Golf Mk8 R 20th Anniversary?

[Shug]

On 31/05/2022 at 15:49, fastgolf said:

For me the R400 would have been a much better effort for a special. Thought it was different enough from the standard R especially with the wider wheel arches and Recaro Wingbacks. A unique colour would have been better too.

They are having enough problems making standard cars, can you imagine how hard it would be with larger arches and big changes rather than just cosmetic?

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15 hours ago, Shug said:

They are having enough problems making standard cars, can you imagine how hard it would be with larger arches and big changes rather than just cosmetic?

It’s wiring looms and silicon chips holding builds back. 
 

different body pieces would have little to impact on delivery times. Changing electronics would. 

[R_wannabe_owner]

In these days of managing and reducing costs, its very unlikely VW would ever produce a limited number of bespoke body panel pressings for a low volume anniversary model. IMHO, that would never get signed off by the bean counters in VW’s Ivory Tower.
 

At best, I think all that could have been expected was a anniversary-specific badges, maybe different alloys and a few pieces of model-specific trim. It’s got the badges and carbon fibre trim and as for the alloys - at least there’s the blue option, along with blue door mirror caps 🤣.

[JoeGTI7]

2 hours ago, egg said:

It’s wiring looms and silicon chips holding builds back. 
 

different body pieces would have little to impact on delivery times. Changing electronics would. 

 

I think you're grossly simplifying it. There isn't a chance in hell that VW were going to do a bespoke mass produced car, chip shortages or not.

 

But of course, the chip shortages do affect everything. So many things are indirectly affected by it. Different body panels would obviously require re-tooling... different tools, re-configured robots, new robots, reconfigured assembly lines, etc... There are plenty of electronics involved in setting all that up, all of which require parts that are in short supply!

 

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2 minutes ago, JoeGTI7 said:

 

I think you're grossly simplifying it. There isn't a chance in hell that VW were going to do a bespoke mass produced car, chip shortages or not.

 

But of course, the chip shortages do affect everything. So many things are indirectly affected by it. Different body panels would obviously require re-tooling... different tools, re-configured robots, new robots, reconfigured assembly lines, etc... There are plenty of electronics involved in setting all that up, all of which require parts that are in short supply!

 

they wouldn’t do based it on the figures. They wouldn’t sell enough to make the rnd costs back. 

 

 I seriously doubt theyd have to rebuild their production lines for slightly wider wheel arches. 

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59 minutes ago, R_wannabe_owner said:

In these days of managing and reducing costs, its very unlikely VW would ever produce a limited number of bespoke body panel pressings for a low volume anniversary model. IMHO, that would never get signed off by the bean counters in VW’s Ivory Tower.
 

At best, I think all that could have been expected was a anniversary-specific badges, maybe different alloys and a few pieces of model-specific trim. It’s got the badges and carbon fibre trim and as for the alloys - at least there’s the blue option, along with blue door mirror caps 🤣.

exactly. 

[Mange]

Now you can build it on the .de Site :). And it is expensive . But you don´t need all blue

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CeS-FhpjMso/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

 

 

[TurboTrev]

Yes, very expensive and standard spec does not include leather and akrapovic amongst others.  I wonder when VWUK are going to launch it and what our standard spec and price will be?

[aldfort]

32 minutes ago, TurboTrev said:

Yes, very expensive and standard spec does not include leather and akrapovic amongst others.  I wonder when VWUK are going to launch it and what our standard spec and price will be?

I think VWUK would just like to get some of the backorder shifted. 

Pretty soon they will face a growing new gripe - "where's my engine cover?" 

[speedjunkie]

Looks like you get leather but no akrapovic. Wonder when it will be on UK site as my German isn’t brilliant!

[AHG]

It’s on the website, but not ready to order.

https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/new/golf-r-20.html

and it does come with akrapovic 

[speedjunkie]

Just now, AHG said:

It’s on the website, but not ready to order.

https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/new/golf-r-20.html

and it does come with akrapovic 

It’s not included on German configurator.

[AHG]

https://www.volkswagen.de/de/konfigurator.html/__app/der-neue-golf/golf-active/golf-r-20-years.app?category-app=private&carlineId-app=30310&exteriorId-app=F14+0Q0Q&interiorId-app=F56+++++OB&modelId-app=CD1RPT%24MAAUE4R%24GW4RW4R%24GYOSYOS&modelVersion-app=1&modelYear-app=2023&salesGroupId-app=33380&trimName-app=R+"20+Years"&buildabilityStatus-app=buildable&---={"configuration-step-navigation-service"%3A"%2F%3FconfigStep%3D%7B%22context%22%3A%2230310-33380-R%2B%5C%2220%2BYears%5C%22%22%2C%22configurationStep%22%3A%22options%22%7D"}

[Shug]

6 hours ago, egg said:

It’s wiring looms and silicon chips holding builds back. 
 

different body pieces would have little to impact on delivery times. Changing electronics would. 

No way would they produce cars with major changes needed to their production lines. Would need major reconfiguration of the line and supply chains for a small volume.

 

What do I know, only been in Ford, Vauxhall, BMW, Merc, VW, Audi, Kia, Hyundai and a few other production plants over the past few years 🤪

[mike2727]

2 hours ago, TurboTrev said:

Yes, very expensive and standard spec does not include leather and akrapovic amongst others.  I wonder when VWUK are going to launch it and what our standard spec and price will be?

Yes expensive, PP and Leather is standard on the ED20, but Akra/DCC is not on the German configurator, I bought my fully loaded 1 year old 30% below new price 👍