UK Mk VI Golf GTD pricing announced. Quick, clean fun starts at £21,850

If it does come in at $22.5k for the 5 door...it's mine!

 

really? thing looks pretty ugly. and the girls can use a hair cut.

 

Yeah I have to agree with kenchan, I don't like the new look at all.

 

Your true love of a car is some econobox euro hatch? Set your standards a bit higher my friend

 

Yeah it doesn't really stand out that much to me, it looks like one of those cars that blends in too much

About time though somebody put out a performance diesel... well at least in this case a "sporty" diesel.

 

I like it, I wouldn't buy it. I wouldn't buy any VW, in my experience they require way too much maintenance.

 

I've puke in my mouth..

 

Looks tons better than the current one. The current one is just a round ugly Rabbit/Golf with GTI badging and way too much plastic body trim - this one is much more refreshing.

 

i like it, but if i was gonna buy a hot hatch, it would probably be a ms3 or wrx.

 

why does the rear look exactly like thier SUV? the toureg or w/e... the rear looks way too much like an SUV! The front isnt too bad at all but a little too many lines for my liking.

 

...this should probably be moved to the other car section.

 

Reasons why I like it:
1. It's a hatch
2. It gets 40+ mpg (albeit on $$$ diesel, but at current gas prices I would only have to average 35 mpg to equal the Fit's mpg and cost)
3. It's relatively quick (8.1 0-60)
4. It will fit 3 carseats across the backseat
5. It has rear A/C (yeah, I have to think about the fam)

Things I don't like
1. It's a VW

 

mean the electronic problems...

 

i would wait and see if we get the 1.6 liter twin charged/7spd/AWD version of the golf over here.
turbo diesel is good and all, but in comparison it can't hold a candle to it.

 

It seems the Honda crowd sure hates the VW's. On a side note, 258ft-lbs of torque sounds good to me!

 

Doesn't look all that bad, this is to the Toureg as the Fit is to the Odessey.

 

I always find it amusing how the same car has a different image in different countries. Here in the UK, the Golf is seen by many as a premium hatchback, more so than a Civic or Focus. Some other here would rather pay more for a Golf even if it has plastic wheelcovers and black plastic door mirrors just to have a Golf or a VW.

 

Yeah, at first glance of the rear, I thought it was a Tiguan. Looks like the bottom dam came from the W12. They could've made it cleaner. From the pics I don't like it. But that's what I initially said about the Mk5 until I saw them modded. I'd love to have a TDI though. Nice choice

 

If its 21,000 UK/pounds how does that translate into 22,000 USD? Not that bad of a car but seems like it will be priced like all the V dubs I saw while looking for the Fit.....HIGH PRICED! Sure has changed since I bought a nice 66 Bug for $100 in 1979!

 

I would have never considered buying a Fit if I hadn't driven V.W. Rabbits and Pick Ups in the 1980s. I had a 73 1500 cc Rabbit with 4 speed that I did a few performance mods to and had less than $550.00 in that would stomp all over my supercharged Fit.... My 82 Rabbit diesel 5 speed got 55.7 mpg very faithfully..... My 81 diesel truck Would out pull my 302 automatic F150 with the same amount of weight on it big time.... The thing that the VWs had going for them that I miss the most is that they were much more comfortable for a person my size.