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I saw your post earlier via Volkswizard , I also had similar spec ordered here in Ireland and would also feel aggrieved if I couldn't order the black option wheel.
I contacted my dealer re above and have yet to hear anything back. I don't know how this is the case as the black option wheel was used as the flagship model on launch of car. Seems bizarre

You can have our wheels as we ordered performance pack with the queenstown red glaze wheel

Yeah I have an online “brochure” that states order is with the factory and parts are being checked. This hasn’t changed for sometime. The dealer emails every few weeks to there’s no change in the status. I’m not stressing about it I’m sure it will be worth the wait 🤔

I appreciate you’re an engineer and would want some tangible technical details, and those might actually be out there somewhere in German language format if you dive deep enough into the internet bowels.
The only details I can provide are woolly memories from press launches and ownership experience.

The Drive profiles and Dynamics overlap to a certain extent.
The Drive part affects steering, throttle, gearbox, aircon, noise etc where as the Dynamics will bring in the VDM, ESC, Diff and such like plus the active safety parameters can be tweaked accordingly.
That’s a very summarised version and it varies between models too.

Motorway traffic ahead will part like the biblical Red Sea!

It’s the blue lights behind me that might be the problem……

I just have the feeling that 2026 is a sweet spot for my residual value.

Another 12 months and 5,000 miles might be less so.

At the moment DTD is offering around 17% discount using PCP contribution on top of dealer contribution.

Motorway suggest circa 19 for my car (would hope to get more when full details are disclosed). Just been serviced and MOT to 3/27, new Goodyears, one owner, etc.

So cash equivalent cost to change is not savage but can only go in one direction.

I paid £28k new in 3/19 so value has been good for me.

To get the options I would want in a new GTI 8.5 would put me over the MRP £40k limit and on principle I won’t do that.

I’m in the same situation but with a 2019 7.5 Performance which has just passed 50,000 miles.

I used to “scratch the itch” every couple of years but this has been such a great car.

In the next couple of months I will order a Skoda Octavia vRS which as you will know is pure Golf 8.5 GTI under the skin.

I looked at other options by this is the only thing that floats my boat…… and takes me back to my pre-Golf days of 2010 when I had a new vRS to succeed a couple of A3s.

The vRS is no longer a “cheap” alternative but in terms of value it looks good. And essential extras like metallic paint and 19” alloys are free (VW please note!!!!)

The vRS hatchback still comfortably slips in below the dreaded extra 40k tax band as well.

I like the Octavia . The three box shape is quite deceptive - it looks like a saloon car even though it’s a hatchback.