The Official Golf Mk VI Picture Thread

**Duke996** · 01-06-2010, 07:20 AM

Originally Posted by noowve

Ant, sorry you basically ruin a nice car.. take the rims out.. arggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhh

They look awesome I just think they look a bit too small, 18"'s would have filled it out better.

**Kwoka** · 02-06-2010, 06:41 PM

Picked up my car on Monday and loving every bit of it. Here's a quick picture of it. Will upload some better pictures another day.

**HY001** · 02-06-2010, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by Kwoka

Picked up my car on Monday and loving every bit of it. Here's a quick picture of it. Will upload some better pictures another day.

It's a work of art!

White is definately the best looking colour

**stevie_t** · 02-06-2010, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by HY001

It's a work of art!

White is definately the best looking colour

Agree its hot

**Corey_R** · 02-06-2010, 10:53 PM

*cough*White isn't a colour*cough*

**Karlosovic** · 03-06-2010, 05:51 AM

Originally Posted by coreying

Yeah - and whilst I agree with you, it still doesn't change how much money you actually have to hand over.
Your new car HAS to come with wheels. So regardless of what wheels are on there, if you want to upgrade to a set of 18" wheels, you have 1 option from the factory, which is $1200, or you can go any of the dealer accessories wheels (all over $4k once you add tyres), or the option that you suggested ($5200).

So it doesn't really matter how you want to state the value of the original wheels, $1200 vs $4k or $5k etc is a huge difference. That's all I was pointing out.
And of course no hard feelings

Honestly I have to partly disagree
When i first started researching the new Golf, i read about the Detroit option and at the time wondered how much difference 1" would make.
When I started going to dealerships, I made special care to judge for myself the up-close-and-personal difference between the stock and option wheels - and to cut a long story short, I was blown away
After seeing the difference in person the Detroit wheels immediately became my one and only non-negotiable - and I really haven't changed my mind since. And although I would normally (or previously) have chosen a much different style of rims, nothing else looks very appealing to me on a golf.

Obviously, this all comes down to personal preference, but personally I love the Detroits.

A few other random feelings:
* Rims should only ever be silver/chrome/smoked chrome. There's nothing worse than coloured wheels. (The one exception to this is Honda Integra Type-R in dark blue with white rims)
*corey is definitely correct to say that the real cost of Detroits is $1200. Volkswagen will not remove the price of the denvers in any other circumstance, and for the case of this argument, the cost of buying a Mk VI GTI is a given
*Why on earth are both the wheel options on a classic german car named after U.S cities?
*My loan paperwork should go through tomorrow, in plenty of time for my expected pick-up date of friday week (11 June 2010)
*Someone mentioned colours. Actually many people mentioned colours. Personally I love the MK VI in all the factory colours, although for some reason I'm not quite so taken by the black, and I wonder why they removed blue. That said... when it came right down to it, I think the only other colour I would have seriously considered was candy white.
*I agree that white or silver cars tend to look the least dirty for any given amount of dirt.
*Red cars tend to show up dirt the worst
*It's a weird personal idiosyncrasy, but I just think German cars should be silver

**elephino** · 04-06-2010, 11:36 AM

Just because the rims are mentioned here, I have the Detroits and the ride on those (without ACC) is clearly better than the ride on the MkV with 17". I was surprised as I was expecting it to be about the same.

**Corey_R** · 04-06-2010, 01:27 PM

Originally Posted by Karlosovic

Honestly I have to partly disagree
When i first started researching the new Golf, i read about the Detroit option and at the time wondered how much difference 1" would make.
When I started going to dealerships, I made special care to judge for myself the up-close-and-personal difference between the stock and option wheels - and to cut a long story short, I was blown away
After seeing the difference in person the Detroit wheels immediately became my one and only non-negotiable - and I really haven't changed my mind since. And although I would normally (or previously) have chosen a much different style of rims, nothing else looks very appealing to me on a golf.

Obviously, this all comes down to personal preference, but personally I love the Detroits.

A few other random feelings:
* Rims should only ever be silver/chrome/smoked chrome. There's nothing worse than coloured wheels. (The one exception to this is Honda Integra Type-R in dark blue with white rims)
*corey is definitely correct to say that the real cost of Detroits is $1200. Volkswagen will not remove the price of the denvers in any other circumstance, and for the case of this argument, the cost of buying a Mk VI GTI is a given
*Why on earth are both the wheel options on a classic german car named after U.S cities?
*My loan paperwork should go through tomorrow, in plenty of time for my expected pick-up date of friday week (11 June 2010)
*Someone mentioned colours. Actually many people mentioned colours. Personally I love the MK VI in all the factory colours, although for some reason I'm not quite so taken by the black, and I wonder why they removed blue. That said... when it came right down to it, I think the only other colour I would have seriously considered was candy white.
*I agree that white or silver cars tend to look the least dirty for any given amount of dirt.
*Red cars tend to show up dirt the worst
*It's a weird personal idiosyncrasy, but I just think German cars should be silver

So what was it that you were disagreeing with ? lol