If Golfs came in a more exciting range of colours, what would you choose?

[nicandlance]

Love it! I'd buy!

[MaccaTSI]

There was a German guy on the golfmk6.com forums who said that over there you can pick pretty much any colour you want, but the cost of the colours varies, not just metallic and non-metallic prices.

So I guess VW Australia just wanted to import the safer colours.

I wonder if there is anyway to pay the extra for a 'special' colour when ordering....

[G-rig]

Not if you're a girl........

Sorry, i should have stated it would be ok for girls (bit like the mini turquoise colour).

Agree that we dont need too many ferrule colours like the disgusting falcadoor colours.

Also seems that you can only buy Subaru Liberties in shades between black and white.

[EndlessMKI]

the range needs a green and yellow.

[gregozedobe]

I'm rather partial to the Skoda "Sprint Yellow" - I've had it for 18 months now and am really liking it. I know yellow isn't to everyone's taste, but hey, no one else paid for my car - I did

I really don't understand why VW won't let people doing a factory order choose from the full range of colours that are available at the factory. It's not like they keep a stock of ready painted body panels in the std colours or anything. If they are worried about getting stuck with a car in an "unsellable" colour then they could simply demand a very large non-refundable deposit at the time of ordering.

In the UK some of the smarter Skoda dealers found a way to get "non-std-UK" colours by ordering the car in a std-UK colour, then faxing the Skoda factory with an amendment to the non-std colour the buyer actually wanted. Seemed to bypass the UK head office control freaks and give the paying customer the car they really wanted.

[Corey_R]

There was a German guy on the golfmk6.com forums who said that over there you can pick pretty much any colour you want, but the cost of the colours varies, not just metallic and non-metallic prices.

Yeah, you can go to the German site, then to Konfigurator page and GTI and check out the list. I've written them down here for you, but excuse my German to English translation. Not sure what a few of the greens are in English!

Here is the list:
Non-Metallic (No cost):
Candy-White
Black
Tornado Red

Metallic (490 Euro):
Carbon Steel Grey Metallic
Reflex Silver Metallic
Shadow Blue Metallica
United Grey Metallica

Pearl Effect (490 Euro)
Blue-Graphite Pearl Effect
Deep Black Pearl Effect

Everything from here below is either 1625 Euro (non-metallic) or 2020 Euro (Metallic/Pearl Effect)
Blues:
Blue
Blue Spirit Pearl Effect
Dark Violet Pearl Effect
Deep Blue Pearl Effect
Inky Blue Pearl Effect
Light Blue
Mercato Blue Metallic
Moonlight Blue Pearl Effect
Raven Blue Metallic
Silver Blue Metallic
Techo-Blue Metallic
Ultra Marine Blue
Violet Touch Pearl Effect

Yellows:
Broom Yellow
Yellow

Silvers:
Platinum Grey Metallic
Silver Grey Metallic
Urban Grey Metallic
Tin-Grey Metallic

Greens:
Bright Green Pearl Effect
Cosmic Green Metallic
Minzgrün ??
Racing Green
Resedagrün ??

Reds:
Red Colour 2000
Dark Burgundy Pearl Effect (I believe this was used for the Wörthersee Edition GTI)
Flash Red

[Buller_Scott]

like paul said.... light metallic blue (now, call me a fruitbooter but in my opinion the ONLY COLOR for modern mid engined ferraris is the super light metallic blue.... hands down)...

in addition: deep metallic plum (purple/pink)

and of course.... super-metallic burgundy. who could say no to that on ANY car?

[nicandlance]

Yeah, you can go to the German site, then to Konfigurator page and GTI and check out the list. I've written them down here for you, but excuse my German to English translation. Not sure what a few of the greens are in English!

Here is the list:
Non-Metallic (No cost):
Candy-White
Black
Tornado Red

Metallic (490 Euro):
Carbon Steel Grey Metallic
Reflex Silver Metallic
Shadow Blue Metallica
United Grey Metallica

Pearl Effect (490 Euro)
Blue-Graphite Pearl Effect
Deep Black Pearl Effect

Everything from here below is either 1625 Euro (non-metallic) or 2020 Euro (Metallic/Pearl Effect)
Blues:
Blue
Blue Spirit Pearl Effect
Dark Violet Pearl Effect
Deep Blue Pearl Effect
Inky Blue Pearl Effect
Light Blue
Mercato Blue Metallic
Moonlight Blue Pearl Effect
Raven Blue Metallic
Silver Blue Metallic
Techo-Blue Metallic
Ultra Marine Blue
Violet Touch Pearl Effect

Yellows:
Broom Yellow
Yellow

Silvers:
Platinum Grey Metallic
Silver Grey Metallic
Urban Grey Metallic
Tin-Grey Metallic

Greens:
Bright Green Pearl Effect
Cosmic Green Metallic
Minzgrün ??
Racing Green
Resedagrün ??

Reds:
Red Colour 2000
Dark Burgundy Pearl Effect (I believe this was used for the Wörthersee Edition GTI)
Flash Red

Would minzgrun be mint green?

[Corey_R]

Quite possibly!

[cme2c]

The choice of colours was the only thing we didn't like about the 118TSI. That said, my wife loves her black car A mid blue or tornado red would have been better, however.

So, if anyone sees a black 118TSI with a pink fairy hanging from the mirror in western Sydney, it's Mrs cme2c.

[Corey_R]

So I found this list of the 36 colours available on the GTI in Germany... and a pretty picture to go along with it!

1. Candy White
2. Black
3. Reflex Silver Metallic
4. Carbon Steel Grey Metallic
5. Tornado Red
6. Shadow Blue Metallic
7. United Grey Metallic
8. Blue Graphite Pearl
9. Deep Black Pearl
10. Blue
11. Blue Spirit Pearl
12. Dark Violet Pearl
13. Deep Blue Pearl
14. Ink blue Pearl
15. Light Blue
16. Mercato Blue Metallic
17. Moonlight Blue Pearl
18. Ravenna Blue Metallic
19. Silverblue Metallic
20. Techno Blue Pearl
21. Ultramarin Blue
22. Violet Touch Pearl
23. Brush Yellow
24. Platinum Grey Metallic
25. Silver Grey Metallic
26. Urban Grey Metallic
27. Tin Grey Metallic
28. Bright Green Pearl
29. Cosmic Green Metallic
30. Mint Green
31. Racing Green
32. Reseda Green
33. Cola Red 2000
34. Dark Burgandy Pearl
35. Flash Red
36. Yellow



There are some nice ones there... I wish we had this selection in Australia

[Wolfgang]

If enough people start asking for different colours VW may listen.

Public campaign. Free the Golf of boring colours!

[mfl]

If enough people start asking for different colours VW may listen.

Public campaign. Free the Golf of boring colours!

The no 14. Ink blue Pearl would be my choice, when i got my GTI , the dealer had their last r32 in metallic blue for sale. If I had the extra money would have bought the r32 for the colour alone (of course the AWD and v6 would have been nice too).

as for VW listening, .... think I will have to save up for an r20.

[hooba]

Or at least let us Special Order them.

[Corey_R]

Or at least let us Special Order them.

Yeah - this is what I'd like to see happen. I don't understand why there could be any possible reason to restrict something like "factory order colour choices" from one country to another. As long as the customer is happy to wait and understands it's a special order, what is the problem?