Mk6 GTI Spectacularly poor value!

[VWKev]

This is along the lines I was thinking. Just don't see that the higher price can be blamed on the current weakness of the pound and it's not as if VW will change the price if the £ recovers is it!!

There will obviously be plenty of people willing to pay what VW are asking, but for that money I really will be going elsewhere for my second car and holding on to my MkV.

No VW wont, but what VW will do is contact their retailers and give them a higher discount from the car, then in turn its up to us to haggle it out of them.

[davoaj]

Good point.

Think I'll be over the road haggling with BMW though and keeping the MkV.

[carl1]

whats all this get a bmw crap instead has anyone priced up a brand new base equivalant perfomance 3 series m sport against a brand new base gti. Id say simalar performace is a 325i £29625, £31775 if you want the coupe against £22415 3 door or £23015 5 door gti. It is unfair to compare the two, if you are talking 2nd hand bmw against a brand new gti turn it around and compare a 2 year old gti (got to be a mk5 at the moment) around 12.5k-14k to £29625 new 325i m sport bmw. 

[Tailpipe]

This is along the lines I was thinking. Just don't see that the higher price can be blamed on the current weakness of the pound and it's not as if VW will change the price if the £ recovers is it!!

There will obviously be plenty of people willing to pay what VW are asking, but for that money I really will be going elsewhere for my second car and holding on to my MkV.

No VW wont, but what VW will do is contact their retailers and give them a higher discount from the car, then in turn its up to us to haggle it out of them.

As soon as the pound strengthens against the euro, it will make sense for us to buy our GTIs in Europe rather than over here. Volkswagen UK are well aware of this, so will either offer deals - like throwing in the ACC for free or improving the standard spec without increasing the price or as davoaj says, allow dealers greater scope to offer hagglers a discount. So message is don't be in a hurry to buy and haggle like crazy.

[VWKev]

This is along the lines I was thinking. Just don't see that the higher price can be blamed on the current weakness of the pound and it's not as if VW will change the price if the £ recovers is it!!

There will obviously be plenty of people willing to pay what VW are asking, but for that money I really will be going elsewhere for my second car and holding on to my MkV.

No VW wont, but what VW will do is contact their retailers and give them a higher discount from the car, then in turn its up to us to haggle it out of them.

As soon as the pound strengthens against the euro, it will make sense for us to buy our GTIs in Europe rather than over here. Volkswagen UK are well aware of this, so will either offer deals - like throwing in the ACC for free or improving the standard spec without increasing the price or as davoaj says, allow dealers greater scope to offer hagglers a discount. So message is don't be in a hurry to buy and haggle like crazy.

no, I said that. 

[Tailpipe]

This is along the lines I was thinking. Just don't see that the higher price can be blamed on the current weakness of the pound and it's not as if VW will change the price if the £ recovers is it!!

There will obviously be plenty of people willing to pay what VW are asking, but for that money I really will be going elsewhere for my second car and holding on to my MkV.

No VW wont, but what VW will do is contact their retailers and give them a higher discount from the car, then in turn its up to us to haggle it out of them.

As soon as the pound strengthens against the euro, it will make sense for us to buy our GTIs in Europe rather than over here. Volkswagen UK are well aware of this, so will either offer deals - like throwing in the ACC for free or improving the standard spec without increasing the price or as davoaj says, allow dealers greater scope to offer hagglers a discount. So message is don't be in a hurry to buy and haggle like crazy.

no, I said that. 

Sorry!! I wasn't sure.