Really wanted to like the E45 and would select it over the CS for the Akra and think special grey paint? but as Volkswizard pointed out there is some strange misses? This is from a company that each year has a team of young talent produce concepts for display at Worthersee.
But having a 45 on seat instead of GTI, keeping the leather effect on the armrest, having 45 badged mats, a mention of clubsport somewhere! (If i had a clubsport i would be having the MK 7 Clubsport decals placed on the MK
and no power lift, not even a 20BHP one?
My TCR was displayed at Worthersee, and is quite well aligned to the concept car, and its clearly a TCR, especially if went for the TCR door graphics, the original clubsport had some identity, we all knew this was a clubsport, they may as well have stuck to the TCR as the standard offering for the MK8, and made the 45 the clubsport?
The 45 is still a great car as its a clubsport but its definitely missed the mark of opportunity on so many levels to be something a little more special - however, someone with a little bit of application and will, could do a mild transformation and correct all these misses and with the seats spend some money on a recover with the 45 decal, which yes is unlikely to be cheap, but its do able and then you have a car more looking of the special edition tag
The likely reason the 45 is mild transformation, is thats its the platform to a monster hybrid (as was expected for the MK8) E50 with real track aspirations with a standard time limited offering and limited edition, think they will really push everything into the 50 being something special, but this is VW and they likely turn it into an ID3-GTI
