Impressive performance.....
With no knowledge what so ever on the subject im guessing you'll need to be doing pretty high annual mileage to justify the cost of a GTE over a GTI..?
Has someone worked out the mileage difference needed to account for the extra cost..?
Ken
That'll depend massively on the depreciation of these (on a new car depreciation dwarves fuel differences), and how many miles you can and will do on electric power alone. Can't get a GFV figure for the GTE right now, the VW UK website seems a little screwy for GTE right now. Hopefully it'll be around the 50% mark (is that 50% of £33k or 50% of £28k after subsidy?)
If you can get 80% of your miles done on electricity only, running it like a 100ps milk float then you're going to notice the difference when you start filling up every 2 months instead of every week. If you normally get clobbereed by the London congestion charge then one of these can make a lot of sense (i'm assuming these would be exempt).
On a long journey where the electric power pales into insignificance, this will likely be almost as thirsty as a GTI as it is lugging around extra weight of the electrical components).
