New Car - MK7 Golf GTD

Barry Smalley said:
Of course it's financed as you would have had half your brain removed if you were going to spend £27K cash on a Golf. He said he likes buying new cars and spent what he could afford on one that he liked and what he got is by no means a ****ter. If he did have £27K in cash lying about it its blatantly obvious that he'd have used it as a deposit on a new M5. ;)
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Looks like there were pushing PCP recently on this model too.

http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/about-us/news/532
 
Some of you need to back off to be honest.

His money, his choice, cash or finance it's his business.

Stunning car!
 
Chris344 said:
Some of you need to back off to be honest.

His money, his choice, cash or finance it's his business.

Stunning car!
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You must be new round here. This is the norm.
OP posts car, discussion regarding said car ensues.
 
I like it, would definitely be near the top of my list if I was buying new and needed diesel motoring, standard spec seems top notch and the new Golf seems to have had nothing but praise all round.

commited said:
So so close to m135i money :(
http://www.broker4cars.co.uk/bmw/1series.htm
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The GTD is similarly cheaper via a broker so really in a like for like purchase it's not really that close.
 
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Barry Smalley said:
Yeah, and I'm also struggling to see the link between your suggestion of a 520D and what he's bought.
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I didn't say he should buy a 520D, I said that it was what I'd get if I had that budget and was looking for a diesel. This is because I prefer larger saloons and think that a nearly new 520D would offer better value for money.

He replied that he prefers small cars and wanted to buy new, which is fair enough - judging by the amount of new golfs and a3s I see around he's clearly not alone.

Not really that hard to understand is it?
 
Yeah that is what you'd get. He is a different person and suggesting what you might have got is irrelevant especially when its a completely different class of car. If you'd suggested anything else in the same class it might of a least been a sensible reply.
 
Its a nice car OP, and the price is not as mental as some here are saying in my opinion...its a quality car from a premium car maker, that will depreciate far less than similarly priced vauxhalls (a mate just bought an Astra GTC VXR for the same £27k) or Fords.

Ignore the naysayers and enjoy your car.
 
Barry Smalley said:
Yeah that is what you'd get. He is a different person and suggesting what you might have got is irrelevant especially when its a completely different class of car. If you'd suggested anything else in the same class it might of a least been a sensible reply.
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I don't think it's irrelevant at all - regardless of what class the car is, the fact that it's £26.5k means that it's up against cars in a higher class. Turns out he prefers small cars to saloons and if he's got the money to spend then I guess he may as well get arguably the best small car out there.

I think it was a perfectly sensible reply and he provided a sensible answer. I'm not criticising his choice, I'm merely interested as to why he chose that particular car, which is perfectly reasonable surely?
 
Barry Smalley said:
Fairly obvious I would have thought, given he's just spent £27K on one?

Therefore 520D = irrelevant.
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Not really. He could have got a Golf because he preferred the way it drove, because he got a good finance rate, because his family have always had VWs, because he'd had a large saloon before and wanted something different or because his mate has one - there are loads of hypothetical reasons why he may have chosen that model: all reasons why people buy cars every day.

I think you've misunderstood what I originally said: I said that I would have chosen a 520D if I wanted a premium diesel, not that he SHOULD have.
 
"andy" said:
same as with fox's focus RS comment im guessing OP is not one of the many motors posters who hoon around public roads like they are a racetrack and like many of the general public bases his opinion of cars on their looks rather than on BHP and track times.

all of his shortlist has that aggressive sporty hatchback look to them
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Op has specified one of, if not the hardest, driver focused hatchback cars going, and then slapped a GTD in the same shortlist. Apologies for not understanding.
 
Someone at work just bought a spanking brand new Astra VXR for less than that!

I think your car looks smart but those wheels will look awful after 60,000 miles due to white worm issues. The mirror finish on the wheels looks smart but they just lacquer over the top, which stones chip and water gets underneath.
My Focus wheels looked hideous at 70,000 miles and I had to get a full refurb to make them look good again, even though they had never touched a kerb in their life!
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=g...urce=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=Ztc-UpOLGOuT0QWch4HIBQ (top left pic).

I hope you enjoy your purchase, but you are going to need to keep it for a fair few years to get value out of it!

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...af/advert-type/standard-listing?logcode=ucnnp
Then spank the rest on fuel.
 
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geekman said:
Not really. He could have got a Golf because he preferred the way it drove, because he got a good finance rate, because his family have always had VWs, because he'd had a large saloon before and wanted something different or because his mate has one - there are loads of hypothetical reasons why he may have chosen that model: all reasons why people buy cars every day.

I think you've misunderstood what I originally said: I said that I would have chosen a 520D if I wanted a premium diesel, not that he SHOULD have.
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Considering a Golf and a 5 series are two completely different cars, does it really matter what you'd have spent your money on?
Unless you need your head looking at you don't buy a car for sentimental reasons when you are spending this sort of money. You buy it because you have done your homework and it ticks the right boxes.
What I don't understand is why you are telling him what you would have bought because both cars are like chalk and cheese. In the similar way that I would have spent £27K on a tractor and muckspreader - it is completely irrelevant.

Anyway, I'll leave the thread there and let the OP enjoy his car.
 
Like the look of these, but I'm of the view of always buying used. A lot of cash for a hatch with that kind of performance as others have said.
 
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