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Had her first bath this morning

Looks great, and great reflections in the Moss Green paintwork .

However, I was more drawn to the mk4 R32 in the post - reply #8 - by @Barrym381 above yours (apologies!). The first VW I owned was a Deep Black Pearl mk4 Golf (sadly, not an R32) that I have very fond memories of. It wasn’t the most dynamic car to drive, but the build quality felt top notch and quite premium compared to the competition in it’s day.

I've just bought some michelin ps4s tyres to replace the hankooks it came with,
I'm thinking of fitting front strut brace and some other under side braces
I have a 2023 clubsport

Contacted by dealer today and my Edition 50 has been built and I have my Vin number, hopeful it makes the boat to Ireland sooner rather than later!!!!!

The blinds are not visable from the outside as the windows are tinted but the rear one does look dark looking in the rear view mirror   Also don’t stop the banging noise you get with the back windows open

Someone at VW will have to make a decision on numbers sooner or later. Probably sooner.
Speaking to a dealer in April 2025 immediately after the sales manager had returned from Wolfsburg to get a preview of the Ed50 amongst other things at HQ they’d been told there would be unlimited numbers and the order book would be open from the very start of 2026 until the very end. No doubt VW UK (as opposed to VW HQ) will have their own ideas and possibly things have changed at the factory since then, I’d have imagined that components would have to be ordered in quite well in advance of production slots.

Going back to the Ed40, they sold in small numbers owing to price and lack of incentives (sound familiar?) and quite a few were scattered around in various specs to dealers in the UK in early 2017 who were then told to pre-register any remaining ones in March 2017 (and I bought one of those in early May 2017 with a sizeable saving).

Moral of the story, don’t take as gospel what you hear from UK VW dealers! Things seem to change from VW UK from time to time.

Garwen, love the car, that’ll be the sought after spec in years to come I’d imagine. The bottle of Moët was a nice touch. I did see some photos Sinclair put up (who I don’t follow but my VW related algorithms must’ve picked up) on social whatnots.