Leather Option

[GTi Crow]

I've gone for leather for the first time. My Mk5 cloth seats wore pretty ordinary, especially on the drivers bolster ending up with a hole. I note Mk 6 is more supportive there, but I have ordered leather.

I hope park assist is not a gimmick - I want to see my wife parallel park for the first time since she passed her drivers licence some 35 odd years ago - hopefully with no damage.

[elisiX]

Park Assist is going to be the most awesome gimmick

[pologti18t]

I think sunroofs in a car are like pools and houses.

Some people like them but to others they are a turnoff to buying the house.

Same for sunroofs. They are a significant percentage of the population who wouldn't pay a red cent more for a car with one or wouldn't buy a car because it had a sunroof. They worry if it will leak, rattle or cause rust.

The leather:
"

Vienna leather appointed seat upholstery with individually heated front sports seats
and electric lumbar adjustment

Some parts of the leather appointed seat upholstery will contain man made material."

In the "olden" days the options to ensure better resale were a nice metallic colour, nice set of factory alloys and A/C

I still think people looking at a secondhand GTI would get more wow value out of fiddling with a Dynaudio system than they would look at media interfaces, bluetooth etc etc.

[Dubya]

Not sure how much fun the typical GTI driver is going to have "fiddling" with the stereo. Maybe if they have no licence yet.

My contention is that these days a sunroof is desired by many buyers (a lot better made than in days gone by) and it is an option that adds something extra to the car whereas $1300 for a better stereo when it already has one does not add a lot of appreciable value.

[Corey_R]

As for Park Assist at $1,400, I for one take some pride in my ability to reverse park quickly and into spaces far tighter than Park Assist is capable of handling - indeed the tighter the parking space the less likely Park Assist is able to manage it and the larger the space the less you need Park Assist! Nor will Park Assist be able to accomplish Dubya's patented reverse u-turn park.

Park Assist can now park into a spot only 1.1m larger than the actual car! And it can do it in 15 seconds. I can reverse park a car in a 'tightish' space so quick that I've been known to literally scare my passengers, but even I will admit that in a space only 1.1m larger than my Golf I'd probably take longer that 15 seconds for me to complete the task!

[Dubya]

Sure it might; but for $1400? Bit of a gimmick.

[Spook]

But $1,400 also gets you the front and rear parking sensors with the optical display as well. So even if you don't use the trick self-parking, you get good use out of this option. OEM parking sensors would be close to $1k I reckon, so not that much more for the assist.

[gtimal]

But $1,400 also gets you the front and rear parking sensors with the optical display as well. So even if you don't use the trick self-parking, you get good use out of this option. OEM parking sensors would be close to $1k I reckon, so not that much more for the assist.

Barloworld can fit reverse parking sensors for @ $700 plus it covered under warranty .

Cheers

[bigmouthmedia]

Park Assist can now park into a spot only 1.1m larger than the actual car! And it can do it in 15 seconds. I can reverse park a car in a 'tightish' space so quick that I've been known to literally scare my passengers, but even I will admit that in a space only 1.1m larger than my Golf I'd probably take longer that 15 seconds for me to complete the task!

I thought about getting this too - but then....I thought - what happens if you are in the middle of the city (whether it's Melbourne, Sydney, etc) - and you've got a ton of traffic to contend with - you're gonna p**s off a lot of people when you're going at 25km/hr to find the spot and then have it back in.

Maybe it's just our 'fast' lifestyle.

[Dubya]

Barloworld can fit reverse parking sensors for @ $700 plus it covered under warranty .

Cheers

Yeah, but, our correspondent referred to the value of front AND rear sensors.

I thought about getting this too - but then....I thought - what happens if you are in the middle of the city (whether it's Melbourne, Sydney, etc) - and you've got a ton of traffic to contend with - you're gonna p**s off a lot of people when you're going at 25km/hr to find the spot and then have it back in.

Maybe it's just our 'fast' lifestyle.

But Park Assist is to be used to measure spaces not find them so current practices prevail.