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[booba]

Yeah me too... 1st eh? i put my money down on the 2nd Feb ..

Anyway my conditions are AWD, Happy with price. Regardless of finance I can just get out simply with meh too expensive for me.

Booba.

Placed my order this morning. I'll be the 1st in Brisbane to have one .... 18 to 24 months from now.

Std GTI MK6 due in December/January in Australia, R20 due 6 - 12 months later. And the dealer confirmed it will be AWD (4Motion).

The dealer happily took my deposit and conditions.

[Sharkie]

Yeah me too... 1st eh? i put my money down on the 2nd Feb ..

Anyway my conditions are AWD, Happy with price. Regardless of finance I can just get out simply with meh too expensive for me.

Booba.

Which dealer was that with? I'll be pretty pee'd off if they have already started lying to me.... was promised I was their 1st order for it. And this after I had pretty much promised to buy a Tiguan in June as well.

otherwise pretty much the same as my conditions ....

[Lima]

More speculation suggests an official reveal at Frankfurt in September and...















...all-wheel drive.

http://www.ausmotive.com/2009/03/13/...september.html

[Corey_R]

Can't believe there has been no discussion on this in 17 days!

After having my Oettinger/APR MKV GTI written off when a bus rear-ended me, I was all intent on placing an order for the MK6 GTI.... until I saw this.

Now my plan is to wait until it is shown at the show in Frankfurt and then make my decision between this and the GTI. I'm leaning towards the GTI-R except I also saw a news article a few weeks ago which said it might end up being a 'stripped out' version of the GTI focusing light weight....

... so I really want to wait until we know some concrete details

[Zed!]

I think it's a good call to replace the V6 with a 2lT. I do love my R32, but if the R20 is significantly lighter, it will be truely awesome! I'd say that's one of the R32s shortcomings. It's just a bit too heavy and therefore not that quick, especially for 55k. It would struggle to keep up with a standard WRX, let alone the Sti. So I think 200kw and a big of a diet will see it become a direct competitor to the Evo/Sti etc.

[Lima]

Can't believe there has been no discussion on this in 17 days!

Some new rumours/confirmation today!

The range topping GTI will be all-wheel drive, but won't be called the R20.
http://www.ausmotive.com/2009/03/30/...-sign-off.html

No idea what it will be called, but I guess GTI-R or 'R' GTI is the next best guess. Great news that AWD has been confirmed.

[RhysQ]

Great news that AWD has been confirmed.

.....not to forget the 200kW donk!!

[philthy]

Sharkie will be happy

[gerhard]

And some confirmation that they are rumours and the car is not known to VW Aus

http://www.carsales.com.au/news/2009...per-golf-14658

They are painting a muddy picture all right !!

[pinzvidz]

Ah bugger, maybe my thread title needs changing to "AWD MKVI" or "Whatever VW call the R32 replacement..."