GTI Edition 50 first press release

[flipflops]

Today I when to my local dealer to enquiry about placing an order, but largely I was there to see if I can charm them into giving me a discount for my 10+ years of doing business with them.

We had a long conversation and I tried to gather information they may have at a dealer level. He told me there have been allocated 8 slots, so 30+ in total as they have a few dealerships. They have sold 1 slot thus far. Only 8 slots will be available for the year, and customers are free to order from factory in whichever spec, but not alcantara wheel. I asked repeatedly, in different ways, surely they will receive more slots down the line, either in the next quarter, when press cars come to the UK or perhaps when they sell all their slots. However, based on what he’s been told by the bosses so far, it’s only 8, with the future being unknown.

Absolutely, not a penny off the list price. On paper, it’s a Golf GTI TRC level time-bound production, i.e., free to order all year round, but at the prices of a limited production Clubsport S. It would have been much better if VW UK made up their mind instead of pussyfooting around and said its 50k with X limited production take it at full price or leave it, no discounts.

Can anyone who has ordered these types of special edition cars before shed some light on their experiences and if this is just the dealer selling strategy? I find it hard to believe dealers across the UK have only been given a limited number of slots of the whole year whilst all the PR press says it will be available for order for the whole 2026.

Current delivery lead time is 3/4 months.

On the off topic, he mention that the Golf R with the 2.5 RS3 engine is in late prototype cycle now, which confirms Autocar’s report earlier this year.

I bought a mk4 r32 new, each dealer was given 7 slots per year for 2 years and they were all allocated. I randomly called one day and they'd been given an extra 2 allocations so I snapped one up. No discount and as none were in the country at that point no test drive either, similar to this.

[miromen]

The 50 can have the sharpest transmission in individual mode...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivoZW3U737M&t=634s


And probably a gift will be present...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAPAK-wSxWQ&t=1328s

[Exonian]

Extra £1000 towards finance deposit in Fantastic Fortnight offer