I love the non-metallic colours that are coming out right now. My GTI is the Cornflower Blue and I love the colour to bits.
The Turbo S in the neighbourhood is a greenish silver. I don't see that colour in the normal colours, I don't see it in the $16K upgrade colours. Did they spring for $42K upgrade custom colour? Maybe? I'll ask him when I see him. It looks cool. It may be fish silver grey but my memory says it's greener.
Paint looks great. With all the extra money they're getting from that option, you'd think they could afford a dentist to fix their buckteeth.
i don't mind the grille at all, sure at first it was very polarizing but..if you black it out it looks great (imo). BMW makes my favourite colour ever so i might be slightly biased;
The baby buck teeth are not better than the full-on cleetus teeth imo. I like the colour.
the Maverick dream still alive?
Do dreams ever die? Yes it’s always in the back of my head, but the GTI is just…good in everything.
if you got the DSG version you'd probably be more apt to keep it. wife can use it, no more gritting your teeth on the soul killing rush hour traffic...yeah it's not as involved but if you aren't taking it out on backroad romps anyways be honest with yourself about it's intended usage.
If it's stop and go rush hour, dsg is going to hate you. It really doesn't like much less than 10 kph. I don't know how slow you can go before it can't lock up anymore (and that's part of the issue as there is no easy way to determine if it's locked or slipping).
Tried that. The dealer low balled me on my 6MT, and kept their full price for the DSG…
I think there's three different combos at play here. Non-metallic base colour (red, blue, black, white, etc) which have been around forever; matte finish but often metallic painted cars like the BMW's posted above where there is no shiny clear coat; and the last is what @MacDoc posted about, which have become more common in the past few years: clear coated non-metallic paint that looks dull and almost matte, very much like wet putty or like primer paint. The colours are usually muted greys and blues, almost pastel shades. Porsche, BMW and Audi popularised them first, but VW, Honda, and a bunch of others have started offering them in the past year or two...
The 'well, ackshully," pedant in me just can't resist pointing out that I said no *shiny* clear coat, no matter how hard I try to just leave it and not reply. But then again, I didn't clarify that the clear coat on the putty cars was shiny, so only have myself to blame...
