« Reply #1 on: 25 January 2015, 14:11 »
A nice spec, shame you didn't put park assist on there too as it is cheap and occasionally very useful.
However, begs the question, much as I love the GTI (and it's a pretty faultless bit of design as these things go) why did you do the swap?
The GTD has better residuals, lower running costs, looks just as good, performs as near as dammit as well if you're not into traffic light grand prix at every junction (and to be honest even with PP the GTI tends to spin a lot of its extra power away in the lower gears when careless with the throttle) and with the soundaktor it even sounds much the same from inside.
I can't think of anything aside from the VAQ diff that the GTI offers over the GTD, and that's coming from someone who has GTI in letters written right through them like a stick of rock!
Still, congrats and it's a truly great car to be looking forward to.
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