MK7 GTI Facelift

[fredgroves]

Red is the most expensive colour to insure because of the Post Office vans being red.

Insurance is all about statistically measuring risk. Tons of very badly driven Post Office vehicles skew red massively.

I can tell you all about badly driven Post Office vehicles because I used to be a MT workshop manager for the Post Office....

[Wide]

I have another problem!, what color will i order?!

-white silver metallic
-dark iron blue metallic
-atlantic blue metallic.

I had decided on Reflex Silver. For some reason that option vanished last week

I believe that Dark Iron blue is being called Issac blue in the UK.

Atlantic blue looks really nice in the flesh. Not sure how it looks with with the GTI's red lines.

From the videos I have watched - white silver looks like white primer grey.

  Yes i am affraid that whitesilver looks like primer grey..

[JoeGTI]

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I don't recall ever being asked "what colour is the car?" when shopping for car insurance quotes...

Any time I see a red GTI or R I always tend to admire it but when it's come to purchasing one, red has never been on my radar for whatever reason. Maybe next time...

That indium grey does look very smart, finally a decent looking grey in the Golf range comparable to Audi's Daytona grey. Limestone grey is way too beige for my liking.

[Daz Auto]

It is a myth that red cars are more expensive to insure.

Though statistically red cars may appear more expensive to insure

There may be 2 factors which contribute to this statistical anomaly.

"http://www.4autoinsurancequote.com/uncategorized/is-insurance-higher-on-red-cars/"

"While red cars do not cost more to insure just because they are red, one could argue that there is a correlation. The target market for red sports cars is usually young male drivers. We all know that young male drivers are in one of the highest risk auto insurance brackets (because they statistically get in more accidents and more traffic violations). This combination of young man plus red car equals high insurance rates (but again, it’s NOT because of the color red)."


http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/auto-insurance/car-color-affect-your-insurance-rate.htm

"Where does the myth come from? After all, there's no smoke without fire, right? Well, it comes down to numbers. Sports cars are going to cost you more in insurance rates because they tend to be driven faster and have a higher likelihood of getting into an accident. But when your average car shopper picks out a sports car, which color do you think they go for more often than not? If you said red, then you should consider a job in the stats business! So, the fact that there are more red sports cars out there, along with the tendency for sports cars to get higher insurance rates, leads people to believe that it's the color rather than the car that's jacking up their rate [source: Insurance Tree]."

[Daz Auto]

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I don't recall ever being asked "what colour is the car?" when shopping for car insurance quotes...

Any time I see a red GTI or R I always tend to admire it but when it's come to purchasing one, red has never been on my radar for whatever reason. Maybe next time...

That indium grey does look very smart, finally a decent looking grey in the Golf range comparable to Audi's Daytona grey. Limestone grey is way too beige for my liking.

Yeah, insurance is based mainly on the driver, location and car performance. Colour is not a factor.

Some people consider green cars to be dangerous as they are the same colour as hedges = camouflaged and hard to see in certain conditions. Same could be said for brown in the winter.

I think Indium will look fantastic, but I don't want a car that is the same colour as the road. Every time I see one I will be jealous.

I agree with the comments on silver cars and fog. This also applied to white. Especially as some people forget to switch on their fog lights!

[JamesR27]

The whole car colour in day or light, did not really occur to me until I bought my carbon grey GTi after having Reflex Silver on my mk6. I realised that in winter I never really seem to see my car much in the light. So when I return to my car, instead of seeing the silver showing, the carbon grey gets lost in the dark which is a bit disappointing as it is a nice colour.

So certainly for me I am a bigger fan of the light colour cars.

[I wanted a GTi]

A friend on mine has a midnight blue Bora. His sister-in-law reversed into it, my brother reversed into it, I nearly reversed into it! That colour is dam near invisible at night.

Do Specsavers do a family and friend pack?

[Daz Auto]

A friend on mine has a midnight blue Bora. His sister-in-law reversed into it, my brother reversed into it, I nearly reversed into it! That colour is dam near invisible at night.

Do Specsavers do a family and friend pack?

That's what I said to my brother, "should have gone to specsavers!"

[ajmoir36]

Grills and wheels on the mk5

[gazmondo35]

 Still can't make my mind up whether it's an improvement on the old model or not ,if I could retro fit those rear lights on the mk7  I would be happy .

 Here is a more in-depth look at the new mark 7.5

https://youtu.be/kRtsRiOnPzs