Funnily enough I was reading this thread on the train earlier today but couldn’t reply as the signal was awful and GWR WiFi non existent. I was going to suggest contacting our forum dealer evo1986 directly as Lee is able to give bullcrap free advice and often source deals that’ll rival the leading brokers and give the main dealer back up service.
By the time I got home and had time to log in he’s replied!
It’ll basically depend on when VW are pulling the plug on production and how sales are going whether they give large VW UK discounts on top of dealer ‘contributions’ instead of PCP kickbacks.
It wasn’t until VW UK had locked in spec final run cars in the last few months of production of the pre-facelift mk7’s that they gave a £3250 discount on top of dealer discounts in lieu of PCP ‘contributions’.
They did this in the car trade dead zone at Xmas to clear the last models off the line with little choice of spec. These were mostly locked in cars.
I managed to secure a GTD for a shade over £20k over New Year 2017 for a March 17 plate delivery.
Demand is still strong for the mk7(.5) Golfs despite a new A Class, Focus, 1 Series etc being recently released. None of which offer much improvement, if any, over the 7 year old Golf.
Maybe the A35 offers a better interior and similar performance to the R but only if you spec the A35 to around £40k with less discounts than the Golf. It’s quite spartan as standard and is more of an S3 rival than Golf R anyway, both having unforgivable chrome trims around the side windows unless you order expensive packs to remove something that has no place in a performance hatch! Sports hatches should be de-chromed around windows, full stop!
