Golf R Reveal

[fredgroves]

That will be including their first year registration tax won't it?

[ar899]

I thought the idea of man maths was to start with the answer you want and work backwards? 😁

[JoeGTI]

Morning,

Courtesy of an Irish member over on VWROC, there is the following attachment on the Irish VW site covering the performance Golfs

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

There are a lot of TBC against a lot of the R options but as it covers the full range of performance golf , hopefully it will be of some interest.

I’m not sure if we can draw any pricing conclusions from the pricelist but front cover does state “effective 1/1/2021 so possibly a while still to wait as well for us in UK

If the on the road price of the Golf R is to be believed from the PDF on the above link, the 65345 euros (on the road price) converts approximately in to £55638.  If the new Golf R in the UK is anywhere near that price, it would be insane.   

You cannot compare Irish prices to what you guys pay in the UK. We are crucified with taxes here, new cars are effectively double-taxed, a vehicle registration tax is applied on top of the car + VAT total.

For some context, for example, the new BMW 128 ti is about 34k in the UK. It’s a shade under 50k euro here.

[JoeGTI]

That will be including their first year registration tax won't it?

It’s VRT - vehicle registration tax. Nothing to do with road tax. It’s quite penal. It’s applied on top of the VAT. In the case of the R, it’s 31%, applied on top again of the pretax price + VAT.

[fredgroves]

So minus the vrt it's £42.47k...sounds about right to me.

[JoeGTI]

So minus the vrt it's £42.47k...sounds about right to me.

The pre tax (VAT and VRT) of the R is about €38K. So you could do a rough estimate of the eventual UK price off that.

[AndyGTI]

So minus the vrt it's £42.47k...sounds about right to me.

Just been playing around with figures and I am getting to a similar level of price.

[Jim_mk7.5]

For those of you excited for the Mk8 R, let's hope it doesn't sound just like the new S3... Go to 1:55 for the soundcheck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou6sfaPS1jk

I mean, the S3 used to sound pretty good stock and that is, quite frankly, absolutely abysmal for a 300+ bhp hot hatch. Think the Akra exhaust is going to be a must-have option for the Mk8 R. Non of the others sound any good either.

[martin dy]

UK Retail price appears to start at  £39270 according to coast to coast cars and they're already offering 10% off
No options listed yet though
R 2.0 TSI 320

[king monkey]

UK Retail price appears to start at  £39270 according to coast to coast cars and they're already offering 10% off
No options listed yet though
R 2.0 TSI 320

That, sir, is a very good spot indeed. Seems to indicate CS and R price.