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Picked up the gtd the other day, so far impressed, deffinately an upgrade on the focus, quieter, better built and way more tech..
@theo2017 – Awesome, still waiting on a delivery for ours, been told its in a port I think in Belgium, they had originally said end of Jan but I always thought that was going to be ambitious, In the past 15yrs I have never heard of any new car ever being delivered on time. Last car I bought that was actually delivered on time was an 2005 Hyundai Coupe which I ordered and then picked up 2 weeks later, why because there was no options, a choice of about 4 colours and 3 engines and that was it so they literally just had them in stock rather than being built to order.
I don’t think I would get a golf now as they are not good value, the Tiguan R-line looks a better bet which I did consider but 148bhp on a vehicle of that size and weight.. Too much money is being spent on electric vehicles that nobody wants and ICE vehicles are not progressing..
We have just been getting updates by way of short video emails from the sales guy at the dealer, maybe because its a bit sooner, we have not chased at all as really don’t mind when it arrives.. I like the dolphin grey but the other half wanted something different so went for the lime yellow, I got to pick the car, she got to pick the colour, it was a must that we had the winter pack as it helps with the disability we also had to pay a bit as the car was ordered with the upgraded wheels but the car seems pretty loaded anyway. If I was buying the car for long term keep I would spec the DCC suspension but given our last car has done like 20k miles in 4yrs really didn’t think it was worth it, maybe the uprated speakers would be good but again as we don’t do that many miles its not worth it.
I think there is a refresh coming to the Golf soon with a bigger screen (Which I think looks hideous even if it might be slightly more practical) and I think slightly thinner lights but I think you would struggle to tell the difference, anyway if its build week is 8 add another 4-5 weeks for delivery so hopefully you should get it by end of March sort of time, not really too long..
Glad we ordered as now for the same price all you can get is the Style, makes the Golf very bad value for money at the moment..
Ours was a pre ordered car, was built last week awaiting ttansport to UK delivery hopefully end Jan start of Feb..
@coruro – I don’t think ours was a mobility order cancelled, they are correct in that you cannot place a new order but if there is one that has been built or in the system to be built then you can order it.. Well at least we were able to, the salesman we were dealing with was very knowledgeable and even talked the other salesman from the other garage through the system and what to do. It does seem from missingsounds experience that maybe it does depend who you get, maybe we were just extremely lucky.
I have only had a rental Golf GTI many years ago, the GTD was the only thing on the scheme that floated my boat, I just like having the extra power as we do multiple journeys down to barnstaple and that north devon link road can be a nightmare so its nice to have something that can quickly overtake if needed..
@MissingSound 7 – If you want a new GTD there are still some out there, you just need a salesperson willing to search the country stock for them and give the sale to another garage which I know is hard for them. Hence my reason for updating this post so at least hopefully others can go in armed with information that might help them get the car they want..
@Glos Guy, According to the sales person they put through the application and all approved by motability.. I was sceptical too but at least at the moment everything has all been approved, like I say there are around 100 GTD’s in the country apparently that are either physical cars or to be built very soon..
We were told that the reason the GTD and GTE are on the scheme is likely that there will be a refresh (Although I have seen pictures and you you would struggle to tell them apart at least from the outside), going forward all engines will be at least mild hybrid so they are trying to clear out the stock…
We had the 182bhp 1.5 bhp focus st-line X which we really like and the only thing on the scheme which suited us was another focus but they now only do the 1.0 150bhp so would feel like a downgrade and is basically the same time or the Golf R-line but when you consider the GTD is not that much more the R-line would seem like a let down..
To be fair cars have drastically gone up in price where as the motability allowance has not so its no surprise that what you can get on the scheme is not as good as in previous years. the GTD we spec’d which is still basic it just has a couple of options is just short of £40k. VW are also doing a deal that you get £750 off so even though the GTD says its £2799 with the £750 off its actually £2049, motability will pay for the metallic paint, we had to get the winter pack for the heated seats as they really help and the car we found had the uprated alloys.
I just thought I would update this thread as I thought there was no hope after reading this, I think you do need a very good sales persons that actually knows the system, there was a car elsewhere first and we spoke to that sales person to try and get it but he said there was none in the country, that car had literally just sold as it turned out when we went back to our very good sales person and he found another one that we pounced on straight away..
Basically if you want a GTD you are going to have to be very quick and have a good VW sales person but it is possible, well at least so far, I will update this is anything changes..
Sorry I know this post is now a little bit old but I came across it doing some research and have info that might be useful to others.
So the GTD is not on the motability site but is on the VW site, we went into a VW dealership yesterday and managed to get an amazing salesman, you cannot order a new GTD however there are about 100 GTD’s that you can have either on order or currently physical cars, the sales person searched the country and found us a car that matched what we wanted.. We were willing to travel to get the car but luckily the car was being built next week and was part of a chain of other dealers one of which was not too far away so the salesman called the other dealership (Not same chain) and talked the salesman through there giving all the details of the car and we ordered it and its being diverted from the dealership it was going to to the one nearer us.
If you want a GTD or any car that is further away they cannot do it over the phone however the salesman told us of a work around, if you call motability, do the application with them then phone the dealership back up and give them the info then you don’t have to actually go to the dealership to order, just to collect.
There is extremely limited stock and it is going fast but it is still possible to get a GTD.. I have to say the VW salesman was awesome, he ended up giving the sale to another garage but was still super helpful along with another salesman while we were waiting for the motability specialist salesman. This was a world of difference to our Ford experience when we got our last motability car where we felt like second class citizens, our first dealer had no auto’s and said they would not bother getting an auto to the dealership for a motability customer, if we wanted to buy privately then they could but they don’t get the same commission, we had to go to another dealership that had an auto to test drive, we had to wait over 2hrs and they really didn’t want to deal with us and was the shortest test drive ever,.
