GTI Edition 50 first press release

[MrEdition50]

Yes Vw uk any questions I have I email her as she is keeping the case open until we have received our car

So they are basically going to release the cars in bunches across the uk so everyone gets one roughly at the same time? My order went in on the 15th of January and I was hoping that would make me high on the list but now I’m thinking it’s just a lottery,

Thanks for this, I believe it to be correct, no such thing as order first build first, I’ve just been told a build week of 20 and they received my order on the 16th of January, I did fully spec the car leaving out head up and the leather seats, so yeah maybe it’s just the batch mine is allocated to we shall see! Still excited
If the ED50 is a truly limited production run of a specific small number of vehicles, it probably does make sense for VW to build them all in a specific batch - or batches - which would then mean customers receiving their vehicles at roughly the same time.

It’s always been a bit of a mystery how VW schedule specific vehicles for production; seems that ordering early is no guarantee of an early build. Historically, there seems to be no correlation between order date and build date. I can remember a few years ago (think it might have been when the mk7 GTI was launched), a forum member creating a spreadsheet of other forum member’s car order details (e.g. vehicle spec, order dates and confirmed build dates) to try and understand how / when VW allocated specific vehicles for production but it didn’t help - if anything, it created even more confusion / uncertainty.

I dare say a customer’s chosen spec might (will?) also affect when their car’s scheduled to be built as VW are unlikely to allocate cars to specific build weeks until all of the manufacturers of a customer’s chosen options have confirmed availability of those options and / or when they’ll be able to supply them. Assuming this to be so, then ‘fully loaded’ cars might not be scheduled for production as soon as standard spec cars due to the more complex supply chain (more manufacturers / suppliers in the supply chain increases the risk that there could be delays if some manufacturers have production or supply issues themselves).

[Garwen]

Latest news on our order the car is at the port in the uk and will be with  the dealer soon
 Yahoooooooo

[CrunchtheApple78]

Wow, that’s amazing! My CS was ordered on 5th Dec and isn’t being built until end of April…

[Legally Binding]

Either VW UK is upping its import numbers or VW Murray Newton Abbot has the wrong information because on their auto trader Ad it’s saying 1 of1500 coming to the UK.

Perhaps VW UK has gauged there is more interest so upped it. Although, the TCR - which has a similar position to the ED 50 of mechanical and visual upgrades - had approx 900 registered in the UK.

Who knows!

[Garwen]

Who knows indeed also our dealer said there will be no number plate inside ie 1 of 1000 that was just rumours 
 Also on the configurator the price is now over 48k starting

[Legally Binding]

The build dates are a little longer than I thought. Mine is scheduled for build last week of May.

I see the £1000 contribution has been removed by VW.

I also got confirmation each car will receive the following name plate, which I think looks good.

Not sure if it was a rumour, but here’s the post from early. To me it looks like VW intranet/internal comms for their staff. They may have back-stepped on the plate idea if they’re forecasting more than 1000+ orders. Me personally, I would like a numbered plate, it looks quite good!

Was it not always 48k? Has the entire range price increased?

[Garwen]

I saw that plate and also hope it is true as it looks great
 No the price was just under 48 now it’s just over I think by £80 but it’s still an increase that shouldn’t happen

[MrEdition50]

I have information and the message from internal vw showing exactly where and how to fit the limited edition plaques and it is only 1000 units this plaque is the one they are used, they say that once the build has a bin number the numbered plaques get automatically issued and sent out to the supplying dealers, 100% 1-1000 and numbered car

[Paul70]

This guy has posted a few videos on YT - one a top speed run and one a Ring lap. The guy can drive and the car looks very impressive.


https://youtu.be/MC9dCkjRTr8