Other cars with comparable spec to gtd/gti

[JoeGTI]

Peugeot haven't made a good looking car in almost 2 decades. Everything since the 406 (and especially the Coupe) has been beaten with the ugly stick. Plus they've a dubious rep on the reliability stakes and are worth buttons come trade in time. Avoid imo.

The Leon interior is horrendous. Really poor. The Octavia is actually a lot better interior wise.

[Exonian]

How about a Focus? Has anyone mentioned that and I missed it? Is it bad to mention a Focus?
The ST and RS will have decent spec per £££ and big discounts on the former.

I'm never really a Ford fan, particularly the cheap looking slabs of silver plastic on some of their fussy interiors, but Ford are normally quite generous with spec and you can have Mountune fully warranted go faster software. Plus they do nicer colours than VW to make up for the weird styling.

The Civic Type R probably has good spec and it looks totally bonkers. I always smile when I see one. Mad, mad car.

[kalimon]

I love that mental green that you can have on the Focus RS.
VW  need to be offering colours like that on the Golfs.
I would have no problem driving a Focus or Fiesta. Great cars and decently priced.

[gtiaps]

I love that mental green that you can have on the Focus RS.
VW  need to be offering colours like that on the Golfs.
I would have no problem driving a Focus or Fiesta. Great cars and decently priced.

Vw viper green is an option on the scirocco I know it was the 1st one I saw back in 08 when they released the new roc but although a great looking car in green my head thought better of it in the long run and we went for the candy white 

[SRGTD]

I would have no problem driving a Focus or Fiesta. Great cars and decently priced.

Agree Kalimon. I've owned a number of Fords in the past, and they were good cars, only spoiled by some poor dealership experiences.

[mjh_056]

Good call on the Fords, they have improved and though still make too much of a statement of intent for me, do look good, though interior is definitely not me.

But if it was what someone said you had to have, I would be more than happy to accept, but as this is a forum its all about preference if have the choice.

The vauxhall surprised me on lease, even a pretty standard GTC was coming out more than my Golf R.

Last Vauxhall drove was an 1.8 LXi Astra about 6 years ago, drove ok, but that interior  it made Amstrad look classy, and the little rubber sport button would have actually be rejected by Amstrad. Did not consider the Vauxhall GTC at all so cannot comment on their interiors.

But again did look at all the contenders across the brands and it was still the Golf, so only way would have something else is if Golf was not available to me for some reason.

[Poached]

I think the Pug looks reasonable, wouldn't have it over a Golf GTI though.

I'd prefer a Ford over a Vauxhall but I'm not sold on the current ST exterior design.

Not really interested in Vauxhall, VXR is a bit chavvy.

[monkeyhanger]

Not looking to change out of your new Tiguan already are you Chris ?

Not just yet Andrew but I do miss the gtd. Plus with only getting 33-35ish for my work run the fuel bills have gone up quite a bit which I did realise before but I reckon I could be getting 43-45 in a gtd easy.
It does show however what good standard spec the gtd and I come with when nothing else really stacks up. I don't think the Skoda and Seat interiors are that far behind though which makes them an interesting alternative.

I'd rather be in a Skoda Octavia VRS than a Seat Leon FR for interior look and feel, the Seat has the worst VAG interior for me. I slightly prefer the exterior looks of the VRS also.

The 1 series is fugly and nowhere near as well equipped as the Golf, the rear passenger space is poor compared to the Golf also.

I'd Lease a Ford or buy a 2 year old one, they're not worth buying new due to horrendous depreciation (maybe RS excepted, but if fuel costs are high on your list i'd scratch that idea), with a newish Ford you can pretend you're in an Aston Martin if the car in front only sees the front end of your car in their rear view mirror! 

[Daz Auto]

The final decider from me moving from A3 Quattro to the GTD was the standard options that would be paying for on the A3 which enabled me to option DSG and DCC with the savings made.

Time has proven that made the correct choice at the time as the DSG and DCC are something grown to love.

The new 190ps petrol engine in the new facelift A3 quattro S tronic has interesting performance and economy. 0-62 in 6.1 sec, 47.9 mpg combined. That's faster than new GTI club sport performance of 6.3

By the time I added DSG, PP and DCC to the GTI the prices were not that much different. The GTI PP has 40ps more and 0-62 of 6.5 

Edit to add: the slightly heavier A3 Sportback and Saloon are 6.2 sec 0-62.

[monkeyhanger]

Daz: about 0.7s of that audi's 0-62 time will be due to initial traction of the 4wd system which the clubsport doesn't have. Once rolling the clubsport will be markedly quicker. You'll see the same comparing a facelift Audi S3 310ps to the Clubsport S - the S3 will look much quicker 0-62 bur once rolling the Clubsport S will be as quick in the dry.