« Reply #96 on: 11 June 2013, 15:43 »
VW dealers will be loving the cancelled orders as it just gives them the opportunity to order the cars into stock at a premium price. The captive orders they already had will just sit on the back burner same as now.
The only way VW will take any notice is if there is a mass boycott and people order other marques. That's not going to happen right now and they know it. They can afford their Teutonic arrogance right now. Any drop in UK sales will just enable them to concentrate on other more economical markets (LHD ones!).
As for the SEAT, an excellent choice and those that doubt the cache of the Diesel FR's will be blissfully unaware of the cult following FR TDIs have and the fact that they actually have very low depreciation in £££ terms compared to other SEATs and generally a lot of cars.
The 1.8 TSI may match or better it on paper but it won't have the same satisfying grunt.
I still have this nagging doubt that the soon to be revealed Cupra will just be a much better car than the GTI (with the bland dashboard being the only drawback). The just announced Octavia vRS looks awesome but is just too big for my purposes.
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