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Title: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! Delivery next week tuesday!
Post by: 08micsta on 04 February 2011, 10:16
Hey all

So... My dad needs a run-around for the company for him to go see customers in as his Mitsubishi Pajero chomps fuel and the Porsche is hardly adequate for seeing customers in.

So unknown to my step mom he has ordered her a Steel Grey Golf 6 GTI.

Full House. Every option ticked excluding Satnav (as the car is only used to pick the kids up from the shops and to do shopping).

Her current MK5 GTI is 4 years old with 30 000km on the clock. So almost nothing.

So the current GTI will become his run-about and the MK6 will go to Mom. She is going to be so surprised when it arrives!  :evil:

So may be in here more often then I expected.  :wink:

Mike
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: javsta on 04 February 2011, 10:29
lol I was told I would have to wait 6months for any new vw and that was in december ended up getting one from stock
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: 08micsta on 04 February 2011, 10:40
I work for MINI and I know demand as in SA MINI is one of the top selling cars...

I still do not understand how Volkswagen with all its Infrastructure and tech cannot produce a car in under 7 months.

MINI takes three Months to produce a car. 2 of the three months is transport from the UK to South Africa...

Our plants manufacture most of the cars for Europe and yet we as local buyers cannot get the car when the plant is no more then an hour flight anywhere in SA.

Its madness as he will get the car late year - Wont wait till 2012 and the car will be a year old when its only a month old.

I just dont get it...

Mike
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: am1w on 04 February 2011, 10:46
Hey all
.......So may be in here more often then I expected.  :wink:
Mike

Yippie! Great news Mike about the car and your increase in posting on this forum. :smiley:
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: Phil1980 on 04 February 2011, 11:05
Will be nice to have a new car, but surely there must be one in stock with similar spec sod waiting six months for a car
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: 08micsta on 04 February 2011, 11:59
We waited 8 months for the MK5 GTI...  :lipsrsealed:

7 Months is a walk in the park...  :laugh:

The car my dad specced is a full spec car. Not a lot of those around... And in SA every man and his dog has a GTI. Its a very popular car.

In fact at the launch of the MK6 in Cape Town, South Africa Volkswagen announced that over 57% of Golf 5 production in SA was GTI.

Hence the waiting times. A full spec GTI is not a common sight in SA.

Mike
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: am1w on 04 February 2011, 12:05
Mike,

Worth the wait for a fully specced car IMO.
Congratulations.

Asker.
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: dubber36 on 04 February 2011, 20:57
A bloke I know was told 5 months for a 1.4 Match DSG as long as it was silver  :shocked: :shocked: Oh, and up to 13 months for a DSG Passat. That's never right, surely?
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: am1w on 04 February 2011, 21:02
A bloke I know was told 5 months for a 1.4 Match DSG as long as it was silver  :shocked: :shocked: Oh, and up to 13 months for a DSG Passat. That's never right, surely?

Are VW trying to tell us that the whole world wants VWs?
I cannot understanding waiting 13 months for a car which takes a few hours to build.
I think it is the burgeoning Chinese market that's putting stress on VW production.
Very annoying for potential customers.

PS: My nephew ordered a petrol Golf Match in beginning July last year. Fully specced. Delivery March/April. That is a 10 month wait. Incredible.
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: GolfTi on 04 February 2011, 21:05
My usual reply to these threads..

I waited 4 months, glad I did as I got exactly what I wanted.

While waiting I went on the fantastic Wolfsburg factory tour.

My car now feels even more special as its mine from new, ordered by me to my spec.


The anticipation makes it sooo much better. :smiley:
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: The Doc on 04 February 2011, 22:42
It's all good, think of the residuals  :wink:

I had to wait longer than that for my Mini JCW GP and I couldn't change anything bar choosing the service pack or not - cracking little motor though, was well worth the wait - good times  :smiley:
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: andykram on 04 February 2011, 23:48
I was told 10 weeks and that's what I expect for a new car. Nothing more. Admittedly, mine was one of the first ones so it arrive in 6 weeks but I wouldn't wait more than 10 weeks. I'd just go elsewhere.
Remember the popular saying on here - "it's just a Golf".

Madness.
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 05 February 2011, 00:51
Mk7 will prob be out before it arrives :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: 08micsta on 05 February 2011, 07:45
MK7... Nows that an eyesore.

I still prefer the MK5 for some reason... then again - Being 20 years old I love the madness of the drive whereas the MK6 is a very very refined Golf.

The MK5 is a bit raw...

Not sure why but my dad hasnt even test driven the MK6.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: am1w on 05 February 2011, 08:40
Hi Mike,

From the pictures, the Mk7 seems to be losing the plot a bit just like the Mk3 focus.

The Mk7 GTI will most probably be available March 2013 onwards in RHD form thus giving the Mk6 GTI a four year cycle.

Mk6 GTI refined? Oooh no, not enough for moi unless the ACC/DCC is in 'comfort mode' for our poxy roads in the UK. 18” wheels on Bridgestones don't help either. I have started driving like a great granny to protect Wolfgang as well as his master! :grin:

I have a good feeling that the GTI might arrive a bit earlier than envisaged.

Asker
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: Snoopy on 05 February 2011, 10:24
The problem is not build time its supply of parts.
VW basically told there suppliers they were cutting production about a year and a half ago but in mid 2010 they ramped it way up due to schemes like scrappage all round europe, and parts suppliers due to the original cuts by VW started making large cuts themselfs,  closed factories etc. (one in my area for example). This had a knock on effect when VW demanded large amounts again.

PS
Mine took 7 months to arrive it was one of the first very long delayed to build ones of 09 and was suppose to only take 12 weeks that was 2009 to 2010 so looks like nothings has changed.
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: jez_-_ on 05 February 2011, 12:23
I'm in the same boat  :sad:

Ordered mine in October and was told delivery would be March,

This has now changed to delivery in May! 7 months!

Are they still doing this free hire car still? Or have they scrapped that now?
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: Exonian on 05 February 2011, 14:04
Mk7 will prob be out before it arrives :laugh: :laugh:

Maybe you'd better get your order in for your mk7 now then, so it may be ready for launch, assuming VW ordered enough parts to design a mk7 in the first place. You could get one with one of those God-awful 1.6 Derv engines.
The 'proper' mk7 Golfs won't be along for a little while longer though, so you may want to risk not getting your order in until summer '11 for one of those..... :laugh:
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: richyrb on 07 February 2011, 01:49
i replied in the other thread about the wait but will in here too

i ordered in september '10 and still waiting. got told anywhere upto week 14 of 2011.

i was told that vw produced their annual quota and so stopped production for a while then restarted but with a slower unit output giving orders that were placed in 2010 to complete in 2011. reason for this was to make sure the quota was achieved in 2011.
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 07 February 2011, 08:49
VW deferred ordering scheme. It's the future. :grin:
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! 7 Month wait!
Post by: moutains on 07 February 2011, 09:10
i bough a new s4 b5 in 1998 delivery took 11 months, worth the wait though
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! Delivery next week tuesday!
Post by: 08micsta on 08 February 2011, 10:02
Hi 5 VW!

So turns out the salesman had a trick up his sleeve.

He had found the exact car my dad wanted and mislead him (Same salesman that sold us our MK5). Our MK6 GTI arrived in town today. Delivery will be next week Tuesday.

Blown away, surprised and excited is an understatement. The colour is Carbon Silver.

Has everything... Just popped over to VW to have a look. Still being PDI'ed but damn she is yummy.

So.. MK5 GTI and MK6 GTI under one roof. Lucky b*stards.

Mike
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! Delivery next week tuesday!
Post by: am1w on 08 February 2011, 11:17
Congratulations, Mike. Could not happen to a nicer person.
Title: Re: MK6 Golf GTI Ordered! Delivery next week tuesday!
Post by: Jimble on 08 February 2011, 21:20
Congratulations, Mike. Could not happen to a nicer person.
Yes it could...........











Me. :laugh: