« Reply #46 on: 24 August 2013, 13:17 »
I'm wondering on the price of the R in the UK.
The mk6 R was a slow seller due mostly to price as it needed quite a few options to make it up to an expected spec of a flagship car. It wouldn't fall into many people's company car ranges and not many private buyers would stump up £35k for a shopping car with a VW badge.
But looking quickly at the Cabrio to compare, the R cabrio was £38k plus but has been dropped down to about £33k and as the GTI cab is about £4k dearer than the tintop GTI it leads me to speculate about £30k for a tintop R mk7 in 3 door manual flavour???
That would just about keep it competitive with the M135i as the BM has more power but the R will throw the 4wd card onto the table plus supposedly cheaper running costs.
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