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Offline am1w

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Re: Colour Choice
« Reply #40 on: 02 February 2015, 16:04 »
Oh this perennial nugget of colour choice. I will comment on the available colours for the Golf R.

Generally the colours on offer are pants and bore the pants off me. I basically don't like any of them, and because of this I decided on Tornado Red which costs me nothing. VW could take a leaf out of BMW's book where a few metallic colours are no cost options especially for their halo models.

There is a huge range of colours available for German buyers, so why are some of these not available in the UK? It is an annoying lapse by VW to short change us in this way.

Golf R: Great car, bloody awful colour choice.
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Offline andrewparker

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Re: Colour Choice
« Reply #41 on: 02 February 2015, 16:23 »
I sort of agree, but it is very common these days, regardless of the manufacturer. When I was considering an M135i I think it was only available in 6 colours. Would be nice if they had an extended palette of colours like the BMW Individual or Audi Exclusive, and it's quite annoying that if you buy in Germany you can have a huge number of colours.
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Re: Colour Choice
« Reply #42 on: 02 February 2015, 16:28 »
It makes no sense on the colour front - you want to standardise your production line as much as possible, not have specials for any particular market.

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Re: Colour Choice
« Reply #43 on: 02 February 2015, 16:35 »
Mk6 GTI Colours available in Germany.

1. Candy White
2. Black
3. Reflex Silver Metallic
4. Carbon Steel Grey Metallic
5. Tornado Red
6. Shadow Blue Metallic
7. United Grey Metallic
8. Blue Graphite Pearl
9. Deep Black Pearl
10. Blue
11. Blue Spirit Pearl
12. Dark Violet Pearl
13. Deep Blue Pearl
14. Ink blue Pearl
15. Light Blue
16. Mercato Blue Metallic
17. Moonlight Blue Pearl
18. Ravenna Blue Metallic
19. Silverblue Metallic
20. Techno Blue Pearl
21. Ultramarin Blue
22. Violet Touch Pearl
23. Brush Yellow
24. Platinum Grey Metallic
25. Silver Grey Metallic
26. Urban Grey Metallic
27. Tin Grey Metallic
28. Bright Green Pearl
29. Cosmic Green Metallic
30. Mint Green
31. Racing Green
32. Reseda Green
33. Cola Red 2000
34. Dark Burgandy Pearl
35. Flash Red
36. Yellow
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Offline dereks

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Re: Colour Choice
« Reply #44 on: 02 February 2015, 16:40 »
all the non-uk colours look a bit naff to me :undecided:
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Re: Colour Choice
« Reply #45 on: 02 February 2015, 16:58 »
I dunno, it would be nice to have a choice really.... all the cars on the UK roads are fifty shades of grey/silver/black.... some colour would be nice.

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Re: Colour Choice
« Reply #46 on: 02 February 2015, 17:03 »
Worth mentioning that those colours are non-standard colours and come at a hefty premium (1740-2170 Euros). If you think VW are taking the piss charging £540 for the routine metallic paint options, you'll not want to shell out for the others.
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Offline Mr Savage

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Re: Colour Choice
« Reply #47 on: 02 February 2015, 17:04 »
To be fair looking at those 30 odd colours I think the UK have the best ones...
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Re: Colour Choice
« Reply #48 on: 02 February 2015, 17:07 »
"Audi exclusive" colours are 2025 quid... I guess thats the same thing - only they have far more colours to choose from, most of which are just more shades of grey lol
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Re: Colour Choice
« Reply #49 on: 02 February 2015, 17:17 »
The VW dealer in Aberdeen has what appears to be a full UK spec Mk6 GTI in yellow (an otherwise unobtainable colour) so there must be some way to sway VW UK to have been ordered in the first place...

https://www.facebook.com/specialistcarsvw/posts/952934468057618

Dark violet pearl would be nice to see in real life as would a VW equivalent to Audi Panther Black Crystal

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