Just wondering what people's opinions are of this trim option on the facelift GTi ? - ignoring the £750.00 cost,I quite
like it - in my case having had a MK5 GTi and then my current MK 6 GTi,both with the tartan cloth,I quite fancy something different next time and this looks good imo - I know tartan is the GTi trademark but I'm definitely attracted to this - (some good photo's on the german vw site)
I don't think you can actually ignore the £750 cost as it's quite a lot of money to most people.
However I do see your point and in many ways agree with you.
The red tartan has become ubiquitous since the mk5 GTI (yes vaguely similar patterns were used on mk1's and mk2's for a time but neither design was popular in its day really) and I do like the way the red tartan adds a bit of classic character and brightens up a typically German shades of black interior.
But the Art Velours is also something that's not completely new to GTI's as the Pirelli edition had embossed seats and the ED35 had it as an option for many markets, plus there were a good few Worthersee GTI specials that had embossed honeycomb patterns in the interior fabric. Therefore the pattern is quite acceptable for GTI purists (and even the puerile).
So if you can actually ignore the £750 you'll never see again it's a very nice choice.
You can buy a perfectly good sofa from DFS for £400 I expect, but if you'd rather have something else in your lounge to impress your mother in law, you'd probably quite happily pay a good few hundred quid extra for something remarkably similar with a different cover and a more fashionable label on it; and whether you've paid £400 or £1400 the chances are it'll end up in a skip or donated to a charity shop once you've changed your wallpaper in a few years time...
