The £50k Golf - and it's a Mk7.5...

[barrym381]

My local dealer up in Durham had an R fully loaded similar to the one on the OP. £47k list price was on sale at £33950 last time I looked. It's a demo so some miles are going on but still it's a big reduction.

I’ve seen the way staff in dealerships treat demo cars never mind any customers that’s had them 

What have you seen?

they don't care about them lets just say that and nor do the customers taking them for test drives or every technician in the branch on lunch duty 

[Exonian]

In my opinion the car would look a lot better with black Pretorias. I was never a fan of black alloys but they seem to suit the mk7/7.5 well.

Black wheels just scream Nova/Corsa guy on finance 

Geoff, it’s not 1998 anymore! 


Mind you, I have black wheels and a black roof - dread to think what that says about me!! 

[mcmaddy]

My local dealer up in Durham had an R fully loaded similar to the one on the OP. £47k list price was on sale at £33950 last time I looked. It's a demo so some miles are going on but still it's a big reduction.

I’ve seen the way staff in dealerships treat demo cars never mind any customers that’s had them 

What have you seen?

they don't care about them lets just say that and nor do the customers taking them for test drives or every technician in the branch on lunch duty 

this one was the sales managers demo and I think no one else was allowed to use it. They wouldn't even allow customers out to drive it without someone bring in with them.

[barrym381]

I can imagine there will be a few that treat the car as if it's a personal car but in 27 years I've seen some shocking things

[Snoopy]

In my opinion the car would look a lot better with black Pretorias. I was never a fan of black alloys but they seem to suit the mk7/7.5 well.

Black wheels just scream Nova/Corsa guy on finance 

Geoff, it’s not 1998 anymore! 

Mind you, I have black wheels and a black roof - dread to think what that says about me!! 

I know    Maybe midlife 
Im on some of the mk6 and mk7 facebook pages and the teenagers / start of their 20s who would have had a corsa years ago are now on finance and have GTI/R instead all you read is bagging threads and black wheel threads. 

[Crockers]

For that money you can get a BMW M340i. Straight 6 x drive.

[Jim_mk7.5]

For that money you can get a BMW M340i. Straight 6 x drive.

There are a lot of options at £50k that make a Golf at that price seem completely absurd.

[kmpowell]

For that money you can get a BMW M340i. Straight 6 x drive.

There are a lot of options at £50k that make a Golf at that price seem completely absurd.

But what if the person just wants a Golf? I really don't understand this price v product argument, its meaningless as price is a value put on it by a person and if a person wants one thing then offering an alternative is irrelevant.

My ex had a cheap Golf lease deal. There were cheaper and better specced cars available for the money with double clutch or ZF boxes, better spec etc, but all she wanted was a 5 door manual Golf, so that's what she got.

Granted if there were two red Golf R's similar spec and one was cheaper, I understand why it would be absurd to buy the more expensive one (but again, if money was no object that argument falters slightly), but that's apples v apples, not apples v oranges.

[Jim_mk7.5]

For that money you can get a BMW M340i. Straight 6 x drive.

There are a lot of options at £50k that make a Golf at that price seem completely absurd.

But what if the person just wants a Golf? I really don't understand this price v product argument, its meaningless as price is a value put on it by a person and if a person wants one thing then offering an alternative is irrelevant.

My ex had a cheap Golf lease deal. There were cheaper and better specced cars available for the money with double clutch or ZF boxes, better spec etc, but all she wanted was a 5 door manual Golf, so that's what she got.

Granted if there were two red Golf R's similar spec and one was cheaper, I understand why it would be absurd to buy the more expensive one (but again, if money was no object that argument falters slightly), but that's apples v apples, not apples v oranges.

But I guess as much as your ex missus wanted a Golf, would she have got an 'expensive' Golf lease deal? Everyone wants to get a good deal or drive something they thought they might not be able to drive.

The Golf, no matter what model or how many toys have been chucked at it, isn't a £50k car. No-one would think it is so doesn't matter how loaded the person is, the price is an issue. You want a new/almost new Golf R, you get one for £35-£40k. If you are spending £50k, you either want more performance or a more premium car. Plus the new one is on the horizon and the current one, when all said and done, is an older generation car. IMO.

[kmpowell]

But I guess as much as your ex missus wanted a Golf, would she have got an 'expensive' Golf lease deal? Everyone wants to get a good deal or drive something they thought they might not be able to drive.

She could have had a 5dr DSG 'R' or one of those cheap M135i deals that were doing the rounds, both for £20-£30 more per month. Or a Lean 5Dr manual (with equivalent engine) for £30-40 a month less. Both no brainers in my book when comparing... but she wanted a manual, 5 door petrol Golf, so that's what she got. It was cheap on paper, but compared to the market it was avg/expensive.

The Golf, no matter what model or how many toys have been chucked at it, isn't a £50k car. No-one would think it is so doesn't matter how loaded the person is, the price is an issue. You want a new/almost new Golf R, you get one for £35-£40k. If you are spending £50k, you either want more performance or a more premium car.

To you maybe, but to others probably not. Your own subjectiveness doesn't make the Golf not worth £50k, because it's exactly that, subjective. Ones person's attitude to money is different to the next persons. Exclusive paint on an Audi will cost you £2500-£3000, and some view that as madness, but plenty of people pay it.

As mentioned in this thread, a red fully loaded Golf R is a very rare thing, so if you were a cash buyer looking for something like that, you have found your car. True, the audience for that car is smaller, but there is an audience, that's my point.