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Offline The Doc

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Re: DSG or Manual
« Reply #20 on: 28 April 2007, 13:45 »
Nice one - don't forget the launch control advantage too!

Here's me in my old R32 doing its stuff in the rain!

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Re: DSG or Manual
« Reply #21 on: 28 April 2007, 16:05 »
Doc you nutter - you didn't have your seat belt on  :grin: :grin: :grin:
Also, I hate seeing anything that reminds me of the Mk5 R32 - I really miss that car but I don't think I could live with the fuel consumption and ridiculous tax band... but I am planning on getting one next year  :wink:  if my investments go as planned. I'll probably be picking up the car next year, but keep the Edition 30 too.
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Re: DSG or Manual
« Reply #22 on: 28 April 2007, 18:58 »
Cool  :wink:

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Re: DSG or Manual
« Reply #24 on: 06 May 2007, 01:14 »
http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/evolongtermtests/208166/vw_golf_r32.html



Thanks for that.. I've driven a DSG R32 for 10 weeks and covered 11,000 miles in that time - yes 11,000 - and although the Evo reviewer Neil has some valid points, I personally was won over to DSG because it suits the R32 brilliantly.  In fact so much so that you'd almost think it was designed for the R32.  I would never buy a manual R32 after that experience.
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Re: DSG or Manual
« Reply #25 on: 06 May 2007, 08:34 »
still no luck shifting the ed 30 illyan, i see youve dropped the price by 3k, no seriuos bidders yet? :huh:

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Re: DSG or Manual
« Reply #26 on: 06 May 2007, 11:25 »
still no luck shifting the ed 30 illyan, i see youve dropped the price by 3k, no seriuos bidders yet? :huh:

Nope, looks like its going to go to the Stealers... I'll still be making enough on the money -hopefully - to make it worthwhile.  Plus I'll end up with a new zero mileage DSG Edition 30 in October. I was going to order another via the stealers but I've got a sneaky suspicion that Edition 30's will be available to order for a while yet. So I will be going down the broker route in July and getting some money off - I went through Broadspeed and was offer over £1000 off a couple of weeks ago but I wasn't ready to order at the time.
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