Very shocked at current VW build quality and price

jamief said:
Do they actually all have leather? Do they have RCD510 Satnav, Xenons, parking cameras etc? Did they RRP at £30k?
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Mk4 R32 RRP was about £22k if I remember correctly, mk5 R32 was £24-26k, but now a Golf R (mk6) is £30k!!!! With no options!! ARGH! :mad:

Golf GTI is £24-26k at the moment, and people are buying them!
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
Check this:
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/search/...nav/sort/priceasc/engine-size-cars/3l_to_3-9l

That's 37 Golfs with that have links on Xenons, Satnav and Leather. No I've not sanity checked every single one, but then I don't need to.
You're the person telling us that no one ever buys £30k Golfs. I'm just proving you're wrong.
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37 in the whole of the UK? How many non-leather, non-xenon ones are there?

My original point still stands - people buying Golfs don't (read:99% of the time) spec every possible option and end up with £30k Golfs.

I'd imagine the average price for a Golf Mk6 is £16-17k or thereabouts.

Just because 37 in the whole country have done so, does not mean everyone does.

EDIT: Your link lists only Golf R32s, which we aren't talking about, given that it is equivalent to the Golf R in Mk6 form, which costs ~£38k with every option!
 
£30k would get you a pretty much new 59/10 plate audi s3 with a load of options ticked.

The distinction between vw and audi models has got a little muddled - consider this - the golf r is an s3 without 4wd yet costs more.
 
I doubt I would ever own a VW again, for reason's that don't make much sense to me VW and Audi seem to think that putting the engine in front of the front wheels is a good idea, if you're that big that you need the engine that far forward, then scrap buying a car and put a couple of extra batteries on your mobility scooter, save yourself a fortune. ;)

The front end of my (thankfully very dead now) Passat was so heavy that if you broke hard at speed and had to do it again the brakes would fade into almost nothing because they're having to work so work, the electrics where crap, windscreen wipers had a mind of there own and would regularly stop in the middle of the screen so I'd select a single wipe and they'd keep going for about a minute and then stop in a slightly different spot in the middle of the screen, then the windows would sometimes have one touch close and open sometimes not, is this German build quality!!! and dealer services where just as bad as the car I took in, after 2 hours labour to be told 'we suspect a faulty earth, we'll need the car for longer to chase the wiring, at which point I collected the key's and took the car to a mechanic instead of the Ex 3 star McDonalds monkey that had been staring at my car for 2 hours wondering where to put the fries instead of finding said faulty earth :rolleyes:

and as for that new Golf advert it sounds like a golf' doors made of iron? 'it handles like a golf' see badly and 'it's got double over head cam, like a golf' steady on the new tech speak VW, some of your demographic might not understand. :rolleyes:

I wouldn't pay £3K for a car that flawed!! but if I could market a turd a sell it for £30k damn right I would so can't blame VAG, and after all with out people spending that sort of money on mediocre, we wouldn't have such cars as the new breed of Lambo's or the Veyron, so it's not all bad a big hand for sponsoring the VAG group fan boys

Just my bitter opinion obviously!!
 
We bought an 09 Passat Estate roughly 2 months ago now, and while we love the car, there is a definite difference in build quality between that and our old Audi A3. The Audi felt far more 'solid' in every way, the Passat feels like an egg box, big, but too much air between two bits of metal...if that makes sense?

I think we'll probably change to the Audi A6 next.
 
ok i'm a fan boy but from personal experience vw golfs are bullet proof. i've had 2No mk2 and 1No mk4, all of which had over 100k, all of which felt better than a lot of other more modern cars did at 10k.

these £30k golf specs will sell to the rep boys like hot cakes
 
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