GTI Edition 50 first press release

[Legally Binding]

Boys and girls, the alcantara steering wheel is on the UK menu now...

I would like to think I had a significantly contribution on this decision by VW UK by repeatedly contacting VW customer service and telling them to log a formal request to the VW UK Product Team. Repeatedly

Many thanks to all the posters, your insight and knowledge is very useful

[Watts]

Boys and girls, the alcantara steering wheel is on the UK menu now...

I would like to think I had a significantly contribution on this decision by VW UK by repeatedly contacting VW customer service and telling them to log a formal request to the VW UK Product Team. Repeatedly

Many thanks to all the posters, your insight and knowledge is very useful

Well done Had another play on the configurator, coming out at near £55k now. Think I'll be sticking with the CS for a while...

[CookieMonsterGTi]

Boys and girls, the alcantara steering wheel is on the UK menu now...

I would like to think I had a significantly contribution on this decision by VW UK by repeatedly contacting VW customer service and telling them to log a formal request to the VW UK Product Team. Repeatedly

Many thanks to all the posters, your insight and knowledge is very useful

Got to say, looks good. If I cave in and go for a ED50 this will be a box ticked. 

[king monkey]

Well, this is rather exciting!! Spoke to my dealer but seems unable to add it to the order atm.

[Kgti8]

Alcantara wheel on the Irish configurator now also.

[The WolfMan]

For those who prefer the Vienna leather seats I think that the leather steering wheel fits better. What do you think?

But for the standard seats, the alcantara wheel is awesome.

[JoeGTI]

For those who prefer the Vienna leather seats I think that the leather steering wheel fits better. What do you think?

But for the standard seats, the alcantara wheel is awesome.

You’d be mad to spec the leather. It’s the same leather you can spec in any GTI. And not particularly nice looking nor great quality. The cloth seats are unique to the 50. The only plus with leather is you also get the electric/memory function but you pay a handsome premium for it.