2018 Golf TCR and dealer information ?

[Jim_mk7.5]

A TCR with Prets, nice choice    Not many out of the flood of them on the AT with the Prets

[mcmaddy]

@hertsman - the fact you've asked a sales guy about the mk8 r is bad enough as they know absolutely nothing about anything they sell 
I'd take his info with a huge pinch of salt at this stage.

[Hertsman]

That grey was always going to be a good colour.

If VWUK had released that colour years ago I could see it being the most popular colour by a long old way and probably sealed a lot of sales.

You could have an Audi in it or a Skoda in it, but not a Golf.

Stupid.

BTW has anyone heard a date yet for the end of Mk7 production? That's still the key thing for me...

Obviously see a lot of R now opposed to when received my R three years ago and there was a nice feel of driving something different from the pack and think the TCR and the grey will give that feel of being a little different while keeping some VW reserve and not being garishly different. - Thats not a knock on the R, would have happily had another as most of the pleasure is in the driving but at the level of finer details the grey will be relatively rare and so will give that feeling described.

Think Frankfurt is October? so you must think MK 8 become available to order soon after though imagine books close on MK 7 to order and there is a phased change to MK 8 as fulfil the orders - not seen a factual date though.

[Hertsman]

@hertsman - the fact you've asked a sales guy about the mk8 r is bad enough as they know absolutely nothing about anything they sell 
I'd take his info with a huge pinch of salt at this stage.

To be fair to the guy he seemed as much as an enthusiast as sales guy and from my own now decent knowledge he gave no inaccuracies on the MK 7 as we talked through that - so I actually believed him as he seemed someone who has made a point to know out of his own interest - obviously we shall see

[CookieMonsterGTi]

Mine has arrived at the dealer and the exhaust upgrade is confirmed, looks very nice...cannot wait to hear it. Pick up on Saturday so will try and post pics shortly afterwards

Mine is also with the dealer at the moment, but unable to collect until the week after you.  Also can't wait to hear it as sense the youtube clips won't do it justice.

[Jim_mk7.5]

@hertsman - the fact you've asked a sales guy about the mk8 r is bad enough as they know absolutely nothing about anything they sell 
I'd take his info with a huge pinch of salt at this stage.

  Never met a car salesperson who knows anything about a yet to be launched new model!

[SRGTD]

Think Frankfurt is October? so you must think MK 8 become available to order soon after though imagine books close on MK 7 to order and there is a phased change to MK 8 as fulfil the orders - not seen a factual date though.

The Frankfurt Motor Show is happening now; 12/09/2019 - 22/09/2019, and VW are using Frankfurt to showcase the ID3 all electric car. They wouldn’t (and didn’t) unveil the mk8 at the same time as the ID3, as it could dilute the impact of the ID3’s debut.

[CookieMonsterGTi]

By the way.  As anyone managed to check if the MY20 models got the upgraded key fob?  Think I read a few pages back Seat?? had got new ones on MY20 which didn't transmit the signal once no movement was detected.

[Watts]

Saw my first TCR today on the M25, a foreign registered 5 door in black with black wheels. Unfortunately the black masked all the details so I couldn't appreciate the differences. One thing though with all the recent talk about exhausts, the chrome tail pipes stuck out and looked wrong. This might be partly due to the colour of the car but I think the Akra thingy exhaust will suit better.

[AGB]

A TCR with Prets, nice choice    Not many out of the flood of them on the AT with the Prets

I thought that too Jim. Guess it'll be a rarer spec choice with the price increase now too. When I spec'd the TCR, I put an Instagram poll out as I couldn't decide. I think black Pretoria versus Reifnitz was 150 to 8 in favour of the Prets.