I'm utterly confused.
Shame nobody can actually tell you quite what you need to buy or even what its exact function will be.... kind of frustrating when you are talking about some sophisticated tech now, not just electric windows or a tow hitch.
That's just it Fred, I think there is so much going on behind the scenes between VWUK and Wolfsburg that possibly there's not much information coming through, and you're dealing with managers that are more used to electric windows and tow hitches that are now having to get to grips with 21st Century technology 'in-cab' and market it along with all the support. I'd imagine it was an expensive upgrade at VWUK level when looking at the telecoms side.
Maybe a change at the top of VW isn't helping matters either, a new leader will have his own business model and we've been riding a bit of a crest of a wave with VW models recently so we just have to hope we don't have a move 'forward' like we did when the mk3 Golf generation hit the ground with all its 'improvements' which just translated into cost cutting.
Somewhere lost in Mademoiselle Booth's huge thread, I contacted our resident forum sales guru evo1986 and he told me exactly what the dealerships know which was pretty non specific but there was no mention of standard nav on the GTI/D and we will basically have to wait until either the dealerships get a new bulletin (now we've just had the last quarter end before the reg change quarter) or someone gets full confirmation of a post BW22 car.
I'm still guessing that the bigger price rise of the GTI/D and Tech Pack price anomalies around the R means that the GTI/D will get standard Nav unless someone at VW has panicked and pulled the plug on that due to unseen issues (cost?) which means we should see a revised pricing structure again or maybe a sales promotion of some kind? But that is literally a guess, it's just "wait and see" right now.
I took quite a keen interest in it as I'd been hedging my bets around the Edition 40 next year and was half tempted to gamble on a late April order this year before the two end of April rises bearing in mind the long build wait, hoping to get a 2016 spec car at early 2015 prices if the ED 40 didn't float my boat. I was offered an 11% discount on an R with a half decent trade in price too with a fully refundable deposit (as they said they'd happily order the car into stock due to the popularity of the model if I changed my mind).
In the eventuality of it all the ED40 really didn't float my boat in ClubSport guise, and the R offer wasn't taken up but I'll update on all that at some point.
