If the reason you’d buy a GTD over a GTI comes down to savings then I suppose there has to be a threshold at which you’d get the GTI (some do and always will prefer the delivery of the diesel’s power and torque). At £110 a month cheaper all in, I would (and did) pick a GTD over a GTI.
At 10k miles PA, using current prices for fuel (RON95 = 110p/L, Diesel = 117p/L), and assuming both cars do 70% of their official combined figures, the GTI only costs £32 a month more to fuel, add in an extra tenner a month in car tax, and the cost of getting a GTI over a GTD on PCP (accounting for that £2.5 PM PCP difference) and it’ll cost you £45 a month more to run a GTI now. Right now I personally wouldn’t take a private PCP funded GTD over a GTI to save £45 a month. I’d expect the same equity on both cars at p/x now the GTD’s GFV has been adjusted down and there are far more of them on the road than GTIs. I don’t know the ratio of GTDs to GTIs on the road (and this forum probably isn’t a fair indicator either – I’d expect far more GTI owners as a % to be forum enthusiasts than GTD owners), but for what I see locally, I’d say it’s about 8:1 around Tyneside.
Have VW manipulated the GFVs recently purely to give GTI sales a shot in the arm as the R would seem to have been cannibalising the GTI’s would-be sales recently?
I'm getting so sick of waiting for my R, i'm on the edge of cancelling it, getting some decent rubber on it (my Bridgestones are barely legal now) and another DTUK box. if it slips again beyond BW17 (I was expecting BW16 confirmation of Friday just gone) I might just flip a coin - heads I keep the GTD.
