Mk7 Golf R Discussion Thread

[Dutch77]

I think you will find that the majority of VW owners do not actually care to upgrade their wheels.
The problem with using the forums as a reference point is that you get an echo chamber.

Likely 50% of people on here have aftermarket wheels.
Once you go outside into the real world you see maybe 2% of VW's on aftermarket wheels if that.

I agree the majority don't, but I think GTI/R buyers do. The Mk6 is a great reference - I would say at least a third/half of GTIs I see have Detroits over Denvers, and I see roughly the same ratio of Rs running 19 inch Talladegas.

I still suspect if the Pretorias were offered as a $500 option over Cadiz there'd be at least a third take up if not more (and that's giving VW a fat margin, if it was per Germany and only $150 that take up could be over half).

There is a swing, particularly on Euros, to OEM plus these days. If I could have got Pretorias at a decent price then I'd have put them on my car (aftermarket admittedly, I'm not asking for an R wheel to be optionable on a GTI).

[team_v]

I agree the majority don't, but I think GTI/R buyers do. The Mk6 is a great reference - I would say at least a third/half of GTIs I see have Detroits over Denvers, and I see roughly the same ratio of Rs running 19 inch Talladegas.

I still suspect if the Pretorias were offered as a $500 option over Cadiz there'd be at least a third take up if not more (and that's giving VW a fat margin, if it was per Germany and only $150 that take up could be over half).

There is a swing, particularly on Euros, to OEM plus these days. If I could have got Pretorias at a decent price then I'd have put them on my car (aftermarket admittedly, I'm not asking for an R wheel to be optionable on a GTI).

Bear in mind that the majority of the cars with upsized oem rims were likely ordered in by the dealership and bought off the lot so the customer/driver would have had little say in what wheels they got.

VW Aus has to cater to what the market wants and i can guarantee you most customers won't see the point in upgrading to 19" Pretorias even if they were given the chance.