what did you think of the white Matthew? truthfully haha 
Nice, but not as nice as the Red (IMO). Both of those cars were within a few feet of a westerly facing wall of glass at 1pm - couldn't have been any more natural light on them inside the dealership. I suppose the measure of the white is that I generally don't like white cars but I could've lived with one in white if mine turned up mistakenly in that colour - that shade of white (not sold on warm whites like "candy"). The Golf suits a cold/neutral white.
I do sometimes think that for cars of all marques, white is the cheap option (obviously not so for VW now when it's half the cost of metallic), and as soon as it's not we'll see fewer of them on the road (again I talk about all marques). In Tornado Red I have done the cheap option on paper, but it is my favourite shade to live with every day. I started oout with a DBP colour choice, but it would pain me to look at that between weekly washes when the dust and grime build up and kill that mirror sheen. Some people choose white in the least suited of cars. Ever seen a white A5? White Jag? I see people in cars like that all the time and they really look sh!te, for a few hundred quid saved. If whites weren't so prevalent everywhere I might've been tempted to get one, but I really didn't want to add to the sea of white that is out there (about 60% of cars under 3 years old within 1/4 mile of my house are white, including an S5)
I think that generally White and Red are suited to small cars or medium cars that have small car proportions (like Golfs).
One more thing about the GTI - loving the black rooflining - only available on my Roc with TDI if I were to pay for black leather.
