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Offline Watts

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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #120 on: 21 October 2020, 11:40 »
Autocar allrounder of the year - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/britains-best-all-rounder-car-2020-volkswagen-golf-gti

I think anyone buying one will be lucky to get it this year....
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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #121 on: 21 October 2020, 12:56 »
Definitely not going to get one this year. I think evo confirmed that when I said about it being the 2021 golf gti...
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Offline mike roberts

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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #122 on: 21 October 2020, 13:06 »
Timingwise, yes. However 2021 is common nomenclature, so it's not the reason why.

For example my XC40 arriving in Dec is known as the '21 car.
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Offline ar899

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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #123 on: 21 October 2020, 16:54 »
Timingwise, yes. However 2021 is common nomenclature, so it's not the reason why.

For example my XC40 arriving in Dec is known as the '21 car.

Are you swapping your GTI for an XC40?

Offline mike roberts

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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #124 on: 21 October 2020, 17:53 »
No, the XC40 is the family whip. Replacing the current XC40 - they're just brilliant!
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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #125 on: 21 October 2020, 18:08 »
Autocar allrounder of the year - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/britains-best-all-rounder-car-2020-volkswagen-golf-gti

I think anyone buying one will be lucky to get it this year....

aren't they now starting to hit the UK showrooms (in dribs and drabs) though? or does that mean they will only be demonstrators for a while?
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Offline AndyGTI

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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #126 on: 21 October 2020, 19:06 »
Yes they are hitting showrooms now(demonstrators/showroom), so there are bound to be customer cars out there before Christmas....its just that if you want a certain spec and you order now, its likely to be into 2021 before delivery.

That grey GTI that has just arrived is the showroom car for VW Cheltenham if I read the post correctly.

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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #127 on: 21 October 2020, 19:13 »
Unless dealers have already placed orders for "stock" i can't see how anyone would get one delivered before Christmas. I don't think performance golf's are ordered as stock normally. The only thing you get quickly is where they sell off demo cars (not likely yet) or manage to reassign a cancelled order in the system (again, not yet).

On the other thread someone already said they had ordered and are quoted fourteen weeks, which is end of January.
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Offline AndyGTI

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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #128 on: 21 October 2020, 19:43 »
Unless dealers have already placed orders for "stock" i can't see how anyone would get one delivered before Christmas. I don't think performance golf's are ordered as stock normally. The only thing you get quickly is where they sell off demo cars (not likely yet) or manage to reassign a cancelled order in the system (again, not yet).

On the other thread someone already said they had ordered and are quoted fourteen weeks, which is end of January.

I can't believe there won't be stock of mk8 GTIs available between now and Christmas. I noticed the person on the other thread had been quoted 14 weeks, but we don't know if that is a standard car or with options.

I also recall my conversation with a certain VW Dealer when I wanted a GTI, "oh no sir VW don't have stock they will all be build to order"...........So when he called me a week later to ask if I had decided, he was shocked when I told him I had spoken to another dealer and my new car would be available in a week.

(I had gone to the another dealer, who said right " we have 14 cars available in UK, what colour would you like")

When I got my Golf R it was at Emden but had not been allocated to any dealer at that stage. So I think they generally try and keep a level of stock.

I know its a new car, but they have started to build them so there must be stock slowly coming into the system.




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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #129 on: 21 October 2020, 19:58 »
Unless dealers have already placed orders for "stock" i can't see how anyone would get one delivered before Christmas. I don't think performance golf's are ordered as stock normally. The only thing you get quickly is where they sell off demo cars (not likely yet) or manage to reassign a cancelled order in the system (again, not yet).

On the other thread someone already said they had ordered and are quoted fourteen weeks, which is end of January.

Agree Fred; it’s unlikely that anyone will take delivery of a mk8 GTI until next year; in my experience, very few performance VW’s are built for dealership stock - most are built to order.

As for demonstrators being put up for sale, I seem to remember reading that dealers have to run their demonstrators for a minimum time period ( think it’s three months) before they sell them on. If so, then if a dealer has a mk8 GTI on their demonstrator fleet in the next week or so, it won’t be disposed of until towards the end of Jan at the earliest. 
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