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Quote from: king monkey on 26 April 2026, 11:14

Order cancelled yesterday. After lots of thinking, I’m still not convinced about the ride quality and I’m not buying a car that can’t be discounted.

There was £1000 discount available for a very short period if you were on the button like me 🤣 I have to say, there is a lot of debating (whining) about the lack of discount on the ED50. This is a £50K vehicle, the APR is a lot lower than the other more heavily discounted GTIs, when you add of all this up, you are probably debating about a couple of grand here or there. Which, for a £50K car is not a lot. And when you include what options DCC etc this car already has, and the fact it is a special edition, I really don’t understand the frustration. If you like the car and can afford it, pay the premium, if you don’t wanna, then don’t, but I’m not sure VW can really be targeted. It is what it is

Order cancelled yesterday. After lots of thinking, I’m still not convinced about the ride quality and I’m not buying a car that can’t be discounted.

Quote from: Garwen on 22 April 2026, 06:29

Thank you all for your kind words 
 We will double check Tuesday but was under the impression they are standard  and should be fitted  when they do the of
 Will ring later to check and remind them about the blocks
 Wendy first golf was a yellow mk1 not gti 
The gti came years later on the mk2 in grey 8v only sold the parcel shelf last month  I then bought a 16v in grey for my self in 1989 and sold that 3 years ago along the way have owned mk1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7.5 8 now 8.5 
 So probably the last golf she will own as is adamant she is never going electric lol

You've got enough Golf to be featured in the GTI Stories page!

Quote from: Pooksta_5 on 24 April 2026, 16:46

Collected my ED50 today from dealer in the North East 😀 so happy with the colour, there is so much black gloss going on that the red just fits perfect. Wheels compliment it perfectly. Centre spinning caps included as standard, no plaque

No pics yet as unfortunately drove it very sensibly straight to the detailers for front end (and side sills) PPF and ceramic coatings next week. Don’t expect it back until Thursday or Friday. Loved it though. info screen is actually really good, velour steering wheel nice, engine noise, nice 🤣 felt the nuts. My only question mark would be the ED50 badges, they are effectively stuck on, which, let’s see how that goes over time.

Congrats! Shame about the lack of a plaque, if it was going to happened it would have been applied to your car as it's been delivered already. If you're getting front PPF, it may include the mirrors and they might apply PPF over the label, which should keep it fresh.

Mirrors are getting done as are the gloss black side sills. They said they won’t ppf over the label as you will see the bubble around it, but that was when we were discussing the rear bumper so I need to ask about that actually.