I test drove both. Ended up buying the GTI. RS is great value but I didn't find the handling that crash hot, ugly for my tastes and the interior fit and finish is quite a bit behind the golf. A lot of car for the money though.
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Heh, 3:59pm, too early for you to be drinking, something must have tickled your funny boneOriginally Posted by brad
Really poor dealer service was serious and correct however
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I test drove both. Ended up buying the GTI. RS is great value but I didn't find the handling that crash hot, ugly for my tastes and the interior fit and finish is quite a bit behind the golf. A lot of car for the money though.
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There weren't any around in the spec I wanted (black pack and either of the cool wheel options) and there was a huge waiting time so I didn't get too into considering it.
Now a year later with more stock around I'd be all over it.
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I'll say it one more (a third) time:
A longer car (eg Octavia) will fit in fewer unmarked, typically on-street, parking spaces than a shorter car (eg Golf).
Minimum standards for parking spaces or the length of Camrys are beside the point; if there is only 4500mm between the two cars, you cannot park an Octavia and this is an issue in a city where parking spaces are often unmarked and at a premium. By definition there will be more such parking options the shorter the car.
I drove the RS on Friday and it was okay. Roared like a GTI and drove fine. The standard seats did not offer the bolstering or support of the GTI's I did not think and I felt the interior must not have been of the same standard as the GTI either. Hard to say but I presume there has to have been some cost cutting.
While the Octavia's boot was cavernous, the car was too long for my needs.
Once Walter de Silva restores the Golf8's boot to its expected length, order will be restored and I will acquire another Golf. The only compact current model cars I have looked at so far that have the boot length of the Mark V / VI Golf are:
B200 (more)
GLA (similar)
Q3 (more)
Tiguan (more)
308 (similar)
SUVs, including those above, gain too much length and for that and/or weight reasons I am not really interested in a Wagon or an SUV if I can avoid it so not looking at CRV / X-Trail / Golf Wagon etc which means the 308 is the only hatch that comes close to offering the space efficiency of the Mark V and Mark VI Golfs...until the Golf8 is released with any luck as I'd be reluctant to buy a Peugeot, good cars though they may be (enjoyed a 307 wagon in Europe for a month some years back).
But for now, In Golf we trust.
Last edited by Arnold; 16-06-2015 at 12:17 AM.
If the answer to the Monty Hall problem was 50/50, the contestant, on average, would win the car 50% of the time simply by sticking with their original guess...but you can only win a one-in-three guessing game 33.33% of the time so it can't be 50/50, can it?
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If parallel parking is such a big concern for you, you might want to look at the Polo GTI(around 4000mm), or even Smart fortwo(around 2700mm)!
Sorry I just couldn't help it.
I understand how it can be very frustrating finding a parallel parking space in the City(for Sydney at least). I mean if you have to do this very often, and you are so concern about that 0.3m extra length, you shouldn't even put the vRS on your list, this is why people are getting a tad frustrated on your comments regarding parking.
Last edited by sillyboy; 16-06-2015 at 11:28 AM.
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I can't say I've ever heard of someone who places such a high priority on a exterior length. I can confidently say the length of the car and parking would have zero influence on my decision to buy one over the other. Storage space internally, price, build quality, performance. That's it.
The difference in length between a Golf and Octavia might make a difference in 1 in 50 parallel parking scenarios. I also can't recall ever having an issue with the length of a car space in a shopping centre. Some are narrow but none have ever been so short that a mid size car like an Octavia wouldn't fit.
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Jimi, please don't encourage the OP. Golf is the way to go.
To think I drove Commodores all those years & never realised how big they were.
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No one expressed frustration, Silly Boy, just misunderstanding, as evidenced by comments that referred to supposed degree of difficulty parking a longer car when I was referring to availability of spaces which where I live would improve by a lot more than one in 50 with a 381mm reduction in car length.
And it was also about boot capacity...
Last edited by Arnold; 18-06-2015 at 09:38 PM.
If the answer to the Monty Hall problem was 50/50, the contestant, on average, would win the car 50% of the time simply by sticking with their original guess...but you can only win a one-in-three guessing game 33.33% of the time so it can't be 50/50, can it?
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Good for you. But I, like many other people, prefer smaller, lighter cars to larger, heavier cars. Pretty widespread sentiment and a significant factor for many people around the world choosing light small cars such as Golfs and Polos, that are neither longer nor heavier than necessary to meet their needs, with greater availability of parking spaces being but one of the benefits of shorter cars.
Even in the Golf I find myself sizing up whether I can fit in a space, something I might not even contemplate in a car such as the Octavia that is, a considerable, 381mm longer, as such spaces would be simply be out of the question.
Car length is not a complicated concept or an unusual, let alone unique, consideration when buying a car, I do not think, and it ruled out cars such as the Mazda6 before we acquired the Golf.
If the answer to the Monty Hall problem was 50/50, the contestant, on average, would win the car 50% of the time simply by sticking with their original guess...but you can only win a one-in-three guessing game 33.33% of the time so it can't be 50/50, can it?
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