GTD Tornado Red

[phope]

I've finally decided to place an order for a GTD for a company car 

I've had various GTI over the years including one of the first Edition 30, but wife and I took rather a liking to various Audi TT in recent years, including a rather tasty TTRS.

I did seriously consider the new model TT in the TDI Ultra version, which is virtually the same drivetrain as the GTD, but for the budget I set myself, I would have got a very poverty spec TT which doesn't have any where near the spec of the GTD

The company car scheme fleet managers are estimating 19 weeks at this time, which doesn't sound unusual reading the forums, so hopefully by late January/February 2015. January would suit me fine as can't drive till then anyway for medical reasons

I've restrained myself from going too spec heavy, and have asked for:

Manual, 3 door
Tornado Red (not had a red car for ages, and fancied a change)
18s
Discover Pro navigation (biggest extravagance)
Keyless entry
Winter pack
May still ask them to add the Sport & Sound pack...not sure

Will be interesting to see what the delivery timescale turns out to be...I have heard that our administrators hold back registering cars if it is just a few weeks before a plate change for residual reasons

[andrewparker]

Congratulations, and well done with the colour choice!

[p3asa]

Sport and Sound pack is a must. The growl from it from a diesel is excellent.
I have to turn it off when leaving before 7am to get to work as it is just too noisy for that time of the morning 

[phope]

It's alright - my neighbour has a M3 so my turn to wake him up.

The TTRS on cold start up was also a bit embarrassing on very early mornings 

[ffrank]

+1 for Sport and Sound, I use it most of the time but nice to be able to 'turn off' the exhaust when you are on the motorway.

Keyless is also great on the diesel, it just starts itself whilst you buckle up (in terms of waiting for the plug to warm up in cold weather).

Nice spec phope, "enjoy" the wait - definitely worth it!

[Jammy1]

Great colour choice 

I didn't go for the sport and sound pack as I find my other car is a mite throaty

http://youtu.be/_p_yUY003hQ

[phope]

 

[p3asa]

+1 for Sport and Sound, I use it most of the time but nice to be able to 'turn off' the exhaust when you are on the motorway.

ffrank does yours drone while on the motorway? I find mine is only really noisy in 1st 2nd & 3rd. Turning mine off on the motorway doesn't really make much of a difference!

[runningman35]

Hi Phop,

Fellow Aberdeenshire bloke here and good choice of motor!

I ordered a T red 5 door GTD in May this year and still waiting with eta of around 15th October plus a week for PDI etc.

I have ordered the following extras:- basic sat nav, dynaudio, sport and sound pack, dcc, winter pack, heated w screen and advanced tel pack and had to stop myself from going too silly with options.

Can't wait to compare against my Mk5 GTI driving experiences! Really looking fwd to the S&S pack after reading other owners experiences, but will refrain from tuning based on mixed ownership experiences and comments read on the forum over last few months I think.

[phope]

Yeah, it'll be a bit different to my last Golf, an Edition 30 

Ordered confirmed this week by the fleet managers, and have added sport and sound pack on

Estimated delivery of late January 2015 - looking forward to it alreday