« Reply #400 on: 06 May 2015, 15:37 »
Welcome Alx, and thanks for taking the time to post up the list.
Your list matches the info on a lot of the brokers sites so they must use the same source. Normally these are quite accurate, but I have a suspicion theres something going on at VW UK and it sure isn't clarity or the right hand knowing what the left is up to.
I've been around VW's for far too long and there's definitely something up. VW have just put a £135 price rise across the whole Golf range. That's the inflationary.
There's no way that they would then just chuck on random amounts of extra price rises to the GTI/D and R. There's no way the basic Gen II is worth £920 or £670 depending on which Sport Golf you pick. Then there's no justification for the £600 price difference in the Tech Pack between the models. There simply has to be a big spec change cloaked in there that VW haven't informed their web department or more importantly their dealers and leasing companies about.
The mk7 GTI launch was a mess and reading the forums the Polo GTI launch and spec seems a similar mess. VW UK have issues and the mere fact people are flocking to buy Volkswagens at the moment papers over the cracks. I guess Joe Average or his gran who walk into the showroom are blissfully unaware of the shambles going on and it's only a small minority of customers here on the forum who are a bit more clued up who are well aware of how sh!te VW UK can be and how embarrassing it must be for dealers to have to try to deal with clued up customers rather than ones they can just fob off. My local dealer don't even return calls they're that busy.
So, the best way to get to the bottom of it is to wait for things to settle down once VW's arse knows what its elbow is doing or get on social media and quote all the price and spec disparities and give VW UK hell on a level that will reach higher management in their ivory towers, or better still draw a bit of attention to VW UK from the Fatherland as we must be one of their biggest export markets and the exchange rate means they do rather well out of us.
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‘26 Ed50, ‘23 Leccy Mini, ‘25 8.5R, ‘23 8R, ‘20 8CS, ‘19 135iX, ‘19 TCR, ‘17 Ed40, ‘17 GTD, ‘15 7R, ‘13 GTI PP, ‘11 GTI, ‘09 GTI, ‘98 Ibiza Cupra, ‘05 GTI, ‘06 Polo GTI, ‘04 GT TDI, ‘05 Fabia vRS, ‘02 GTI T, ‘03 Ibiza TDI 130, ‘01 Leon 180, ‘89 mk2 16v, ‘99 Ibiza TDI, ‘96 VR6, ‘98 Ibiza TDI, ‘92 VR6, ‘88 mk2 8v, ‘92 Polo G40, ‘91 mk2 8v, ‘89 mk2 8v, 205 GTI 1.9, ‘83 mk1 GTI, ‘80 Scirocco GTI, plus some others I’ve forgotten
