Ok one from the normal GTi club corner, residuals mean nothing with edition 30, show me an 07 with better residuals then a standard GTi with more extras....... sorry to break up the ED30 orgy here , but us porper standard GTi owners must be counted!! 
. but if buying your 1st GTi mk 5, then stretch to the ED30 if your a performance nutter and thats your thang, (not everyone is). If you dont like tartan/leather mix then cross off the ED30 from your list. i say get a Gti, with the most extras included as dealers will make you think its worthless on resale when its NOT.
afterall in my weak defense here, the Standard GTi is always a more highly rated car with 5 stars from Whatcar,(FACT) and the ED30 is 4 stars. (ducks and waits for the backlash!) both superb cars though and neither will dissapoint. |Must haves are DSG and posh headlights
Haven't we heard this umpteen times before Phil?
And you'd get an Edition 30 yourself if you could by your own admission...
The 4 and 5 star rating was given by a Jock who doesn't know what he's talking about - didn't even know about the internal Ed30 changes... Most Ed30 reviews - esp 6 months ago were ill-informed and factually way of the mark in many cases...
If you want a proper review of the Ed30, read the recent review of the manual version in VW Driver magazine when they called it 'the bargain of the century' in terms of what you get and were full of praise for it. They also initially were lukewarm about it - in a previous review of the Ed30 in DSG guise - as they didn't have all the facts to hand which they admitted in the 2nd review of the manual version.
