The Official Golf Mk VI Picture Thread

[Karlosovic]

Yeah - and whilst I agree with you, it still doesn't change how much money you actually have to hand over.
Your new car HAS to come with wheels. So regardless of what wheels are on there, if you want to upgrade to a set of 18" wheels, you have 1 option from the factory, which is $1200, or you can go any of the dealer accessories wheels (all over $4k once you add tyres), or the option that you suggested ($5200).

So it doesn't really matter how you want to state the value of the original wheels, $1200 vs $4k or $5k etc is a huge difference. That's all I was pointing out.
And of course no hard feelings

Honestly I have to partly disagree
When i first started researching the new Golf, i read about the Detroit option and at the time wondered how much difference 1" would make.
When I started going to dealerships, I made special care to judge for myself the up-close-and-personal difference between the stock and option wheels - and to cut a long story short, I was blown away
After seeing the difference in person the Detroit wheels immediately became my one and only non-negotiable - and I really haven't changed my mind since. And although I would normally (or previously) have chosen a much different style of rims, nothing else looks very appealing to me on a golf.

Obviously, this all comes down to personal preference, but personally I love the Detroits.


A few other random feelings:
* Rims should only ever be silver/chrome/smoked chrome. There's nothing worse than coloured wheels. (The one exception to this is Honda Integra Type-R in dark blue with white rims)
*corey is definitely correct to say that the real cost of Detroits is $1200. Volkswagen will not remove the price of the denvers in any other circumstance, and for the case of this argument, the cost of buying a Mk VI GTI is a given
*Why on earth are both the wheel options on a classic german car named after U.S cities?
*My loan paperwork should go through tomorrow, in plenty of time for my expected pick-up date of friday week (11 June 2010)
*Someone mentioned colours. Actually many people mentioned colours. Personally I love the MK VI in all the factory colours, although for some reason I'm not quite so taken by the black, and I wonder why they removed blue. That said... when it came right down to it, I think the only other colour I would have seriously considered was candy white.
*I agree that white or silver cars tend to look the least dirty for any given amount of dirt.
*Red cars tend to show up dirt the worst
*It's a weird personal idiosyncrasy, but I just think German cars should be silver

[elephino]

Just because the rims are mentioned here, I have the Detroits and the ride on those (without ACC) is clearly better than the ride on the MkV with 17". I was surprised as I was expecting it to be about the same.

[Corey_R]

Honestly I have to partly disagree
When i first started researching the new Golf, i read about the Detroit option and at the time wondered how much difference 1" would make.
When I started going to dealerships, I made special care to judge for myself the up-close-and-personal difference between the stock and option wheels - and to cut a long story short, I was blown away
After seeing the difference in person the Detroit wheels immediately became my one and only non-negotiable - and I really haven't changed my mind since. And although I would normally (or previously) have chosen a much different style of rims, nothing else looks very appealing to me on a golf.

Obviously, this all comes down to personal preference, but personally I love the Detroits.


A few other random feelings:
* Rims should only ever be silver/chrome/smoked chrome. There's nothing worse than coloured wheels. (The one exception to this is Honda Integra Type-R in dark blue with white rims)
*corey is definitely correct to say that the real cost of Detroits is $1200. Volkswagen will not remove the price of the denvers in any other circumstance, and for the case of this argument, the cost of buying a Mk VI GTI is a given
*Why on earth are both the wheel options on a classic german car named after U.S cities?
*My loan paperwork should go through tomorrow, in plenty of time for my expected pick-up date of friday week (11 June 2010)
*Someone mentioned colours. Actually many people mentioned colours. Personally I love the MK VI in all the factory colours, although for some reason I'm not quite so taken by the black, and I wonder why they removed blue. That said... when it came right down to it, I think the only other colour I would have seriously considered was candy white.
*I agree that white or silver cars tend to look the least dirty for any given amount of dirt.
*Red cars tend to show up dirt the worst
*It's a weird personal idiosyncrasy, but I just think German cars should be silver

So what was it that you were disagreeing with ? lol

[dave_r]

*cough*White isn't a colour*cough*

LOL no it isn't, but that shouldn't stop any sane person selecting it

[elephino]

*cough*White isn't a colour*cough*

Shall we treat it like Prince and call white 'the paint applied to the car known as white'?

[Karlosovic]

So what was it that you were disagreeing with ? lol

Hmm, reading back now i feel I may have misunderstood something. If you note the time on my post.... that was me at the end of a nightshift - following a full regular day's work. Which also explains why my random thoughts were also a bit scattered

[Corey_R]

hehe - that's alright, I do that too sometimes

[Brendan_A]

Here's a couple of pictures of my new MK6 Golf:

[GTi Crow]

Picked up my GTI on Saturday and between the lousy Adelaide weather and trying to get me out of the drivers seat to wash it, these are my only pictures to date. Enjoy - as much as I am.

[Zaul]

Ah nice Crow, my CS should be here in a few weeks. I saw a CS at the dealer the other day, the look sweet I must say.

I notice you have the standard numberplate on your's. I was thinking of the Euro plates but didn't want to pay the $150 annual charge. Thieves the state gov't are.

[Corey_R]

Yeah - stick with the standard plates and hopefully SA will go back to the non-annual fee for 'standard content plates', even for the Euro plates, like NSW did part way through last year

[GTi Crow]

Ah nice Crow, my CS should be here in a few weeks. I saw a CS at the dealer the other day, the look sweet I must say.

I notice you have the standard numberplate on your's. I was thinking of the Euro plates but didn't want to pay the $150 annual charge. Thieves the state gov't are.

Same with me - not interested in paying an annual fee. I can't see the front plate when I am driving - neither can most other drivers as they are behind me before they realise it and the back plate looks fine.

Don't forget all other Adelaide CS owners have to have a stripe painted on their CS so we can tell them apart.

[AdamD]

Picked up my GTI on Saturday and between the lousy Adelaide weather and trying to get me out of the drivers seat to wash it, these are my only pictures to date. Enjoy - as much as I am.

Looks fantastic, Crow!

I've not yet taken mine out in the rain, but still managed 200km+ in the 24 hours after I picked it up on Monday afternoon. (Posted pics in the ordered/received thread.)

[Nath]

jumped into the dealers yard on the way past this morning, took a few happy snaps (R and GTD)






these look so hot in person...




just like the GTI damn ugly Euro plate holder




GTD just because it was there

[AdamD]

these look so hot in person...

I am soooo going to retro-fit my GTI with these!