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Offline Neil gti

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Re: SilverChariot's Golf R Test Drive
« Reply #10 on: 22 January 2010, 23:12 »
Excellent write up  :wink:
Shame about the dodgy colour thou  :sick:
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Re: SilverChariot's Golf R Test Drive
« Reply #11 on: 22 January 2010, 23:29 »
It all sounds good and exactly what I'm after.  Something I can drive back and forth to work in... but have some fun at the weekend or if some chav pulls up next to me at the lights!

I found the gear change in the MK6 GTI very vague compared to my MK5... almost like it was flapping about a bit!
My dealer will have one for me next week to test drive - a 3 door DSG - so it will be more like my order.  I'm looking forward to trying something fast with DSG as they only had a GTD for me to test it in (the GTD was still pretty quick though!)

Thanks for the write up   :smiley:
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Re: SilverChariot's Golf R Test Drive
« Reply #12 on: 22 January 2010, 23:43 »
Thanks for posting ... great review & photos  :tongue:
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Re: SilverChariot's Golf R Test Drive
« Reply #13 on: 23 January 2010, 00:30 »
You can get an Evo 330 sst for less than the Golf R.
Neither car floats my boat, the Golf R in this weeks Autoexpress test comes out as worse than the standard GTI and the Evo is just too fast.
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Offline Chins

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Re: SilverChariot's Golf R Test Drive
« Reply #14 on: 23 January 2010, 08:25 »
Quote from: SilverChariot on 22 January 2010, 20:27
Quote from: carl1 on 22 January 2010, 20:21
it does make you realise how expensive it is when see it in the flesh and drive it. What sort of pcp was they offering you? Off the top of my head they offered me on £31500 R £9450 deposit, 35 payments of £420 and future value/final value of 12.5k.

P.s ive never brought a car on pcp so no idea if it was any good but it seemed a bit expensive to me.

Similar to you. I would expect a GMFV after 3 years of at least 50% of purchase price on a car like that. Merc can do it on most their models. And they'll give you discount too.

I almost posted on this yesterday. I have been getting my figures in from my finance broker. I tend to have a couple of cars a year myself, plus buy the cars for my company, so end up doing a number of finance deals a year. . You will be very pushed to get 50% gmfv nowadays.  My Porsche that I bough 6 months ago at about 47%. I asked for figures on the Golf R, Scirocco, GTI and S3 yesterday.

What became clear is that some underwritters have yet to get to grips with the R. The GTI was given 12.7k after 3 years (£27.5k), the R 11.5k (32.5k). The Scirocco was similar to the R. The S3 13.5k (30.5k). All cars DSG and 10kmpa.

What I would really expect with the R is : £14,250 RV. If I put 9.5k down on a 31.5k car I would expect monthly payments to be: £350

VW finance tends to be very conservative on RV's.
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Re: SilverChariot's Golf R Test Drive
« Reply #15 on: 23 January 2010, 09:02 »
Quote from: Egbert Nosh on 23 January 2010, 00:30
You can get an Evo 330 sst for less than the Golf R.
Neither car floats my boat, the Golf R in this weeks Autoexpress test comes out as worse than the standard GTI and the Evo is just too fast.

it's not in this weeks autoexpress......   :rolleyes:
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Re: SilverChariot's Golf R Test Drive
« Reply #16 on: 23 January 2010, 09:18 »
Just but the Magazine "Car" (Spain), it has a 3 pages Review and they give 5/5 stars!. They are a little bit disappointed with the DSG saying that it does what ever it wants, not what you want to do, unless you put it in the manual mode. With the automatic mode - "D"- the car always tries to start in 2nd gear to safe Gas, this makes it a little bit slow.  I do really think that this is really strange after what I have been reading everywhere about the DSG, maybe it is a problem from that unit. Apart from all that, they say is the best golf ever. A lot faster than the R32 MKV, Stick to the road and very comfortable. It´s funny what they say.. For those who will say that it is a lot of money for a Golf compare to a Focus RS, just find a Ford, sit down, check the interior and you will find out how they saved all that money you are not spending. Next month they´ll do another review but in Spain without snow, and rain (it was done Germany). Oh and as the say at the end.. Finally there is a Golf R that puts Volkswagen in the place it should be, fixing what the others R32 did before, promising things they never did. With the new Golf R we found the perfect Golf, a GTI... with very BIGGER BALLS.
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Re: SilverChariot's Golf R Test Drive
« Reply #17 on: 23 January 2010, 12:21 »
^^^^

That sounds very similar to the EVO review (in fact the same except for the stars).

DSG in D mode is always going to be like that so it's hardly a big deal. D is for Dawdling around town and relaxing in IMHO

The only way to drive the car seriously is in "M" mode.  Afterall D and S mode cannot see any bends & corners ahead, only the driver can see those and choose the appropriate gear with M mode.   
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Re: SilverChariot's Golf R Test Drive
« Reply #18 on: 23 January 2010, 12:23 »
Can I echo what's been posted already - thanks for taking the time to post this write-up with pix; top man and well done!.



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Re: SilverChariot's Golf R Test Drive
« Reply #19 on: 23 January 2010, 12:41 »
Great post Silver!!

Thats sounds just like the kind of car i am after :evil: :evil:

Horrific PCP figures though. I paid about 15% of that deposit amount and pay 40% less than that monthly figure for my GTI. Doing the maths.. its alot to pay for a few stick on bits and 4wd even though I really want one :undecided:
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