« Reply #6 on: 16 May 2017, 18:30 »
It almost looks as though VW UK commissioned circa 1000 and the ones that didn't get a customer order were kept to a fairly basic spec and sold off to dealers as showroom cars that subsequently had to be pre-reg'd before April.
Mine was one of those and ended up getting registered in late March. Probably the smaller dealers used them as staff cars and bigger dealers just dumped them on forecourts to make way for incoming facelifted cars.
Mine is numbered in the low 200's yet was one of the later registered cars. There's no obvious pattern to numbering, maybe with the exception of press fleet cars. The VW Driver road test car was 004.
I think with the attitude of a lot of dealers around the 'no discounts due to limited numbers' mixed with the closeness of price to the R which on the face of it offers better value for money (unless you're a die hard GTI enthusiast) equals a very limited take up on cars. Kind of reminds me of the Pirelli editions that sold in low numbers and ended up with many being sat on forecourts for months after the mk6 was released.
It'll be a good time to pick up a ClubSport over the next few months if you're not overly hung up on spec, sales managers will get twitchy with unsold ones sooner of later. They're great drivers cars and no doubt 3 door DSG's with buckets will be a reasonable investment longer term.
It will be intersting to see if there are any higher numbered cars around. Unfortunately a lot of members probably won't be on forums which is a shame.
Full credit to Trev for asking VW UK. Just a shame the email didn't land on someone remotely interested's desk. I guess as a company VW UK just see it as old news now.
I wonder what VW has up its sleeve for this year's Worthersee treffen show special.
« Last Edit: 16 May 2017, 18:32 by Exonian »
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