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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: Stitch on 22 February 2010, 21:43
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Hi all
just interested in what other cars u guys looked at before parting with upward of £26k for a mk6 GTi?
Reason I ask is I'm wanting to change the mk5 gti and have been looking a cayman s but realised that a well spec'd gti is >£30k which seems like a lit of money for a golf.
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Exactly, £30k for just a golf is mega expensive. After all, its just a Golf, it really is a shopping car and the GTD is quicker. If It were me, I wouldnt buy it over again.
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Exactly, £30k for just a golf is mega expensive. After all, its just a Golf, it really is a shopping car and the GTD is quicker. If It were me, I wouldnt buy it over again.
really or have I missed your sarcasm?!? £26kand well spec'd I could go for but for me£30k puts it up against some other very good cars.
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Well, I paid £22,500 for mine.
Quite good spec too.... :cool:
Rolfe.
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Go for a Mercedes Benz C Class 250 CDI Sport Auto or Manual or a 350 CDI Sport Auto.
(BMW 3 Series saloons in my opinion are common and ugly).
I did not buy the Mercedes due to parking space problems.
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Well, I paid £22,500 for mine.
Quite good spec too.... :cool:
Rolfe.
What is your spec?
Would you kindly include this in your personal information, please? :wink:
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really or have I missed your sarcasm?!? £26kand well spec'd I could go for but for me£30k puts it up against some other very good cars.
You are asking golf gti owners on a golf gti enthusiast forum if they think their shiney new cars are worth it? I think your sarcasm detector may need recalibrating.
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This is a real stitch-up! :laugh:
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Daft question really :wink:
We have all spent or are going to spend a lot of money on this new Golf but it is worth it, the car is the most luxurious and quiet version yet.
You get what you pays for and with the mk6 you get class in my opinion there aint much better out there.
Gizzy
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not really. I've paid £30k for a lotus in the past knowing that there were lots of other cars out there. Was interested to l know what other cars if any you considered before buying the mk6 . £30k is decent car territory and whereas I was blinded by the lotus I wasn't totally blind to the fact that other cars existed.
Genuine question and thought being a car forum cars I general would be of interest.
really or have I missed your sarcasm?!? £26kand well spec'd I could go for but for me£30k puts it up against some other very good cars.
You are asking golf gti owners on a golf gti enthusiast forum if they think their shiney new cars are worth it? I think your sarcasm detector may need recalibrating.
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I considered the Mercedes Benz C Class. Even drove a couple of them.
Got down to choosing the colour and spec.
Fabulous car, especially the 350 CDI Sport with 7 Speed Auto box.
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Exactly, £30k for just a golf is mega expensive. After all, its just a Golf, it really is a shopping car and the GTD is quicker. If It were me, I wouldnt buy it over again.
really or have I missed your sarcasm?!? £26kand well spec'd I could go for but for me£30k puts it up against some other very good cars.
Yeah sorry, I was of course being very sarcastic.
A £30k specc'd GTI is of course expensive. But your getting one hell of a car. If you want stupid fast buy a Focus RS or something, then get your baseball cap and turn it to the side for complete chavness, but if you want a fast car, a great all rounder, with the best interior I have seen ever in a car at £30k and a touch of class, then you go for the GTI. I would buy it again a million times over, I'm not regretting it one bit and love it. If you price my Spec its around £30k now.
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the question was " what other cars did u look at". Not sure what's daft about that.
Daft question really :wink:
We have all spent or are going to spend a lot of money on this new Golf but it is worth it, the car is the most luxurious and quiet version yet.
You get what you pays for and with the mk6 you get class in my opinion there aint much better out there.
Gizzy
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It is too much for a Golf I agree and if I bought mine again I'd have to find £27k plus to buy it. But do you know what? This is sad but I went through the new car listings in What Car last night to see what I would buy if I were buying a new car tomorrow. Also bearing in mind I wanted good, nay very good, resale because it's a private (not company) purchase and there was virtually nothing else I would buy.
There were countless run of the mill saloons which would be lovely cars no doubt (Mondeo, Insignia, Mazda 6 etc.) but none of them inspired me and the resale on them is crap.
BMW 3series are ubiquitous and boring.
I quite like the Lexus IS but, ultimately, it's boring too.
I hate Audis with a passion. They all seem to be driven by w****** and I find them pug ugly. Also the wife looked at an Audi A3 convertible the other week as a possible replacement for her Saab 93 convertible (for some reason she liked the look of it).. It was absolutely crap. Hideous inside. Felt cheap and nasty and not remotely worth the £23k they wanted for a 6 month old car.
Mercs leave me cold.
So for about £25 I'm left with the GTi and numerous other hot hatches as possibles unless I just say I hate driving and buy a cheap runaround.
Hot hatches I've posted about before but briefly....
Focus ST - I liked it but she hated it so that was that
Type R - Thought it was cheap and nasty inside and couldn't be arsed to drive it at 50 gazillion revs all the time
Astra VXR - Liked that and a whole lot cheaper. Realistically the only car that might sway me away from another GTI. However, it felt a bit "young" for my 42 years.
Seat Leon - ugly
Skoda VRs - not a chance
So there you go. Yes the Golf is very expensive and I could very easily see myself going back to a sporty diesel next time because I might not be able to afford to buy and/or run the GTi. But cost aside, there's nothing else I'd buy.
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Agree about the focus. Car is in for a service soon. Maybe I need a test drive!
Exactly, £30k for just a golf is mega expensive. After all, its just a Golf, it really is a shopping car and the GTD is quicker. If It were me, I wouldnt buy it over again.
really or have I missed your sarcasm?!? £26kand well spec'd I could go for but for me£30k puts it up against some other very good cars.
Yeah sorry, I was of course being very sarcastic.
A £30k specc'd GTI is of course expensive. But your getting one hell of a car. If you want stupid fast buy a Focus RS or something, then get your baseball cap and turn it to the side for complete chavness, but if you want a fast car, a great all rounder, with the best interior I have seen ever in a car at £30k and a touch of class, then you go for the GTI. I would buy it again a million times over, I'm not regretting it one bit and love it. If you price my Spec its around £30k now.
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The golf is expensive, no doubt about it, however it is a golf GTI, and thats why VW are getting away with charging the prices. From what i've seen & heard so far, it's money well spent if your looking for a practical hot hatch. So it depends what type of car you're after.
I had a look at SEAT/BMW/FORD and the GTI won hands down. :drool:
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Agree about the focus. Car is in for a service soon. Maybe I need a test drive!
Exactly, £30k for just a golf is mega expensive. After all, its just a Golf, it really is a shopping car and the GTD is quicker. If It were me, I wouldnt buy it over again.
really or have I missed your sarcasm?!? £26kand well spec'd I could go for but for me£30k puts it up against some other very good cars.
Yeah sorry, I was of course being very sarcastic.
A £30k specc'd GTI is of course expensive. But your getting one hell of a car. If you want stupid fast buy a Focus RS or something, then get your baseball cap and turn it to the side for complete chavness, but if you want a fast car, a great all rounder, with the best interior I have seen ever in a car at £30k and a touch of class, then you go for the GTI. I would buy it again a million times over, I'm not regretting it one bit and love it. If you price my Spec its around £30k now.
Stitch, give it a good test drive like you said. If your into your automatics then try the DSG, but if you want to drive the little beauty the way its supposed to be driven then test drive the manual too. Other cars I looked at were the S3 and the TT.
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andykram:
Your arguments are compelling and were very similiar to mine.
The only reason I would go for a Mercedes is that it is a status symbol of sorts.
But this reason was not compelling enough and the parking would be hell.
So I chose a Golf GTi!
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the question was " what other cars did u look at". Not sure what's daft about that.
Daft question really :wink:
We have all spent or are going to spend a lot of money on this new Golf but it is worth it, the car is the most luxurious and quiet version yet.
You get what you pays for and with the mk6 you get class in my opinion there aint much better out there.
Gizzy
Didn't mean any offense what I meant was it's a bit daft asking GTI owners on a GTI forum what other cars they'd looked at cos you think £30 grand is too much. It is a car that is well worth whatever it costs just for its pure class.
Gizzy
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Stitch:
Go to bed.
Goodnight!
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I would not be paying current prices because of how high they are i would be wating a few months when the new car bubble bursts and all the insentive sceems finish. I know dealers who are sacred of whats going to happen later in the year.
IMO What other cars people look at is all down to personal circumstance and conditions. Me i wanted 5 seats and practicality and facied a 5 door. Others may look at 2 door sports cars. I wanted a car from companys whos engineering i have delt with previously so that narrowed my choices etc etc.
So i looked at
Skoda Octavia vRS,
SEAT Leon FR TDI,
SEAT Leon FR TSI,
SEAT Leon Cupra, (would also now look at the cupra R now too)
SEAT Ibiza Cupra,
Audi A3 Sline TDI Quattro,
Audi A3 Sline 2.0 TSI,
Audi A3 2.0 TSI Quattro,
Audi A3 S3.
In todays market i would have added the new Polo GTI to this list.
It was a close call with the Skoda for great value and build quality (Skoda know how to screw a car together best in the group!) and the Audis also for value as you can get 10%+ off so makes them cheaper than the golf and to me the interiors use superior plastics.
But im a GTI boy at hart always have been but at todays prices i think i would have been swayed to Audi or Skoda.
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I had to get a golf sized car since the missus didn't feel comfortable driving anything bigger. (only passed her test 2 yrs ago).
So my options were:
- Mk5 Golf GTI (future classic)
- Mk5 Golf R32 (future classic)
- Mazda 3 MPS Aero (loads of power and cheap)
- Alfa 147 GTA (its an Alfa)
- BMW 130i M Sport (creamy inline 6 power)
- Volvo C30 T5 R Design (funky looks)
All second hand, all nice in their own way and all would be less than £15k. But then I saw the Mk6 Golf GTI and though sod it and spent £26k on it! :evil:
I didn't even consider the Focus ST, Renault Meganes, etc. both too raw and boy racer (I graduated from an Accord Type R)
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Well, I paid £22,500 for mine.
Quite good spec too.... :cool:
Rolfe.
What is your spec?
Would you kindly include this in your personal information, please? :wink:
To save dredging it out of the old threads....
5-door
Blue Graphite pearl
DSG
ACC
sunroof
luxury pack
winter pack
flat tyre detector :rolleyes:
Ordered 8th July. Picked up 17th September. £22,500. :cool:
Rolfe.
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Well, I paid £22,500 for mine.
Quite good spec too.... :cool:
Rolfe.
What is your spec?
Would you kindly include this in your personal information, please? :wink:
To save dredging it out of the old threads....
5-door
Blue Graphite pearl
DSG
ACC
sunroof
luxury pack
winter pack
flat tyre detector :rolleyes:
Ordered 8th July. Picked up 17th September. £22,500. :cool:
Rolfe.
That's some discount Rolfe. Retailing at £28'385 now :grin:
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... £30k is decent car territory and whereas I was blinded by the lotus I wasn't totally blind to the fact that other cars existed.
Genuine question and thought being a car forum cars I general would be of interest.
To me £30k for a 'decent' car is way way way too much. In my opinion you can get a perfectly decent and usable brand new ride for £10k-15k. It may not be as luxurious or as fast but I'd say it will be as practical and capable of fitting into your life.
The reason I want to get a GTI is because it will do almost everything that I would want from a car right now. Sure I could probably cope with the car I got now, but I want something that will make me more happy. I will be able to use it every day to drive to work and back. I can give family members lifts when they ask me and even carry some luggage. If some dickhead crashes into me it'll be safer than the car I have now. If I become a dickhead and crash it's less likely I will hurt any passengers I'm carrying. I can put my foot down and it makes a nice sound (except the sound of crashing into a tree...) I won't need to fill it up every 2 days cos of terrible MPG. I love the look of the car - the hint of sporty but not so overwhelming it looks like an edition of MAX POWER. and being brand new it's all mine mine mine!
I haven't gone mad on my order. It is really simply a shi++y basic GTI with the Monza shadows. But even this entry level spec I hope it'll do all of the above and I hope it will provide me many many years of motoring satisfaction.
I would love to get mine now. Damn still haven't got it. I feel like it's almost getting your girlfriend pregnant and waiting for the birth. It's practically taken the same amount of time. :undecided:
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Well, I paid £22,500 for mine.
Quite good spec too.... :cool:
Rolfe.
What is your spec?
Would you kindly include this in your personal information, please? :wink:
To save dredging it out of the old threads....
5-door
Blue Graphite pearl
DSG
ACC
sunroof
luxury pack
winter pack
flat tyre detector :rolleyes:
Ordered 8th July. Picked up 17th September. £22,500. :cool:
Rolfe.
That's some discount Rolfe. Retailing at £28'385 now :grin:
To come completely clean, it included scrappage of my previous car, which was only worth a few hundred as it stood.
Rolfe.
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I paid 26k
Leather,510,dynaudio,xenons,dab,flattyre,18",white,3dr
Prices have gone up since alot of us bought ours though, Would I spend the 26k again, Possibly although the performence isn't what it should be.The interior as noted is by far and away the best avail in a hothatch.
Would I get one again .Grear car and ive not regretted buying it, but Possibly not I planned to run this for 2year and swap for what'll hopefully be an Evo XI
If you want a quick car for daily use abit of class and comfort then the golf is your car. if your all for out and out A to B pace. Ide look at the RS or Evo or even that fkin french 250bhp thing that magazines arnt shutting up about.
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I would not be paying current prices because of how high they are i would be wating a few months when the new car bubble bursts and all the insentive sceems finish. I know dealers who are sacred of whats going to happen later in the year.
IMO What other cars people look at is all down to personal circumstance and conditions. Me i wanted 5 seats and practicality and facied a 5 door. Others may look at 2 door sports cars. I wanted a car from companys whos engineering i have delt with previously so that narrowed my choices etc etc.
So i looked at
Skoda Octavia vRS,
SEAT Leon FR TDI,
SEAT Leon FR TSI,
SEAT Leon Cupra, (would also now look at the cupra R now too)
SEAT Ibiza Cupra,
Audi A3 Sline TDI Quattro,
Audi A3 Sline 2.0 TSI,
Audi A3 2.0 TSI Quattro,
Audi A3 S3.
In todays market i would have added the new Polo GTI to this list.
It was a close call with the Skoda for great value and build quality (Skoda know how to screw a car together best in the group!) and the Audis also for value as you can get 10%+ off so makes them cheaper than the golf and to me the interiors use superior plastics.
But im a GTI boy at hart always have been but at todays prices i think i would have been swayed to Audi or Skoda.
The same applies to me with the exception of the Octavia as it's too big for my shrinking garage.
But, I really don't think I could stomach paying £30k for a Golf though (I fund my own cars and am not a high earner) so bought mine at 4 months old with 5k on the clock for £21000 and have spent about another £1600+ on it since (wheels, tyres, remap and nav). I didn't weigh up any other cars though, cut me open and I'd have Golf GTI written through me like a stick of Blackpool rock. It's the best all rounder and always has been (apart from the mk3).
Spec up a Ford Focus Diesel and you can get it into £30k territory. Car prices are just mad right now.
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Thanks all. Interesting to see what thought process u went through before getting the golf. At least not the only one who justifies spending money on " just a car" as the GF puts it!
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The big issue for me is I bought my 9 month old MK5 GTI which came with leather and RNS510 for £16.5k last Feb. Admittedly this was when the market was low but to buy the same spec. MK6 now would cost circa £26k. As much as I want and like the MK6 I'm struggling to see where the extra £10k can be justified! :huh:
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For MK5 GTI drivers, the mk6 may make no sense for them to trade up. However, VW had made a lot of minor improvement on the MK6 which I think make it appeal to a broader audience. Ie some BMW drivers like me!
Does the car worth £26500 when I paid my final invoice----yes!
Comparing the MK6 GTI with a Focus RS is a bit like comparing a Ferrari California vs a Skylline GTR.
I know which key I rather have!
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Paid GBP 21,750.00 equivalent for mine.. :smiley: but then again, I don't live in Britain.. :wink:
I did look at a bare 135i (business radio only, no sunroof, manual AC) and a spartan 125i (same options as 135i and with only 17" alloys). The 135i was 40% more expensive while the 125i costs around 8% more than the GTI. Good value then.. :smiley:
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After I rejected the second hand '09 GTI that had been previously 'totalled' (see thread), I have secured a replacement for £23,500 brand new, 5-door, including leather and metallic, manual, 18" Monzas :cool:
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Sounds like a canny deal, Mesiter.
Someone has previoulsy stated that bubble may be about to burst with regard to pricing [and maybe subsequent availability], so your deal suggests that there's certainly some thawing ..
Ava
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I hate reading about all of these dirt cheap GTI's! :P
My GTI order without parking sensors, satnav or leather is going to cost me 57k GBP... Hooray! :sick:
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I love reading these threads as times don't change. I bought a MK5 in 2005 and it cost me £19995 STD with no discount. All I remember from then is people bleating at how much a Golf GTI was then. Got a straight swap on a CTR 14 months later which retailed at £16500. Depreciation is why people buy these cars, already informed my dealer that when the order book opens for the MK7 to put my name down....Then the 8,9,10 etc etc etc....
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Thanks all. Interesting to see what thought process u went through before getting the golf. At least not the only one who justifies spending money on " just a car" as the GF puts it!
Use that line next time she buys "just a handbag" :evil:
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i look at it like this. Is the gti mk6 worth 30k? No. Is the mk6 gti worth low to mid 20k? yes. If you can live without xenons and leather which at lot of people do, you can get yourself a fairly basic gti, the colour/doors and wheels you want and then just add sat nav or rcd510 as a retrofit and thats all you really need. IMO.
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That's a tricky one for me. Having "invested" in a few cars over the years (Lotus specifically) when I bought the Mk5 GTi I set myself a budget and wanted a car upto 6 months old. I paid c£21k ish (i think!) for a GTI with metallic paint, 18" monza II's and the storage pack - so a fairly standard car.
Unfortunatley, I regret not getting a car with Xenons, leather and centre console so i've come to the conclusion that if you're going to spend £2k on a car than fine, take what you can get but if you're spending upwartds of £25k on a car - get something you really want which is where the £30k Mk6 comes in and then you're into a lot of othernice car territory (Cayman S's, 335i M sport etc etc).
i look at it like this. Is the gti mk6 worth 30k? No. Is the mk6 gti worth low to mid 20k? yes. If you can live without xenons and leather which at lot of people do, you can get yourself a fairly basic gti, the colour/doors and wheels you want and then just add sat nav or rcd510 as a retrofit and thats all you really need. IMO.
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I've had a car with and without Xenons (obviously) and now having them, it would be quite literally a crime to not spec them now if the choice is there. They are by far and away the best extra I have put on my GTI.
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I've had a car with and without Xenons (obviously) and now having them, it would be quite literally a crime to not spec them now if the choice is there. They are by far and away the best extra I have put on my GTI.
+1, I fully agree with Kev also the dynaudio upgrade is stunning.
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I've had a car with and without Xenons (obviously) and now having them, it would be quite literally a crime to not spec them now if the choice is there. They are by far and away the best extra I have put on my GTI.
+1, I fully agree with Kev also the dynaudio upgrade is stunning.
+1 on that, and its a fairly cheap upgrade too.
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I agree with Kev - there are options that once you've had them then you can't do without them - Xenons are one of them! Parking sensors are another, oh and heated seats, and......... :grin:
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Looked at the following before going with the Golf:
1. New shape E Class - nice car, good price after discounts but felt too old for me.
2. M3 (4 door) - very very nice car sounded awesome with the V8, just felt a little too ostentatious or a night club owner. Still wondering if I made the wrong choice re the GTI vs M3 (GTI waiting time is just plain dumb, if I had got delayed again would have canned the order and gone for M3
3. 335i m sport (4 door) - nice blue one looked at in blue was stunning, didn’t like the interior and pref the M3.
4. 535i m sport - then found out it was 4 star NCAP!
5. S3 - hated it to sit in, felt cheep and nasty inside, felt like a nike trainer, didn't even bother with a test drive (each to their own but.. uch!!)
6. CLS 350 - this was my pref (think it' a stunning car!) however the rear door entry was too low if you need a baby seat in the back so ended up M3 vs GTI.
In the end....
Took the GTI for a test drive, loved the new interior nice place to be even on long drive, 5 door is perfect if you've got a little one & need car seats \ access etc, reasonable cost to buy and seemed low cost to run (ordered pre price rise and got a good deal), wife is happy to drive it (hates large cars), and most of all it put one huge smile on my face on the test drive - got the same buzz when I took out the mk5 for a test drive 3-4 years ago.