Mk7 Golf TSI & TDI - Observations and Questions

[ctan]

Mate, you pretty much hit the nail on the head with the quality. I do think that in many aspects the Mk.7 is a sideways step. It's the perfect phrase to describe the aura and character. There is something missing here I believe, some of the Mk.6's special feeling inside. I agree with the fact that it IS better in almost every single way BUT something, something that you can't put your finger on is wrong.

That's exactly how I felt when I got into one the other day. Something is not quite right but I can't put a finger on it. The MK6 Comfortline was perfect to me in every way the first time I took it for a test drive. There was no second thoughts about buying it. Maybe I'll get used to the new Golf, the interior is just not as refined (imo) as the reviewers have made it out to be.

[Cuthbert]

See below.

[Cuthbert]

Sat in a Highline on Friday and like many of you, I was underwhelmed. I felt the dashboard too blingly esp the piano black and the chrome highlights on the binnacle. In fact I happened to just step out of a 6 year old Astra and felt the dashboard looked better in the understated European way. Emperor's clothes?

Soogs, I was so put off by the blingy piano black dash that I downgraded my order to a 90 TSI Comfortline which has a more understated - and in my opinion - classier dash.

I have had my new Comfortline for a week now and am VERY happy with it. A beautiful car in so many ways. Yet, I would have been happy to pay an extra $4,500 for the Highline, but I just couldn't live with all the black gloss, finger marks and reflections! I do hope VW Australia wakes up to this problem and offers an alternative dash in their Highline model for people who want a more subtle and understated look.

[Golf7]

That's exactly how I felt when I got into one the other day. Something is not quite right but I can't put a finger on it. The MK6 Comfortline was perfect to me in every way the first time I took it for a test drive. There was no second thoughts about buying it. Maybe I'll get used to the new Golf, the interior is just not as refined (imo) as the reviewers have made it out to be.

I think that they're just glossing over it a bit, comparing it to the rubbish offered in the Cruze, Corolla and Focus. Us VW connoisseurs expect something more. I know what you mean, there's just something missing... It all looks very nice and when push comes to shove it IS beautifully made but... I have no idea... Quite lost.

[Arnold]

Um, because I saw the car??? During their spec consultation???

Given the effusiveness with which you have written about your Golf experiences on these pages, it comes as quite a surprise to learn that you were being so coy about having seen a Mark VII GTI in the flesh so far ahead of its expected Australian launch, even if it was LHD, and particularly while you were commenting on the new GTI's specifications.

[Golf7]

Given the effusiveness with which you have written about your Golf experiences on these pages, it comes as quite a surprise to learn that you were being so coy about having seen a Mark VII GTI in the flesh so far ahead of its expected Australian launch, even if it was LHD, and particularly while you were commenting on the new GTI's specifications.

Well-observed! Now what was your point again???

[Arnold]

Well-observed! Now what was your point again???

Being the budding journalist that you are, I was surprised that you did not announce that you had seen the GTI in the flesh sooner and report when and where it occurred.

Instead, you only seemed to mention this titillating fact in passing by way of a rebuke to someone who wondered how you could possibly know the specifications of the GTI 6 months before its release.

But doesn't a "specification consultation" imply that VWA had not finalised the specifications of the car when they held the specification consultation (which I admit I had not heard of before, and certainly not using an imported left hand drive car and involving members of the media who traditionally leak like a sieve but which, apart from you, have kept schtum)?

[MkVIGTI]

I think your right with the DCC and the 19s...

Does that mean the GTI PP will come with DCC standard as well?

[Dutch77]

Does that mean the GTI PP will come with DCC standard as well?

Based on Golf7's nominated pricing on the GTI with the PP being $3k premium I'd say no - you'd get the PP treatment and the 19s only for that $3k, then another $1.5k odd for the DCC. More info in the GTI thread.

[Golf7]

Based on Golf7's nominated pricing on the GTI with the PP being $3k premium I'd say no - you'd get the PP treatment and the 19s only for that $3k, then another $1.5k odd for the DCC. More info in the GTI thread.

To settle this all, the whole point of the event was to ascertain what colours, interior fabrics and non-driving related options and equipment that we wanted...