I was told that too. A few weeks ago, Joe knight (my dealer) actually emailed me with an update of week 47, a few hours later he emailed again to say it’d moved to week 43.
It’s been at week 44 now for a while so he’s hopeful for an end of October/early November delivery

I’m interested to know, did you all test drive a mk8 Clubsport/standard GTI or just go for the 45 based on your passed golf experience?
I personally just took the plunge, I had a mk7.5 GTD company car for 3 years that I loved and needed to get something on order as I’d requested to switch from company car to cash allowance scheme at work. My only other thought was to remain on company car and choose a GTE.