Was at St.Albans VW today and finally saw the white GTI in the flesh and had a real good look around
Only confirmed how much the white accentuates all the lines of MK7 and particularly the lines of the rear arches which makes car look nice and wide and with lowered suspension give it real presence, that understated intent we all love.
The GTI was dusty from obviously being out on demo but returning to my black Audi you could see how far more noticeable the day to day dirt is seen on the black - The white definitely does a better job of concealing it and think dust serves more to dull the shine than really stand out.
Now comes the controversial part (s) or not really as the camp is split anyway, but the red stripe through the headlights is like Marmite! You love it or you hate it, and now I love Marmite but that red stripe through lights? just looks wrong - I want to like it, overlook it! but simply cannot.
There was a MK6 MY12 CSG GTI there too and I must admit think it looks better as a GTI than the MK7 GTI and mainly due to the damn stripe, I like the double stripe isolated to the grill far more - Lovely looking car that MK6 in CSG
Given the size of chrome exhausts think I do genuinely prefer them side by side also but that is a minor note at best based on personal preference.
One thing did notice on exhausts was how blackened they were to point hardly see chrome! and that surprised me as my present diesel ones are nowhere near that bad just some mild surface blackening. Is that normal on GTI Petrol?
All served to confirm my thinking prior that the GTD loses nothing in styling over the GTI and in fact (it maybe being biased but think am objective) maybe shades it with the Nogaro alloys and due to the removal of red features.
Remember we talking fine details in this forum on this and that and particularly in preference and my overall impression was wow! and has only made the wait even worse
One thing did today with all talk about performance recently on here is remind myself of what my 170BHP has to offer and it was not left wanting at all in general traffic, instant power on tap and with a smile generating surge of acceleration, and on Motorway blew past some traffic from a rolling 60 to 70
without having to drop a gear
My present has enough for me already under the hood so performance is certainly not a concern give there is going to be more BHP and torque in the GTI suit.
