Talk some sense into me...

[mcmaddy]

I'll probably be the only person on here to say that you don't need a Trevor to make the gtd a better driving car. It's great in standard form.

[Mark V GTD]

Need more info really...

When you say they have 'dropped the price by 5k" is that 5k off full retail?
The GTD is late 2014 - how many miles?
When was your GTI registered?
Will you need to put money in to do this?
How much lower are the monthlies (if you are buying that way)
What options are you going to have to learn to live without if you take the GTD?

[fredgroves]

Perhaps this song might convince you to stick with the GTI:

Ode to the GTi by Sir Cliff Richard
Words adapted by am1w

Cliff Richard? I should think that's a nail in the coffin for the GTI...

Get a GTD, GTD owners hate Cliff

[monkeyhanger]

Andy, you've got that itch again. Control it if you can, dear bean.
BTW what is a Trevor?

It's a DTUK tuning box for the GTD, "Trevor" was the code name Andy from DTUK used when allowing me to trial the new box. It transformed the GTD, but very subtle about it - loads more torque and power, but done in a very tidy and linear way (unlike another box I tried), it was epic, and now my dad is reaping the benefits. 

[Mr Savage]

Sorry Exonian but you must have lost the plot.

Don't change your GTI for a GTD it makes no logical sense at all. I can understand the people who changed to the R (even though they took a massive hit in the pocket) I can understand people who changed for a BMW M135I or Audi S3.

GTD owners were all complaining about their MPG and combined with diesel being more expensive per litre than petrol it's a bit of a false economy.

You're losing the limited slip diff, higher revving, better sounding, faster car for a little bit of better economy and paying for it.

Don't do it.

[Stuartr1024768]

Have to agree with the GTI owners on this (sorry GTD guys), only reason I could see to do this would be if you have all of a sudden switched to doing 30k+ miles a year ! I've just hit 16k in 6 months of ownership and get an indicated 52-53mpg long term (with a Trevor) so probably more like 50mpg (which I'm happy with considering the grunt !). If I were under 20k a year I would give my right arm for a GTI PP or R !

[mcmaddy]

Sorry Exonian but you must have lost the plot.

Don't change your GTI for a GTD it makes no logical sense at all. I can understand the people who changed to the R (even though they took a massive hit in the pocket) I can understand people who changed for a BMW M135I or Audi S3.

GTD owners were all complaining about their MPG and combined with diesel being more expensive per litre than petrol it's a bit of a false economy.

You're losing the limited slip diff, higher revving, better sounding, faster car for a little bit of better economy and paying for it.

Don't do it.

How can it be false economy when you get nearly 20 miles per gallon more from a gtd than you do from a gti. I don't remember gtd people complaining about mpg's other than it didn't get what was claimed from vw but neither does the gti oh and the gti isn't any faster in real terms over the gtd. I've only done 10k in my gtd since September 13 and the only issue I've got is the size of the boot 

[ffrank]

How can it be false economy when you get nearly 20 miles per gallon more from a gtd than you do from a gti. I don't remember gtd people complaining about mpg's other than it didn't get what was claimed from vw but neither does the gti oh and the gti isn't any faster in real terms over the gtd. I've only done 10k in my gtd since September 13 and the only issue I've got is the size of the boot 

Agreed, I'm very happy with my since new mpg of 48mpg (8000 miles of mixed driving and plenty of welly). I've probably saved around £400 on fuel on that mileage.

I still don't think it's crazy to move from a GTI to a GTD, needs and desires change. There's a few on here who have gone from high performance petrol's to GTD's quite happily.

[monkeyhanger]

You should always consider depreciation in there too. For the whole package, the GTI was going to cost me more than £110 a month on average over 3 years than having a GTD, with only 11k miles PA.

Some would be happy to forego that extra money for marginally better performance, but in that case i'd rather have the R as the better residuals more than cover the extra fuelling costs over a GTI, and go some way into eating into the extra purchase cost - with a bigger performance gap between it and the GTI than the GTI has over the GTD.

[Mark V GTD]

Exonian - where are you?