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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: p3eps on 07 April 2007, 10:30
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I keep reading posts about people saying 'maybe they'll fix this in the Mk6' and 'The Mk6 will have this' etc etc. Does anyone actually know when a Mk6 Golf is likely to emmerge?!
I'm still waiting for my Ed30 Mk5 to arrive and am a little worried that I might only have it for 6 months or something before they bring out a newer model?!
Surely if the Golf has been around for 30 years and is currently on Mk5, it must be about 5-6 years per version? The Mk5 has only been out since about mid 2003, so surely it wont be due a replacement for at least another year or 2?!?!
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I have consistently heard that the Mk6 is coming out next year... I was planning on getting a Mk5 R32 next year but have heard that all 3-door Golfs will be sportier and lightweight while the 5-doors will become something like the Golf Plus although I think thats just rumours.
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It was sent back to the drawing board on looks and quality this year by the new head of VW Martin Winterkorn. So the time scale that was set in place by the previous head Bernt Pischetsrieder is sort of up in the air.
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It was sent back to the drawing board on looks and quality this year by the new head of VW Martin Winterkorn. So the time scale that was set in place by the previous head Bernt Pischetsrieder is sort of up in the air.
Yup,
I read the same in Autotrader a few months back. The item also mentioned that they had to simplify the production process to get down the amount of hours it would take to produce each one. Again it smacks of cost saving and corner cutting. I just hope that they don't go backwards in trying to move forwards...if you get my drift.
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Just found this on another forum: http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/news/auto_-_produkte/hxcms_article_502994_14140.hbs
Apparently its going to be out next summer?
It kinda sucks waiting for a new car when you know there will be a newer model in a year!
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hope they don't release that! looks :sick:
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According to someone I spoke to "on the inside" they have brought the release of the Mk6 forward by 2 years because the Mk5 is not selling well and it costs so much to build. 2 years I say??? :shocked: I reckon its a disaster in the making. It seems to me VW are all about cutting corners recently!!!
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hope they don't release that! looks :sick:
It really doesn't look very good does it :undecided:
I'm suprised to hear that the mk5 isn't selling very well, I see plenty about :shocked:
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If Walter de Silva gets his hands on the restyle it will be a mess just look at the current SEAT range for what may happen.
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Looks like a bloody BMW 1 series, apparently the mk5 costs more to make than they sell them for, that will be the reasoning I think.
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just to add, some pics of the new Golf Mk6 are on the front cover of auto express this week, worth a read, also explains why the mk 5 is so expensive to build and the mk6 will have alot of corners cut to cut production costs, i wont spoil the read, go get the mag ! :wink:
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I've also read in mags that the Mk6 will be out by the end of next year. I wouldn't worry too much though if you're a GTI/Ed30/R32 owner as its usually a least another year or two before the GTI et al come out. My Ed30 comes in May and I can't wait. I certainly couldn't be botherd to wait another couple of years for the replacement. Anyway, come 3 years, I'll probably trade mine in for the new one and have had 3 fantastic years. Here's hoping. :smiley:
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that may be true, but the new one is based on the current platform and so it will be easier and quicker to make a GTI/R32 etc. greedy VW need to claw some cash back, so I predict early 2009 for a GTI.... :nerd:
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that may be true, but the new one is based on the current platform and so it will be easier and quicker to make a GTI/R32 etc. greedy VW need to claw some cash back, so I predict early 2009 for a GTI.... :nerd:
Ah well, that gives me 2 years to start saving for the new one then! :grin: