Colour choices...GTI specific ?

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Originally Posted by coreying

In Germany specifically, they get over 30 colour options, including yellows, greens, reds, blues, and even purples!

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Curiosity got the better of me so I took a look at the German VW GTI catalogue...

They get a few more than us, but not heaps more..

The colours listed there are -

Schwarz
Candy-Weiß
Tornadorot
Carbon Steel Grey
Reflexsilber
Shadow Blue
United Grey
Deep Black (why not Schwarz?)
Blue-Graphit

Both blues actually look quite stunning, IMO

Regards,
- Anthony.

Out of the colours on offer Carbon Steel is the best, than Black, Silver, Red and White.

I'm quite surprised so many people like white...

I voted for Carbon Steel but I'd struggle to pick between White and Black after that. We got black as its my gfs preference but I think the GTIs look stunning in white.

Not a huge fan of the red personally. I guess for me it would go:

Carbon Steel
White
Black
Red
Silver

I like the MKV GTIs that came out in the darker grey colour for a while too... more than red or silver.

Before we ordered our car. I used to want white one. On the day we put our order, my wife said we should get carbon steel gray as it's new and special.

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Originally Posted by hoi polloi

Curiosity got the better of me so I took a look at the German VW GTI catalogue...

They get a few more than us, but not heaps more..

The colours listed there are -

Schwarz
Candy-Weiß
Tornadorot
Carbon Steel Grey
Reflexsilber
Shadow Blue
United Grey
Deep Black (why not Schwarz?)
Blue-Graphit

Both blues actually look quite stunning, IMO

Regards,
- Anthony.

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Aaah - but you've forgotten something. The VW Konfigurator where you can configure your new car online, and select a few more options than are you the brochure.

Here is a post I did back in November, and I've just confirmed that it is still correct. I translated as many of the names as I could from German into English.

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Originally Posted by coreying

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

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Originally Posted by Dermot

Schwarz is a non metallic black, code A1A1, and is not available in Australia on any car or van. It's a shocker, very dull and impossible to keep clean. Deep Black Pearl is far nicer, as is Black Magic Pearl.

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Hey Dermot, any new colours for first year anniversary for standard 118?

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Originally Posted by coreying

Aaah - but you've forgotten something.

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Ha ha ha...

That'd be right!!

Thanks for the heads-up... Kinda wish we could get a few more colours here in Aust - wouldn't be too difficult for VW either seeing as most of the cars bought by the people in here seem to be custom builds anyway..

Cheers,
-Anthony.

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Originally Posted by hoi polloi

Ha ha ha...

That'd be right!!

Thanks for the heads-up... Kinda wish we could get a few more colours here in Aust - wouldn't be too difficult for VW either seeing as most of the cars bought by the people in here seem to be custom builds anyway..

Cheers,
-Anthony.

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You would think that custom builds would be allowed to have factory provided colours.
Seems a bit rediculous that you are limited to 5 "colours"

You could always get a vinyl wrap in any colour.
Carbon fibre pattern or matte black would look pretty neat.

When I bought my GTI they had one Tornado Red and one Deep Pearl Black on the lot...ended up getting the Black - I must have walked back and forth between the two for 20 mins trying to decide after being set on a red one, but am happy with what I chose :D

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Originally Posted by team_v

You would think that custom builds would be allowed to have factory provided colours.
Seems a bit rediculous that you are limited to 5 "colours"

You could always get a vinyl wrap in any colour.
Carbon fibre pattern or matte black would look pretty neat.

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Yeah - I agree, I think that it seems very strange that you can't specify any colour you want if it needs to come from a factory, as long as you're happy to wait until the 'next batch' of that colour is done.

As for matte black - I saw a MKV GTI in South Korea in matte black when I was there recently. Looked pretty cool.