Out of the Blue this week, a VW Dealership offered me a New stock Golf R Estate , reasonable spec at nearly 20% discount on Retail Price.

Pretty good PX on mine.

So do I want an Estate and a DSG box??? Am I tempted??

If you don't want it, would you care to name the dealer?

 

SWMBO rather wants one.............

 

DC

DC,

I would let you know dealership but not made my mind up yet. Also dealer tells me I have first refusal until Monday. Other people are interested on his list.

Not sure if others are available.

Think they may be stock shifting for VW prior to new reg March. So others may crop up. May be via Pre- Reg discount that's how I bought my Hatch in 2014.

16 Golf R estates at the dealers............

 

95 Golf GTD estates................

 

according to the VW used car locator...........

 

 

mind you with the new Ford Focus RS the thieves might get distracted & leave the R alone..............

 

Wish the GTD estate was available 5 years ago, would of been a good company car. 

 

Instead settled for the 140ps Sportline DSG 

Out of the Blue this week, a VW Dealership offered me a New stock Golf R Estate , reasonable spec at nearly 20% discount on Retail Price.

Pretty good PX on mine.

So do I want an Estate and a DSG box??? Am I tempted??

As they said in the Matrix, could this be the "ONE" for me, going against my principles!

 

http://www.supercar.co.uk/ContentDelivery/VehicleImage.axd?OfficeId=1&DefaultImage=volkswagen&Width=1098&Height=732&VehicleId=605480961&View=1

 

http://www.supercar.co.uk/ContentDelivery/VehicleImage.axd?OfficeId=1&DefaultImage=volkswagen&Width=1098&Height=732&VehicleId=605480961&View=9

Edited 24 January, 201610 yr by vrskeith

As they said in the Matrix, could this be the "ONE" for me, going against my principles!

 

http://www.supercar.co.uk/ContentDelivery/VehicleImage.axd?OfficeId=1&DefaultImage=volkswagen&Width=1098&Height=732&VehicleId=605480961&View=1

 

http://www.supercar.co.uk/ContentDelivery/VehicleImage.axd?OfficeId=1&DefaultImage=volkswagen&Width=1098&Height=732&VehicleId=605480961&View=9

 

So, the same as you've got but estate and DSG? 

So, the same as you've got but estate and DSG? 

Pretty much, except for colour which will be Met Dark Blue, see photos above,(don't see many Hatches or Estates in that) but looks very good in the flesh .imo

 

Also paid £1500 less than I paid for my 3dr Manual Hatch in August 2014.

 

Now have a requirement for more space, business and extended family, so 5dr now very useful'

 

My compromise Manual for DSG - these days I can just about live with that.

Edited 25 January, 201610 yr by vrskeith

Fair shout.

Nice motor.

Prefer DSG myself, but it would depend how long you keep it for. If its a long term keeper i dont think id have a DSG due to the extra complications. If its just for a few years, itd defo be DSG.

Personal views of course (:

Och mon you timorous beastie,

just get out there and try a DSG, where does all this extra complications stuff come from?

You will love them, just like driving a Dodgem. 

Get an extra 2 year warranty at purchase or as the original warranty expires and you are sorted.

 

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Rabbie Burns day in case you wondered.

Haggis Neaps & Tatties for Breakfast, a Dram and some Buckfast.

Och mon you timorous beastie,

just get out there and try a DSG, where does all this extra complications stuff come from?

You will love them, just like driving a Dodgem. 

Get an extra 2 year warranty at purchase or as the original warranty expires and you are sorted.

 

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Rabbie Burns day in case you wondered.

Haggis Neaps & Tatties for Breakfast, a Dram and some Buckfast.

George,

Don't forget I have the DSG 7 speed experience in my old Fabia mk2 vRS and the two that my missus has had.

Due for Haggis and the rest tonight George.

Och mon you timorous beastie,

just get out there and try a DSG, where does all this extra complications stuff come from?

You will love them, just like driving a Dodgem.

Get an extra 2 year warranty at purchase or as the original warranty expires and you are sorted.

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Rabbie Burns day in case you wondered.

Haggis Neaps & Tatties for Breakfast, a Dram and some Buckfast.

Think I might have a dram or two with you George.

I'm starting early today

Keith i was posting to the poster above my post, not you.

Feet for dancing, head for thinking.

 

Latest EVO dropped through the door.

Good one.   2016 #03 '219'.

Focus ST Estate TDCi vs Golf GTD Estate.

Lohen MINI Cooper S

Birds BMW 335d B£x-3.5

AC Schnitzer BMW M4 ACS4

Retro Porsche 

 

etc etc   Must stop drinking, smoking, eating and buying 5 for £5 Magazine Subscriptions with a Free Tool Kit 

and i might get enough to buy a fast Estate car.

Edited 25 January, 201610 yr by GoneOffskiroottoot

Och mon you timorous beastie,

just get out there and try a DSG, where does all this extra complications stuff come from?

You will love them, just like driving a Dodgem.

Get an extra 2 year warranty at purchase or as the original warranty expires and you are sorted.

Extra electrics arent there. Quite a clever system.

All very well if it is under warranty, they're great.

But buying a car as a keeper, im not sure id want DSG 10-15 years down the line when its getting tired amd warranty has long since expired.

Each to their own isnt it (:

Actually i think if you buy a Manual Volkswagen Vehicle now there are as many electrics that might not see you to 15 years of ownership as with a DSG equipped one.

Airbag Sensors and connections for all sorts of sensors and functions, Hill Hold on Manuals and all that jazz.

 

It will be interesting to see how this generation of cars Euro 5 & 6 Emissions last over this decade to the next.

I reckon this is as good as it gets now, and it is downhill from here for cars as keepers as they become even more 'Electric'  

Hybrid Electric, Duel Power, etc.

 

The UK needs lots of young and Trained up Technicians that work with New Technology and Understand Computers and Hardware and Software and even how to use Diagnostics, and then how to make adjustments and settings.

VW Factory Trained Technicians that might not be due to retire for another 20 years can sometimes be in an analogue state of training in a Digital World / Industry.

Edited 25 January, 201610 yr by GoneOffskiroottoot

Golf estate in R spec is only made in DSG version even in Germany..............no option for manual.............

 

Night blue metallic then?.............

Actually i think if you buy a Manual Volkswagen Vehicle now there are as many electrics that might not see you to 15 years of ownership as with a DSG equipped one.

Airbag Sensors and connections for all sorts of sensors and functions, Hill Hold on Manuals and all that jazz.

It will be interesting to see how this generation of cars Euro 5 & 6 Emissions last over this decade to the next.

I reckon this is as good as it gets now, and it is downhill from here for cars as keepers as they become even more 'Electric'

Hybrid Electric, Duel Power, etc.

The UK needs lots of young and Trained up Technicians that work with New Technology and Understand Computers and Hardware and Software and even how to use Diagnostics, and then how to make adjustments and settings.

VW Factory Trained Technicians that might not be due to retire for another 20 years can sometimes be in an analogue state of training in a Digital World / Industry.

Most likely correct there George!

Im hoping the HTP will do alright, seems as it hasnt changed too much since 2002, complications wise. Pretty basic motor really. Dont think its euro 6 though. Maybe thats why its been dropped.

Ill let you know on 10 years .

i guess only time will tell on everything. The R has quite alot going on doesnt it.

Unfortunately its pretty much a throw away society with most things now. Too complicated and not built to last like they once were.

Edited 25 January, 201610 yr by fabiamk2SE

"och you timorous beastie" just made my day!

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So where do we go and what do we buy in these modern times, if everything is too complicated and not built to last...you never owned a British Leyland car that rusted at just a few months old...unless you forgot, now that wasn't built to last!

All I have heard since I started driving back in 1983 was oh do not get that it has fuel injection and its too complicted, ABS this and ECU that ...shall I not move with the times?

All I know is there are fewer cars broken down on the roadside than I can ever remember and I'm not out under the car greasing 20 plus grease points every 1000 miles or adjusting the tappets or setting the points every 5 mins.

There is no such thing as a modern uncomplicated car is there?

Not unless I go back to my trusty Defender 300tdi.

I would go back from that to a 200tdi.

Run it on Veg Oil.

Edited 25 January, 201610 yr by GoneOffskiroottoot

Do like the look of this company, might just poke my nose in there in the summer .

 

Unfortunately unless you speak the language you will need a translator for the finer engineering explanation.

 

I wonder if they have introduced any handling tweaks,brakes etc. for the added uumph.

Might just drop them an e-mail.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVuUhdWey28

 

 

Another German loony! but only Stage 1

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La9jsFkVs9o

Edited 27 January, 201610 yr by vrskeith

Do it Keith. It's not just a bit of oomph either....

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Do it Keith. It's not just a bit of oomph either....

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Yeah Steve, could be interesting in the New Passion Wagon!

 

http://www.supercar.co.uk/ContentDelivery/VehicleImage.axd?OfficeId=1&DefaultImage=volkswagen&Width=1098&Height=732&VehicleId=605480961&View=8

VW are hawking that Cross Coupe GTE Concept again which will need big parking spaces to open the doors.

But i actually like, and it could have been a Seat or Skoda.

 

 Skoda really could do with a 3 Door Hot Hatch / Cross Over avert the attention from the emissions scandal model IMO.

 

I do wish VW would get on with 'the Fix', on cars people own now, 

then reveal cars they are about to launch on the market to buyers, rather than just getting their pet Car Magazines publishing, 

Maybe, Might Be, Could Be sometime if we ever bother type vehicles.

VW are hawking that Cross Coupe GTE Concept again which will need big parking spaces to open the doors.

But i actually like, and it could have been a Seat or Skoda.

 

 Skoda really could do with a 3 Door Hot Hatch / Cross Over avert the attention from the emissions scandal model IMO.

 

I do wish VW would get on with 'the Fix', on cars people own now, 

then reveal cars they are about to launch on the market to buyers, rather than just getting their pet Car Magazines publishing, 

Maybe, Might Be, Could Be sometime if we ever bother type vehicles.

George,

Totally agree with your last paragraph.

R400 is a case in point for me - to late now.

Has your order gone in on an R estate Keith? :-)

Picking up from stock on Monday afternoon Tom. Hence the savings on list I've secured. Car is New not Pre-Reg.