GTD order bombshell - will this affect other GTDs?

[GolfTi]

I don't want to get shouted at like last time but I'm still convinced the GTD will be a month or so behind the GTI.

1. Reviews have only just started appearing.
2. No demo cars in the UK (due soon apparently)
3. VW planned the GTI release before the GTD release, this has been mentioned a  few times from various sources.

There seem to be some confirmed early GTD build dates but not many.

[Bill_the_Bear]

I don't want to get shouted at like last time but I'm still convinced the GTD will be a month or so behind the GTI.

1. Reviews have only just started appearing.
2. No demo cars in the UK (due soon apparently)
3. VW planned the GTI release before the GTD release, this has been mentioned a  few times from various sources.

There seem to be some confirmed early GTD build dates but not many.

Well. I guess that depends how you define behind?  If you mean date from first GTI to first GTD then yes we have seen a GTI arrive already but it's a few weeks until a GTD will be here (that we know of).  On the other hand because it seems like GTIs are trickling through at a painfully slow rate, a "delay" of a month on the GTD would appear practically non-existent if hardly any GTIs have actually been delivered during this period...

[GolfTi]

Only time will tell on this one.

I honestly can't remember how it was with the mk 6 GTI/GTD, but then there was no mk 5 GTD (I think the last GTD was mk2) so who knows. I'm just guestimating on what I've heard and read.

Hopefully I'm totally wrong.

[andykram]

I reckon VW make it up as they go along. My Mk6 was ordered 18th May 2009 with an estimate of 10 weeks. It arrived on a transporter after 6 and my salesman didn't even know it was coming!!!! It just turned up out of the blue!!
Maybe it depends which way the weather is blowing in Wolfsburg but having ordered several VWs over the years (Mk3s, 4s and the 6) any build or delivery estimate they give you isn't worth s***!!!!

[Snoopy]

I agree my mk6 Took over 7 months but original had a 10 week delivery time and just kept been pushed back and back.
Until it has a confirmed build date locked for production a build date is meeningless.

[Gordor]

I've been told today that my GTD will be in the dealers on the 28th August, but "This may be bought forward" 

[GTD Paul]

Mines on track to be built next week and with me by the end of July.  Standard black, 19" wheels and keyless entry with DSG and I was late at ordering......

[Bill_the_Bear]

Mines on track to be built next week and with me by the end of July.  Standard black, 19" wheels and keyless entry with DSG and I was late at ordering......

And this is exactly the kind of order example that blows everything VW have told us (precious little that it is) out of the water.  An order for a GTD with a DSG placed "late" should certainly not be getting built before orders for GTIs placed early with the manual box!  Their statements don't hold water.

Of course pointing this out just leads to the reply of "there are many complex factors"... presumably one of these factors is that the build order should make no sense to anyone whatsoever.

Anyway, genuine congratulations to GTD Paul!  Look forward to hearing how it drives in a month and a half.

[Jon James]

Mines on track to be built next week and with me by the end of July.  Standard black, 19" wheels and keyless entry with DSG and I was late at ordering......

I like your optimism Paul, I'd be very surprised if your or my GTD arrives before 19th August. I ordered on the day the book opened and got the single allocation at the dealer. Having been through all this before I can only pass on my experience.......don't believe the ETA you get until the cars been built.

[Bill_the_Bear]

Mines on track to be built next week and with me by the end of July.  Standard black, 19" wheels and keyless entry with DSG and I was late at ordering......

I like your optimism Paul, I'd be very surprised if your or my GTD arrives before 19th August. I ordered on the day the book opened and got the single allocation at the dealer. Having been through all this before I can only pass on my experience.......don't believe the ETA you get until the cars been built.

Jon, what is your estimate from your dealer?  Would be very interesting to see what a GTD gets estimated at if it is first in a dealer's queue!  Is it a big dealer or a little one?