GTI Edition 50 first press release

[king monkey]

Interesting. Like the idea of the plate even if it is a bit of a UK afterthought. Who told you this?

[Garwen]

Email off dealer today saying the performance pack will be an extra £800 for the semi slick tyres
 Said I don’t want the tyres anyway
 Can not order the performance pack with out them
 Answer you want to loose a sale in excess of 55k over a set of tyres. Fine by me
 Will be on the telephone to Vw uk in the morning
That puts the performance pack at £4500

[Watts]

Email off dealer today saying the performance pack will be an extra £800 for the semi slick tyres
 Said I don’t want the tyres anyway
 Can not order the performance pack with out them
 Answer you want to loose a sale in excess of 55k over a set of tyres. Fine by me
 Will be on the telephone to Vw uk in the morning
That puts the performance pack at £4500

I've checked the configurator and £3675 includes the tyres. I think the confusion lies as you can order the tyres seperately for which the cost is £880.

[Garwen]

I also told him this and he replied no
I am not happy with the salesman anyway as the one we dealt with originally has retired and have dealt with him for over 35 years
 But apparently he is the new specialist on the edition 50 but has no clue about the car just a Vw salesman
The other one was even invited to the launch
 How can they know more than any enthusiast lol

[Paul70]

Interesting. Like the idea of the plate even if it is a bit of a UK afterthought. Who told you this?

My dealer

[Garwen]

Mine is only telling me lies at the moment

[Dav3smith]

Mine is only telling me lies at the moment

Take your business elsewhere and put a nice Email together to VW head of sales and CC in both dealerships explaining the reason for your change.

[Paul70]

Mine is only telling me lies at the moment

So apart from having to pay for the tyres, what else do you think they have been lying about if you don’t mind sharing.

Based on your earlier post, you must have one of the first build slots. Are you OK to share your provisional build date Garwen? I order on Friday 16th and mine is 28.05.2026

[CrunchtheApple78]

What I’m amazed at is you’re all getting build dates immediately after ordering. I ordered my CS on 5th December and still have no build date! I spoke to the dealer only yesterday and I couldn’t get them to understand my confusion on this. They just thought I was moaning and wanting the car earlier than the initial April date!

[SRGTD]

What I’m amazed at is you’re all getting build dates immediately after ordering. I ordered my CS on 5th December and still have no build date! I spoke to the dealer only yesterday and I couldn’t get them to understand my confusion on this. They just thought I was moaning and wanting the car earlier than the initial April date!

But are they actual confirmed build dates? VW didn't used to confirm a car’s build date until around a month before it was scheduled for production.