Launch for Mk6 GTi is.....or Mk6 stuff here!

[Snoopy]

£21750.if you add xenons, leather (estimate £800 and £1700 and if you buy in 2010 showroom tax £300.You are talking close to 25k.How much is the R going to be? You can shop around and get the face lift s3 now for 8% to 10% discount brand new with leather and xenons standard for around 25k.Vw are taking the pi$$ especially with those 5 year old alloys.

Exactly my thinking. Some people will pay anything for a GTI i won't. I may have been a GTI fan since the mk1 first came out and Always owned a GTI since the late 80s but i refuse to be ripped off and to me that is the case with the mk6 they make it cheaper then the mk5 then charge more for it!
It may get more standard equipment but when its so much more expensive than the competition (and now cost the same to make!) and you can get so much more  discount off rival brands it works out many thousands more expensive in the price you pay. A badge, VW should know is only worth so much its about time this country and many owners and future owners woke up to badge snobbery and see what other countries are doing, we pay far too much just for a badge. We are been ripped off BIG TIME by VW.
I as many know was looking forward to the mk6 and was someone who may have bought one BUT at this time im going to wait let the initial brainwashed idiots pay near list see how things start to go then either buy a slight used one, find a big discount on one OR buy a secondhand mk5 maybe an Ed30 instead to go with our current GTIs.

[deanjames]

Some more pics, apologies if these have allready been posted.

http://auto.t-online.de/c/16/30/98/44/16309844,pt=self,si=0,topic=12411686.html

looking good!

[Peskarik]

£21750.if you add xenons, leather (estimate £800 and £1700 and if you buy in 2010 showroom tax £300.You are talking close to 25k.How much is the R going to be? You can shop around and get the face lift s3 now for 8% to 10% discount brand new with leather and xenons standard for around 25k.Vw are taking the pi$$ especially with those 5 year old alloys.

Exactly my thinking. Some people will pay anything for a GTI i won't. I may have been a GTI fan since the mk1 first came out and Always owned a GTI since the late 80s but i refuse to be ripped off and to me that is the case with the mk6 they make it cheaper then the mk5 then charge more for it!
It may get more standard equipment but when its so much more expensive than the competition (and now cost the same to make!) and you can get so much more  discount off rival brands it works out many thousands more expensive in the price you pay. A badge, VW should know is only worth so much its about time this country and many owners and future owners woke up to badge snobbery and see what other countries are doing, we pay far too much just for a badge. We are been ripped off BIG TIME by VW.
I as many know was looking forward to the mk6 and was someone who may have bought one BUT at this time im going to wait let the initial brainwashed idiots pay near list see how things start to go then either buy a slight used one, find a big discount on one OR buy a secondhand mk5 maybe an Ed30 instead to go with our current GTIs.

VW... what badge snobbery?! 
If you said Audi, BMW, or Mercedes, I would have understood, but VW 

[tonyh]

Some more pics, apologies if these have allready been posted.

http://auto.t-online.de/c/16/30/98/44/16309844,pt=self,si=0,topic=12411686.html

looking good!

i agree it looks fab- love the backlit gear knob and new interior - nice to see the check cloth back too 

[Saint Steve]

im gonna have to wait till it arrives in the flesh, also looking foward to  Jeremy clarksons reaction when he gets his hands on it. He was My main reason wanting to go get a Mk5 GTi over all the other hot hatch's.

Some people think hes a loon, but he is genuinely a golf GTi Fan, These mags are very good at making things look really rosie, But its gonna have to be a real Leap foward to get me out of my ed30.
The Car is just fantastic to look at, and cant get tired enough ast just looking at it

[Peskarik]

im gonna have to wait till it arrives in the flesh, also looking foward to  Jeremy clarksons reaction when he gets his hands on it. He was My main reason wanting to go get a Mk5 GTi over all the other hot hatch's.

Some people think hes a loon, but he is genuinely a golf GTi Fan, These mags are very good at making things look really rosie, But its gonna have to be a real Leap foward to get me out of my ed30.
The Car is just fantastic to look at, and cant get tired enough ast just looking at it

Phil, what do you think of JC's dislike of Porsches?

[Saint Steve]

I agree, Rear engine in that car is oh so in the wrong place, should be in the middle. Its just a balistic Beetle

Ive never been draw towards Porsches 

sorry, i could never afford one, and if i could i wouldnt even entertain one

[tonyh]

jc's dislike for 911s is misplaced - the car is fantastic ... i had 2 964s and 4 993s 

[Saint Steve]

i just do like those cars, to me its the same car theyve produced in 30 odd years.

sorry if the 911 lovers think different. Im just one of a minority i guess.

[RedRobin]

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I like Porsches.

Phil - Yes, it's going to be really interesting to hear what JC has to say about the Mk6 GTI. Exactly like you, JC's review on TG was what had me making phone calls the next day!