Asking £25k for a 5.5 - 6 year old Golf is one thing. Actually getting the asking price for it is another matter…….
You'd be surprised. I bought a 69 plate 7.5 GTI PP in January 2024, advertised for very similar to this one. I was checking every few days for good one owner and low mileage ones to come up and when I did see a few and I rang the dealers, I was always told reserve fee has been paid by someone else or it's sold now and we need to take the ad off. I then checked numerous times a day and the same morning this (my current car) popped up and I phoned them straight away and requested a walk around video and then paid a refundable reserve fee. Had to travel 3 hours the next day lol. Dealer was not budging at all with the price and said I am lucky to have paid a reserve fee as two others phoned up after me enquiring about it. Could all be fluff, but it had only done 15k miles and was mint. In the end I managed to get them to chuck in two free services.
It's been a great car and the residuals are very strong on the 7.5s. My local dealer told me last year that 7.5 GTIs are flying out as soon as they come in. I would expect it to be different now though as the 8.5 is a much improved car over the 8, but I think people were turning to the 7.5 hearing of all the issues some people were having with their mk8s.
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