hal@aesat.UUCP (Hal Patnaik) (09/25/84)
Well, here are some prices I managed to scrounge up for the new Golf GTI's: BASE : $ 11,345 (last year was $10,295) FRT & PDI : $ 340 CRUISE : $ 240 AIR : $ 1,095 (includes air tax) POWER STEERING : $ 345 STEREO/CASSETTE : $ 350 The normal golfs will be substantially cheaper and start off at $8585. This would be a good deal for someone who had been thinking of an 84 GTI as it has the same engine, and is a much better designed car (and will be only a few ticks slower than an 84 GTI (for $8585, you can afford to make a lot of changes, like Recaros, bigger wheels and tires, etc.) AVAILABILITY: This is a very sore issue. I have had several different opinions from several different dealers. They range from the end of December to May of 1985 for the GTI. The normal Golf will be available by the end of October. The GTI will have a 100hp engine and all other Golf's and Jetta's will have last years 1.8L 90hp GTI engine. VW is also going to introduce a Jetta Carat in replacement of the Jetta GLI, which will be loaded to the gills with luxury items like power windows, air conditioning, stereo, the new GTI engine, etc. All the dealers I talked to were not flexible as far as concerns price, you pay list or you don't get a car. Not only that, but they are saying that if you order a car now, you will be better off. For 2 reasons: you will be getting one of the first cars off the lot, and by the time the third production starts (GTI's come off on the October productions, which was the second) VW will add a premium of about $500 to the cars.... This is beginning to sound like dealing with Honda or Nissan.. (and I thought only Japanese cars had import restrictions :-), not to mention the fact that all these cars are made in Good 'ol US of A. But the cars are really only ASSEMBLED in the states, with a majority of the parts being shipped from Alemania (thats Spanish for Germany) Anyway, the GTI is worth the wait, but if you get a car with air, a sunroof, frt. etc. by the time you are finished, you have the price of an '84 Honda Prelude which you can get in only 3 months... Something to consider... (ie, wouldn't you rather be seen in a Prelude than a GTI?????) Happy driving!!!! Hal Patnaik {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!aesat!hal AES DATA, Inc. Bus: (416) 821-9190 x. 364 1900 Minnesota Crt. Home: (416) 844-1607 Mississauga, Ont. CANADA
hawk@oliven.UUCP (Rick) (10/10/84)
>BASE : $ 11,345 (last year was $10,295) >POWER STEERING : $ 345 >The normal golfs will be substantially cheaper and start off at >$8585. Sorry, but list most certainly was not 10,295. That may have been the price after added dealer extortion, but base started just below 8k and ended up over, I think. I was offered one by a salesman for 8k about a month and a half ago when I was looking. The price on the car was over 10k, but I told him I wouldn't go over 8k before he started looking at their prices--so he read off the list prices. And who in their right mind would put power steering on a GTI????? rick
davew@shark.UUCP (Dave Williams) (10/12/84)
The prices quoted by Hal Patniak in his article on 1985 Golf prices seemed rather high to me, but then I noticed that Hal lives in The Great White North (Canada). The prices quoted were in $CDN. This makes you both correct. $CDN 10,295 ~= $US 8,010.30. The base in Canada may also be different than that in the States even with the currency exchange figured in. Dave "Watch Those Header Lines" Williams Tektronix, Inc. ECS (The Workstation People)