Golf me 8 TCR

[king monkey]

My only reservation is that black alloys don’t seem to fill the arches the same and the Mk8 needs all the help it can get in that respect. Looking forward to seeing these on an actual car though.

[mcmaddy]

New car with what looks like polo r line wheels 

[king monkey]

Right, I’ve done a bit of maths this morning. I’ve been looking at the percentage price difference in Ireland between the various performance Golfs as their pricing has been announced. Their percentage differences between models appear to be roughly double ours. So I’m estimating that the new CS will carry a premium of £2798 ish over the dsg gti. So the CS will weigh in at £37,778. Just my idea. Feel free to disagree!

Couldn’t be bothered working out the R!

[king monkey]

Oh go on then!

R will be £39,877.

[Paul70]

Right, I’ve done a bit of maths this morning. I’ve been looking at the percentage price difference in Ireland between the various performance Golfs as their pricing has been announced. Their percentage differences between models appear to be roughly double ours. So I’m estimating that the new CS will carry a premium of £2798 ish over the dsg gti. So the CS will weigh in at £37,778. Just my idea. Feel free to disagree!

Couldn’t be bothered working out the R!

Thanks for the estimation, hopefully we’ll find out soon! Do the IRL prices include Road Tax? I reckon you are close though, £38k for the CS would be tempting especially if the discount is similar to the std GTI, that would be roughly the same price as I paid for my ED40 4 years ago!

[king monkey]

I’m not sure tbh! One thing I do know is that Ireland pay a lot more for their cars. An R works out at £56k as a straight conversion!!

[JoeGTI]

Irish man here 

Here’s a link below to the Irish product guide and prices for anyone interested.

Clubsport is €52.5k. On a straight deal you might hope to get a ~2k discount on that.
PCP is 1.9% APR with a GFV of about €22k.

Our cars are double taxed  There’s VAT of 21% and then another tax, VRT (vehicle registration tax) of 26% in this car’s case, is applied on top of that again!!

Interestingly, for some reason, the Co2 figure is 1g lower on the CS than the regular GTI. How that’s possible I don’t know but because of this, it’s cheaper to spec 19’s on a CS than on a standard GTI. The 19’s add 3g Co2 which tips the car up to 171g which is into the next VRT / road tax band! Whereas the CS tops out at 170 g.

The R has gone crazy money tbh. I bought an R in 2015 for approx 46k. A new one is the bones of €20k more now 

https://www.volkswagen.ie/idhub/content/dam/onehub_pkw/importers/ie/models/product-guides/2020/2020-11-18/201116_GOLFGTX_MY21.pdf

[Guzzle]

Things I noted from the Irish price list;-

The GTE gets a €5k government grant making it the cheapest option out of all the Performance Golf's, which is the way it should be over here if the government wanted to encourage uptake. It also gets a head-up display and Discover Pro as standard.

The GTi manual is €4k cheaper than the DSG version 

Despite the on going persecution of diesel, the VRT percentage is still quite a bit lower for the GTD than it is for the GTi (annual road tax is about half).

Option prices seem to vary in price between GTi / GTD / GTE, I'm guessing this is something to do with tax / VRT. Textbook example of how to complicate pricing.

The Clubsport 'Racing Package features 19 inch 'Scottsdale' alloy wheels. Anyone seen these yet?

There's a 'Black Styling Package' on the way that omits the coloured strip through the grille.

The standard colour in Ireland is Urano Grey, they have to pay extra for white.

[JoeGTI]

Yes, the aforementioned VRT is applied to factory fitted options too. And the GTD / GTI / R are each in different VRT bands. So the exact same wheels for example are cheaper on a GTD than on a GTI.

The Estoril wheels would be my choice.

Manual to DSG is 4K yeah! Makes the manual car relatively good value if you’re not bothered about DSG.

Pure white always used to be free. Now it’s €215. Another way to screw us I guess.

[Guzzle]

Estoril wheels are my favourites too. Unsurprisingly they're also the most expensive