Maybe it was a glitch or something but when ESC was enabled there was vitually no throttle response in first, better in second and the car came alive in third. Turning the ESC off seemed to allow the car to behave "normally" if you like.. I was in manual mode and sport as I wanted to try and compare the mk8 to my 7.5 R
The car is reasonably well specced ( not as well as the one in Coulsdon at £47.6k which i think has almost every option ticked ) and I asked them why they'd put the price up £3000 when i expressed some interest in it. Their response was that they don't want to sell it as they'd have no demo model to show to potential customers. If i want that car, I could put down a deposit but they'd insist on keeping the car another 3 months until a replace arrives...Odd..
But I do agree with you about the current cars on the market, they're almost all base spec without winter pack so of no interest to me..
Or I could go mad and spend £45k on a 22 plate GTi which seems steep..
Does sound a bit odd behaviour, was the car very low mileage(?) as they tend to suddenly free up somewhere between 500 and 1000 miles.
I’ve got to admit I’ve not been in a VW dealer for 16 months nor looked at autotrader etc so am going purely from examples I’ve seen (very few) or seen posted up online but from what you say there definitely must be a trickle coming through. Some slight reassurance there!
For £45k I’d want a fully loaded R!!
How did you find the performance compared to your R?
WelshGolf, that’s week 26 next year…