I know what you meant Bear, was just trying to persuade Ricepop how much the Golf has come on in just 5 years. It’s hard to believe how bad the MK5 is/was to drive (when shiny, taut and new) next to a MK7 in just 5 years of progress, and at the time I thought the MK5 was amazing (and next to a lot of its competition it was).
It’s difficult to imagine the bitterness will go away when that car is actually in your hands, but once you have it you will forget about the long and ill-informed wait. I was quite a vocal whinger about my wait, considering how quickly my dad got his etc, but looking back, my equity in the p/x opened right up with the wait, I got a newer 63 plate and even got an extra freebie for my troubles (Autoglym – useful for the comprehensive cleaning kit glass treatment and interior treatment). The sh!tty treatment of customers through lack of information or misinformation seems to go right to the top. The dealers only know what they are told by VW UK, yet have to stomach depreciation on fixed price p/x and lack of revenue while they wait on the very thing that gets you to provide them with cash – your car. Are VW UK really that bad, or are they, like the dealers, reliant on poor information from Wolfsburg? I doubt we’ll ever know. We do know that Wolfsburg cock up – they are the ones building cars a few weeks after scheduled build weeks etc.
