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Title: VW Prices and specs are beyond me!
Post by: gizzywizzy on 21 March 2010, 12:24
Just seen an advert for a Passat Highline Plus starting at £21,345.

So it comes with leather upholstery, heated front seats, a touchscreen sat-nav, bluetooth and cruise as standard.

Why is it these are only available as pricey options on the GTI which in itself is a more expensive car anyway!

I believe that VW takes its customers for a ride and just try to p**s us off.

Gizzy
Title: Re: VW Prices and specs are beyond me!
Post by: am1w on 21 March 2010, 12:43
I believe that VW takes its customers for a ride and just try to p**s us off.
Gizzy

+1.
BTW, saw only one Mk 6 Golf in Copenhagen: a white 5 door Bluemotion on very small wheels which made it look really top heavy!
Cars very expensive in Denmark due to high taxes. Most expensive cars were Mercedes taxis!
Very expensive city with prices twice+ those in London.
Very friendly, happy and kind people with a great sense of humour. Nicest people I have come across apart from you! :kiss:
Won't be going back unless it is for work and all paid for.

I also know this post will irritate GTi forum flatearthers! :laugh:
Title: Re: VW Prices and specs are beyond me!
Post by: Komenda on 21 March 2010, 12:46
Supply and demand. People pay for it, they provide it. On the flip side a large chunk of profit goes towards new product development.

For better or worse VW are not a company that stands still, one of the reasons why the British car makers fell on their arse.
Title: Re: VW Prices and specs are beyond me!
Post by: FroGTI on 21 March 2010, 13:22
The Passat is being replaced soon, that's why.
Title: Re: VW Prices and specs are beyond me!
Post by: gizzywizzy on 21 March 2010, 14:31
The Passat is being replaced soon, that's why.

Oh right so that's them ridding themselves of surplus stock?  Pretty pricey if there's a new model coming along soon.
Title: Re: VW Prices and specs are beyond me!
Post by: am1w on 21 March 2010, 20:10
A friend of mine, who is a sales manager, has one of these.
The leather is really horrible and cheap looking and after 2 weeks of use it looked 10 years old.
The seats don't grip and one keeps slipping forward when braking and sliding around when going round corners.
That was one sick cow they used!
Title: Re: VW Prices and specs are beyond me!
Post by: gizzywizzy on 21 March 2010, 20:14
A friend of mine, who is a sales manager, has one of these.
The leather is really horrible and cheap looking and after 2 weeks of use it looked 10 years old.
The seats don't grip and one keeps slipping forward when braking and sliding around when going round corners.
That was one sick cow they used!


Lol :laugh: Glad you're back :wink:

Gizzy
Title: Re: VW Prices and specs are beyond me!
Post by: am1w on 21 March 2010, 20:16
A friend of mine, who is a sales manager, has one of these.
The leather is really horrible and cheap looking and after 2 weeks of use it looked 10 years old.
The seats don't grip and one keeps slipping forward when braking and sliding around when going round corners.
That was one sick cow they used!
Lol :laugh: Glad you're back :wink:
Gizzy

Glad you missed me! :kiss:
Title: Re: VW Prices and specs are beyond me!
Post by: gizzywizzy on 21 March 2010, 20:19
A friend of mine, who is a sales manager, has one of these.
The leather is really horrible and cheap looking and after 2 weeks of use it looked 10 years old.
The seats don't grip and one keeps slipping forward when braking and sliding around when going round corners.
That was one sick cow they used!
Lol :laugh: Glad you're back :wink:
Gizzy

Glad you
   






 missed me! :kiss:

No one to banter with, tho knowing this lot we'll get jumped on for not talking GTI :laugh:
Title: Re: VW Prices and specs are beyond me!
Post by: am1w on 21 March 2010, 20:24
A friend of mine, who is a sales manager, has one of these.
The leather is really horrible and cheap looking and after 2 weeks of use it looked 10 years old.
The seats don't grip and one keeps slipping forward when braking and sliding around when going round corners.
That was one sick cow they used!
Lol :laugh: Glad you're back :wink:
Gizzy
Glad you missed me! :kiss:
No one to banter with, tho knowing this lot we'll get jumped on for not talking GTI :laugh:

I know!
PLU, PLT!
Go to the nonsense thread and we can vent our feelings! :laugh:
Title: Re: VW Prices and specs are beyond me!
Post by: Snoopy on 21 March 2010, 21:05
VW think of a number and double it. You could also look on how can SEAT and skoda be so much cheaper when using similar parts. VW you pay for the badge, GTI you pay for the badge again.
Title: Re: VW Prices and specs are beyond me!
Post by: James Gould on 21 March 2010, 21:29
Reckon anything will happen this week, Snoops?
Title: Re: VW Prices and specs are beyond me!
Post by: Snoopy on 21 March 2010, 21:43
What you meen?
Title: Re: VW Prices and specs are beyond me!
Post by: denyason on 22 March 2010, 00:07
the gti is a motoring icon.  it invented the 'hot hatch'.  another icon is the 911.  there are not many motors u could say are truely iconic cars. 
another is mini, the beetle.......
icons cost more, are more desirable and defines the brand.  i would even say it the 'top' model of the vw range.  icons dont just appear- they are instilled through yrs of graft.  the mark 6 is the latest version  of that heritage.  you're getting a piece of history, not just a piece of engineering. the passat is 'just a ' vw model.  not as desirable so not as expensive.  not only that- one should always be aware of free options, or discounts=  its a sure sign of either low sales or they're trying to sell them b4 a new model comes out.  if something is in demand- ask yourself ,"why would we need to lower our prices".  from readin the forum- the gti is high demand - i knew that already but thats the proof you need. 
Title: Re: VW Prices and specs are beyond me!
Post by: percymon on 22 March 2010, 14:53
Just seen an advert for a Passat Highline Plus starting at £21,345.

So it comes with leather upholstery, heated front seats, a touchscreen sat-nav, bluetooth and cruise as standard.

Why is it these are only available as pricey options on the GTI which in itself is a more expensive car anyway!

I believe that VW takes its customers for a ride and just try to p**s us off.

Gizzy

Called supply and demand !

Passat sales are dropping off as its an old model now - business users are findign good lease deals on BMW and Audi diesels with low taxation and high mpg.  If VW wants to shift a fairly boring large family saloon it needs to offer incentives - fancy wheels and a leatehr interior don't cost VW much more than steel wheels and a cloth interior, but the apparent savings to the customer look big.

VW will always make big margins on a Golf - its their volume seller so economies of scale for parts procurement are huge. The golf's good reputation as a small/medium family car, loved by the motoring press, means it has little trouble finding willing buyers.
Title: Re: VW Prices and specs are beyond me!
Post by: Snoopy on 22 March 2010, 15:07
it invented the 'hot hatch'. 
Im glad you put that in quotes as its a myth that it did :wink: There were other hothatches out before the GTI.