« Reply #2 on: 20 November 2023, 10:42 »
VW seemed to have cleared most of the backlog of sporty Golf orders that disappeared into the void for a couple of years. Many are now sat in showrooms as cancelled orders, plus there are also dozens on the VW website as ‘coming soon’ which I’ll presume are locked in builds or already built and sat at the docks.
Order books closed in May for the R and many of the current unsold physical cars are in showroom spec - leather and sunroofs - which is exactly what they did on the rundown of 7.5’s. These parts clear out cars are probably leapfrogging customer orders as VW often do that.
Does your car have a particular spec adekil?
Personally I’d nab a physical car with a discount and use VW’s current finance promo on top, otherwise your car might be one of the last off the line right before the 8.5 comes on stream and therefore hit with instant depreciation owing to being literally one of the last RHD ordered.
Then again it might just suddenly appear as built. VW can be weird like that.
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