2018 Golf TCR and dealer information ?

[kmpowell]

TCR LIVE ON BELGIUM VW

https://www.volkswagen.be/app/configurateur/vw-be/fr/golf/30315/35410/gti-tcr?page=engine

Given what I said my dealer had told me, I’ve just sent the link to him asking for an update before I sign for my car next Sunday.

On the face of it however it looks like the car is going to have a base price of circa £4k more than the base price of a PP. So on a 5dr DSG by the time DCC, wheels, paint, Dynaudio etc have been added the TCR is going to be a car well north of £40k with (I suspect) no discount available. So throw in the discounts currently available on the PP (circa £5k) that’s a £8-10k difference. That’s a lot of money for what is effectively a PP with a few styling tweaks and just 40hp more? 

[king monkey]

Trying not to read too much into the prices on the website. The R is also ridiculously expensive there and it seems that things that are standard here are an option there such as led lights. Also, it looks like it won’t be limited run which means discounts might well be achievable. Time will tell.

[king monkey]

Then again mine has just come to £44k. Wow. That can’t be right! 

Just specced an R to the same as I would here and it was around £7k more than uk prices. Read into that what you will.

[Cardy]

Does the TCR come with the akrapovic exhaust standard ? I was hoping it came with bucket seat from CS as option

[king monkey]

Exhaust has been mentioned as an optional extra. No mention of bucket seats in any of the previous coverage.

[Cardy]

Buckets are a must in a car like this surely especially when TCR stands for touring car racing

[king monkey]

I try to think of the tcr as a trim level gti rather than like the CSS. I can see why some would want bucket seats but can’t imsgine how much they’d be! Think we need to wait for the uk spec as there’s options on the Belgium website which we’re never mentioned in the press.

Back to pricing, the tcr sits between the R and gti pp in Belgium so there’s a bit of hope!

[Exonian]

The TCR will most likely be priced similarly to a Clubsport, and those didn’t exactly fly off the shelves.

[king monkey]

I agree. Think that the average Joe who wants a gti will opt for the pp. Anything else is for a gti enthusiast really.

[Ian_C]

This week’s Autocar has the TCR being available in August 2019.

That’s interesting. The motoring press have been reporting that mk8 Golf production starts in June 2019, so mk7.5 production will have stopped in advance of that date to enable the Wolfsburg plant to tool up for the start of mk8 production.

In the same article Autocar is stating Dec 19 for the Mk8 golf. These are the UK ‘on-sale’ dates so I assume that other quoted dates are for production only?