Mk7 Golf R Discussion Thread

[Rocket36]

IMO you have to be an audiophile. I can't tell the difference at the volume I listen to audio at. Plus music is background to me and I sometimes even prefer to drive with it off.

[bxpressiv]

Surprisingly the wife said if I think we can afford it then I should get what car I want. Test driving an R tomorrow, the sensible option is the GTI but at no point I time would I ever get the R and say is wish I'd got the other.

[Kachingg]

I have test driven the gti and r back to back at the phillip island vw experiance and the r is better much better the only reason to get a gti is if you cant afford a r imo

[WallySimmonds]

Yeah, I've been looking into the GTI to keep costs down, but I I don't think I could do the povo pack version, and when you start speccing them up they're pretty close to the R in base form....and at that point, why not just get the R?

Which is obviously what VW want you do to. I think the pricing team have done their job fairly well.

[bxpressiv]

they're pretty close

I guess close is subjective.

[Dutch77]

I guess close is subjective.

Agreed.

There's still approx $7,500 between them (regardless of discounts) so while I'd stretch, I can see why for many that would be a jump too far. We're talking $50-60k cars here, not $200k.

[WallySimmonds]

My point is that a fully specc'd GTI is around 50k right? And if you bargained hard, I reckon you could probably get a Grid DSG R with no options for low 50's. So...it comes down to what you want really, and out of those two, I'd go a Grid with no options.

In saying that, I do get what you guys are saying - a couple of years ago I would have never even considered spending much on a car (I was stretching it to spend 35k for my Highline).

[bxpressiv]

Ahhh fair enough, I wasn't thinking Grid.

[Dutch77]

Ahhh fair enough, I wasn't thinking Grid.

Ditto - I can’t see someone considering a de-specced R over a fully loaded GTI. That’s two different buyer types.. if you’re happy minus the toys then the margin is more like $10k and that’s a pretty large sum in this bracket.

IMO of course.

[SteveMc]

My point is that a fully specc'd GTI is around 50k right? And if you bargained hard, I reckon you could probably get a Grid DSG R with no options for low 50's. So...it comes down to what you want really, and out of those two, I'd go a Grid with no options.

In saying that, I do get what you guys are saying - a couple of years ago I would have never even considered spending much on a car (I was stretching it to spend 35k for my Highline).

I gotta hand it to the guys/gals who can just get the base car without the fluffy extras and have no regrets. Excepting the DSG, I think lane assist, fancy dampers, blind-spot monitors, bigger displays, moving headlights, etc, are things I really should've been able to do without. And as much bloody noise as you all remember me making over the Great Dynaudio Delete Debacle of 2017, I've become pretty happy with the Poverty-Pack sound now, and sometimes struggle to appreciate the different damping settings for the majority of my inter-urban driving.

I will look at Grid-Rs when they drive past and think "well done" - You could've got a "loaded" GTI, but resisted.