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Jackdoor wrote:My GTi + was built last week, as per build week promised on the app. However as a warning the progress was not updated until the following week. It went from build week to left the factory. An hour later I had a text reporting that the build had just started! Got on live chat and had confirmation it had left the factory this Monday morning. Hopefully it will be on a ship soon.

albob wrote: Thu Jun 07, 2018 11:00 am There is an 'interesting' warning note on the VW german site configurator page regarding the GTI and WLTP

Google translation

"...….Technical specifications

Please note the following note before proceeding with the configuration:

Polo GTI 2.0 l TSI 147 kW (200 hp) 6-speed dual-clutch gearbox DSG
144.42 € / month * 2, * 3

or 23.950,00 € * 1

Additional hint

Due to the changeover to the new WLTP (Worldwide Harmonized Light-Duty Vehicles Test Procedure), the model you choose may be different in terms of technical features and equipment when delivered after the model year change. For more information visit www.volkswagen.de/wltp or ask your trading partner...…."


weirdly, this note doesn't appear on the French/UK sites

Dan34 wrote: Fri Jun 08, 2018 9:02 am My order moved to in transit this morning finally! Now for the long boat ride....

barrywi wrote: Fri Jun 08, 2018 11:41 am After complaining by email about the situation to VW Iactually got a call from a foreign accented man to let me know ( as with others on here) that my car has now been built and is in transit. More than that, he is going to send me an email with a complaint reference number and his personal telephone number in case of further queries. He explained that the car was built in South Africa and that it would take until August to arrive at the dealers, which I know.
The next mission is to find out which ship it is loaded onto to track that to keep me a happy bunny.
Sympathies to those who have ordered before me that have not got this information and are still waiting for their cars but I will update here on the progress of my car and probably others who will get the last GTIs before the two month shutdown.
The VW App has updated today as well so all in sync.
I will also post any information I can glean about how my car and ones built after the shutdown may or may not be different in spec.
VW are no longer taking orders for the gti the man said.
Onwards and Northwards hopefully.

barrywi wrote: Wed Jun 06, 2018 1:09 pm Anotther thought.
Will the vehicle tax be any different between pre and post WTLM versions?

stevereeves wrote: Fri Jun 08, 2018 11:40 pm

barrywi wrote: Wed Jun 06, 2018 1:09 pm Anotther thought.
Will the vehicle tax be any different between pre and post WTLM versions?

As a matter of curiosity (and a touch of madness) a years road tax on a new 1.0 Polo is £120 /£140 I believe, on my Golf 1.4 petrol it's £30 p.a. Was chatting to a mate owns a recent, but not new, Vauxhall Insignia 2.0 (or 2.2) diesel and his road tax is zip, zilch, zero, nothing. Guess that makes sense to someone, somewhere....

johnpolo2 wrote: Fri Jun 08, 2018 5:27 am

Jackdoor wrote:My GTi + was built last week, as per build week promised on the app. However as a warning the progress was not updated until the following week. It went from build week to left the factory. An hour later I had a text reporting that the build had just started! Got on live chat and had confirmation it had left the factory this Monday morning. Hopefully it will be on a ship soon.

how much kit did you order?

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