GTi GTD Demonstrators

[Cats]

My dealer told me that ADC was not originally to be on GTI's but was later changed and it looks like this was after the first demonstrators build schedule.

[monkeyhanger]

My dealer told me that ADC was not originally to be on GTI's but was later changed and it looks like this was after the first demonstrators build schedule.

We only started seeing GTI demos filtering through 3 or 4 weeks ago. They would have been scheduled for build 6 weeks before that (assuming 2 weeks delivery, which we have seen is very very plausible).

ADC was a known standard equipment for the UK market earlier than 10 weeks ago but as they were MY13 builds they decided not to include ADC (even though it was available to MY13 cars as an optional extra - mad IMO).

[Cats]

These cars are going to be hard to sell as ex-demontrators with ADC missing and what about insurance for a car that's not standard. Did this feature not lower the insurance group by 5 places?

[Cats]

Interesting just went on meerka.com to get a quote and they are listing two versions of GTI for both standard and performance editions with "launch model" being shown. Are these cars without ADC?

[monkeyhanger]

Are these cars without ADC?

Yes. Could make a canny difference to premiums fror someone looking to be paying more than £500 a year for their insurance. Did you do an example quote for each variant to see the  differences?

[Cats]

Tried both versions, no difference in quoted price.

[Bill_the_Bear]

Tried both versions, no difference in quoted price.

What were the quotes though?

[Cats]

Tried both versions, no difference in quoted price.

What were the quotes though?

£179 for protected fully comp. with Hastings but once I get a registration number Saga will be cheaper, about the only advantage of being old is car insurance. 

[Bill_the_Bear]

Tried both versions, no difference in quoted price.

What were the quotes though?

£179 for protected fully comp. with Hastings but once I get a registration number Saga will be cheaper, about the only advantage of being old is car insurance. 

Bloody hell dude!  Less than £200? Wow.

... Can you be a second driver on mine when it arrives?

[Cats]

Tried both versions, no difference in quoted price.

What were the quotes though?

£179 for protected fully comp. with Hastings but once I get a registration number Saga will be cheaper, about the only advantage of being old is car insurance. 

Bloody hell dude!  Less than £200? Wow.

... Can you be a second driver on mine when it arrives?

Don't think that would help as it's always based on the youngest driver. Saga should be around £150 as that's what they quoted me for a new Fiesta ST which I think are the same insurance group.