least Vauxhall have made an effort to have the car looking nice and a bit different from everything else.

dba

197bhp?

get and remapped Octavia RS and save 8 grand,much faster and you will pull more birds

J4CKO

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Brand upmarket ?

Volkswagen, the peoples car my ****.

CraigH

You're kidding right? It looks like they've taken bits from the 10 best selling euro/jap boxes, stick it in a mixer and the Astra popped out. Is no more "different" than a 307 and certainly nowhere near something like a Megane (thank god )

RB5 Paul

The 3 door astra's a lot nicer than the 5 door,quite a lot of difference,i am going by the gtc concept tho,apparently the production model hasen't changed much from that concept tho

TopBanana

Spend 2k on a mint Mk2 16v, spend the rest on drugs and women. Sorted

Diablo

Whats the point?

A new Seat Leon 225 cupra R is £20 short of being £2,000 cheaper...

wrxmania

£27,050 for me - incredible waste of manoey - NO WAY is a golf ever worth £27k.

Think of what you could buy for that money?!

Brian

TopBanana

You could get a 3 year old M5 for that money

RB5 Paul

or a tvr tuscan