Mk7 end of life age poll

[dean5125]

I'm just coming out of that stupid V8, A C63 the proper 6.2 one without the turbos.

The C63 is one car I've always ached for.... for no other reason than that fabulous noise but 160 miles between petrol stops!!! I don't think I could live with that!!

Its normally £75 to fill up and the range is around 230 miles, its normally around 50 miles left on the range when the dreaded amber light comes on. It averages around 20mpg

20mpg isn't too bad..... IF you can get that average!
My average during the week in the GTI because of a short, busy commute.... around 14-15mpg!! What would that equate to in a C63?

I came out of a W204 C63 coupe in to my first Mk7 GTI and on what sounds like a similar commute to yours (1.5 miles and anything up to an hour) my current TCR manages 13-15 mpg.  The C63 was 6-7mpg...

An hour to do 1.5 miles, half walking speed? I'd rather walk or bike it, unless it was lashing it down. Central London?

I don't know how I always end up defending my choice to drive when yes walking or cycling would probably be quicker (1 mile and as an average takes me 25-30 minutes at best!) but I'm a car guy and I work hard for what I have so I am going to use it, even if I agree it makes no sense in the real world!

….and yes the economy isn't great during the week but I've seen upper 40's on a run at the weekend with the missus and nipper on board..... back down to 15mpg if I'm on my own!! But doesn't that sum up performance golfs perfectly, everything to everyone.... the absolute allrounder!!

btw... really good OP!!

[monkeyhanger]

It would frustrate the hell out me to be going that slow and be overtaken by a pedestrian doing double my speed! 

It takes 15 mins to do the middle 2 miles of my 13 mile commute due to a bottleneck and that boils my piss. I don't think I could drive your commute and not be pissed off when I arrive at work.

[dean5125]

It would frustrate the hell out me to be going that slow and be overtaken by a pedestrian doing double my speed! 

It takes 15 mins to do the middle 2 miles of my 13 mile commute due to a bottleneck and that boils my piss. I don't think I could drive your commute and not be pissed off when I arrive at work.

Work pisses me off anyway so it doesn't really matter if I arrive there in that state!!!

the stupid part is the rest of the commute (well 0.8 miles! ) is fine it's just our industrial estate sites some 100-150 businesses and 1 way in 1 way out.... you can imagine what 5pm is like!!!

[Hertsman]

I’m prepared to bet most owners in the new or nearly new category are repeat customers, some indeed serial repeaters.

This is almost certainly true amongst the regulars on here.

Thing is, for the 7 years of its production, the Mk7 was really the class leader. It was had to find a better car in its size and one which had such low depreciation. VW utterly smashed it, I'd go as far as to say it had the same impact as the Mk1 did when it launched.

I ordered my second Mk7 GTD virtually the same as my first. Ok, it was a Mk7.5 vs a Mk7 but that didn't actually matter to me much - if the timing had been different, I'd have been happy with another Mk7. As it turned out, the 7.5 was better, but I'd not have noticed without having one.

Anyway, the poll was really more to see what the audience was here now rather than anything else but the discussion has already become interesting in ways I never anticipated when I started this thread.

I do really enjoy this forum!

Looked over the fence seriously at the new competition at each changeover but in the end, the competition, though improved could not beat out the whole package the MK 7 of the time -

[ar899]

Interesting.... its almost 50% of folks saying they are over the 3 year mark so far.

As someone looking to buy another car this year and its not going to be a Mk8 simply because it doesn't fit with my timings, I wonder if everyone else looks at the market segment and just thinks "there really isn't a true Golf GTI alternative" - well not without either compromise or more money to spend.

Again, it speaks volumes to just how well VW nailed this.

Agree 100% Fred - there isn't anything out there that hits the mark. My problem is the exhaust on the Performance is just too noisy for me, hence haven't pulled the trigger (I know very few of you will agree with that, but that's just me and it's my cash  ). Have been looking to buy new but am now seeing if I can pick up a late 230hp.

I've looked at pretty much every alternative - A Class, 1 Series, A3, V40, Leon ST, Focus and (perish the thought) even small SUVs like XC40, Q2, T-Roc, Evoque. Keep coming back to the Golf.....

[Philip]

An hour to do 1.5 miles, half walking speed? I'd rather walk or bike it, unless it was lashing it down. Central London?

If I didn't need to use the car during the day then I would walk / cycle / public transport but unfortunately it's not practical to do so.  Besides, the cars a nice place to be, comfy seats, good music, just stick on the ACC and let it get on with it 

[fredgroves]

An hour to do 1.5 miles, half walking speed? I'd rather walk or bike it, unless it was lashing it down. Central London?

If I didn't need to use the car during the day then I would walk / cycle / public transport but unfortunately it's not practical to do so.  Besides, the cars a nice place to be, comfy seats, good music, just stick on the ACC and let it get on with it 

Have you thought about changing your hours? Go in earlier, leave later in the evening or the same but rerversed?

In most cases that fixes that stupidity.

[Adam T7]

GTI is now 13 months old and covered about 5.5k. Work from home so my commute  is about 45 seconds.
It’s a fantastic car, driven mostly for pleasure so I guess I’m lucky.
Nothing else really interests me and as I’ve always bought from new and kept a long time (last car, Discovery 4 was nearly 9 years old when we parted company) plan is to keep the GTI for a long time. Hybrids and anything without an internal combustion engine do nothing for me, soulless, about as interesting as buying a washing machine (but then again, I’m not in my first flush of youth)

[dean5125]

An hour to do 1.5 miles, half walking speed? I'd rather walk or bike it, unless it was lashing it down. Central London?

If I didn't need to use the car during the day then I would walk / cycle / public transport but unfortunately it's not practical to do so.  Besides, the cars a nice place to be, comfy seats, good music, just stick on the ACC and let it get on with it 

Have you thought about changing your hours? Go in earlier, leave later in the evening or the same but rerversed?

In most cases that fixes that stupidity.

Unfortunately some of us live in the real world where your employer sets your hours...… plus in my case I have to be there during the hours that our production team work because they can't tie there own shoelaces most of the time!

Plus as Philip said, it's not like it's an unpleasant place to sit!

[fredgroves]

Unfortunately some of us live in the real world where your employer sets your hours...… plus in my case I have to be there during the hours that our production team work because they can't tie there own shoelaces most of the time!

I'd have thought that as someone driving a C63 you would be fairly high up the food chain and able to make decisions.

Either that or you live a cardboard box under a railway arch just to own a C63 ;-)

Have you thought about walking/cycling to work and when you need to go out for work, walking/cycling back to your car (aka "home") and driving from there?