April 1st Price Rise - it's no joke

[fredgroves]

But we know GFV is gamed by VWFS don't we? Its a gamble on their part and sometimes you as a customer win and sometimes VWFS lose. The only thing that doesn't happen is the customer owing more than the GFV. There's a lot of gaming in that both to cover their own asses and to reduce the monthlies for the customer making them more likely to purchase - sales promotion.

Fleet Residuals are what they expect to get at auction I'd imagine - because that is how they dispose of them, because that is the most cost effective way for them to get it off of the books - they aren't going to bugger around with hauling round dealers or sticking it on ebay or something.

[Arnold_Lane]

Yes this is true, though the most obvious change was removing options from the GFW meaning it's almost impossible to get a lower price unless you've abused the car and done way over the mileage.
The down side being that your monthly payments increase substantially if you get a bit excited with the options tick boxes, e.g. Met paint is roughly £25/month extra over three years, DCC is roughly £24/month and Dynaudio £16/month. It's not difficult to get a standard £300/month car up to £400+/month.

[fredgroves]

Woah.... you mean that basically you pay 100% for the options over the course of the PCP and GFV is just the base spec?

That's naughty.

So basically if you have any options then selling rather than handing back is going to yield results?

[monkeyhanger]

Anyway, as a PCPer, you aren't going to suffer a lower price than GFV, so fleet price after 3 years is not representative of what the consumer expects to lose in depreciation.

My almost 4 year old Golf R is available and Pulman offered me £16k for it. A performance car specialist on Tootle has offered me £17300. GFV on a 4 year old R right now? haven't checked, but it's probably in the region of £13500-£14000.

Similarly, GFV for a 3 year old GTI with 30k miles is probably sitting at £14k.

[MEZZA]

Just been on the DrivetheDeal website and there are no manual versions of the Gti listed even though the manual is
on the VW configurator - any clues ? - temporary glitch ?

[evo1986]

Quite a few models were due to close for ordering on the 4th of April the Manual GTI being one of them .......

[fredgroves]

Quite a few models were due to close for ordering on the 4th of April the Manual GTI being one of them .......

Permanently close?

[evo1986]

Sorry I checked last night and official close for ordering date for manual GTI is the 10th but it would close early if they took enough orders.

It will not return....... until MK8 GTI in some form

[Yusee]

Another nail in the coffin for the manual box. I wouldn’t be surprised if they pulled it from the mk8

[king monkey]

Another nail in the coffin for the manual box. I wouldn’t be surprised if they pulled it from the mk8

Agreed. I’d be surprised if there’s a manual Mk8 gti and that would be a real shame.