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Offline mcmaddy

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Re: GTI Mk8 - Would you wait?
« Reply #60 on: 21 September 2018, 19:46 »
When I ordered my gtd back in 2013 it was ordered on bank holiday Monday at beginning of April but didn't arrive until the 26th September so nearly 6 months.
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Re: GTI Mk8 - Would you wait?
« Reply #61 on: 23 September 2018, 11:42 »
My mk7 GTI was ordered about a week after the books opened in early April and it arrived late October 2013.

It would have to be a pretty fantastic car for me to wait that long again.
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Re: GTI Mk8 - Would you wait?
« Reply #62 on: 20 October 2018, 08:39 »
Is this spy shot of the new Mk8 for real? I was hoping for more of a revolution than evolution at the front with a more imposing front grill like the Arteon.

https://www.carscoops.com/2018/10/2020-volkswagen-golf-mk8-really-someone-trying-fool-us/
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Re: GTI Mk8 - Would you wait?
« Reply #63 on: 20 October 2018, 09:13 »
Quote from: trueblue_ips on 20 October 2018, 08:39
Is this spy shot of the new Mk8 for real? I was hoping for more of a revolution than evolution at the front with a more imposing front grill like the Arteon.

https://www.carscoops.com/2018/10/2020-volkswagen-golf-mk8-really-someone-trying-fool-us/


Historically, VW’s approach to design has been evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Whether or not that is a spy shot of an actual mk8, I think you can bank on the mk8 Golf being immediately recognisable as a Golf.

IMO, VW wouldn’t want to alienate the core of loyal Golf owners with a radically different design for the mk8.
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Re: GTI Mk8 - Would you wait?
« Reply #64 on: 21 October 2018, 13:30 »
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Re: GTI Mk8 - Would you wait?
« Reply #65 on: 21 October 2018, 15:05 »
Quote from: Guzzle on 21 October 2018, 13:30
Are these the Mk8 taillights?

https://uk.motor1.com/news/272666/vw-next-gen-golfs-taillights-tease/

Your guess is as good as anyone else’s. If they follow the same design styling as the T-Roc’s rear lights, then the they might be.
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Re: GTI Mk8 - Would you wait?
« Reply #66 on: 21 October 2018, 15:23 »
Quote from: trueblue_ips on 20 October 2018, 08:39
Is this spy shot of the new Mk8 for real? I was hoping for more of a revolution than evolution at the front with a more imposing front grill like the Arteon.

https://www.carscoops.com/2018/10/2020-volkswagen-golf-mk8-really-someone-trying-fool-us/


I quickly looked at that link the other day and thought it a bit odd with Honda Civic bumper grilles on a mk7 Golf.
It’s (very likely) obviously a mule of some kind.

Then today I saw an Arteon being parked up and I noticed the shape of the bumper grilles and realised that minus the shiny piano black trim fins they’re not massively dissimilar to that photo.

It’s quite possibly this car is a mk7 testing the mk8 running gear underneath (similar MQB platform) so the bumper could be a cut and shut mock up testing airflow or cooling.

The Arteon is a surpringly handsome car in the flesh incidentally. I wasn’t over impressed with photos of it but in the flesh it’s pretty special for a production VW.
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Re: GTI Mk8 - Would you wait?
« Reply #67 on: 30 October 2018, 21:50 »
Quote from: trueblue_ips on 20 October 2018, 08:39
Is this spy shot of the new Mk8 for real? I was hoping for more of a revolution than evolution at the front with a more imposing front grill like the Arteon.

https://www.carscoops.com/2018/10/2020-volkswagen-golf-mk8-really-someone-trying-fool-us/


The article concludes these pictures are most likely fake. Doesn't look real at all to be honest.

And anyone hoping for a revolution for the Mk8 will probably be disappointed. It's a Golf. It will be an improved version of the Mk7/7.5 in the same way that new 3 Series is. The likes of BMW and VW can't risk their most popular selling models not been well received by the current owners.
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Re: GTI Mk8 - Would you wait?
« Reply #68 on: 30 October 2018, 22:13 »
The golf is an evolution. Always has been, always will be. Lord, I can remember the comments when the mk5.5, sorry Mk6, came out.  :whistle:

Vw, generally, have got it spot on with the golf so why change it? I think the golf has a classic, recognisable shape. People who don’t know cars will know it.
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