I picked up my 2015 GSW S with DSG at Uptown VW in Albuquerque on May 15th. $5,000 discount of MSRP for an actual price of $21,800. Rubber and fabric mats, Lightning adapter, cargo blocks included. I didn't try to negotiate a lower price; I was just happy to close the deal as I didn't know how many were out there. SF Bay Area dealers didn't appear to be offering the VW discount or have much inventory. I got royally pissed off at Antwerpen VW in Maryland for false low-ball advertising on cars.com which is where I found the car that I bought. I was happy to find the model I wanted in the color I wanted, titanium silver. Put a deposit on a credit card over the phone. My wife and I took Amtrak and the salesman picked us up at the station.
VW makes you finance a minimum of $6K at 0% interest for the $5K discount. Uh, okay! (VW does a lot of things I don't understand.) No pre-payment penalty. I financed $8K, just sold back our 2010 JSW, today, so I get a new car with a warranty for $119.50 for 72 months. I was going to do the fix but after I looked at the buyback price, it was a no brainer. $16.2 for a car I paid $15.5 on two years before. Plus the DSG was slow to engage making me nervous.
We drove back and got 45.6 mpg average at the pump. Pretty good for a fresh engine with 60 miles on the clock and at altitude. Best tank was 50.0 dead even. We love the new car.
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I swapped the 17"s from my 2010. It killed me to put the pristine 16s with tires that had just 2,500 miles on them on the buyback car but I couldn't find anyone that was interested in a cash + swap deal.
I was kind of irked that the dealer hadn't filled up the tank as promised. I got documentation from the dealer that I had to have the car smogged in CA. They paid the $44 fee and included another $81 as compensation for the key fob remote batteries we had to replace within 24 hours of leaving the dealer. I had requested $8, so, it's all good and fair.
Oh, I had the car 40 hours before I walked out in the hotel parking lot and found somebody had already scratched my new car even though we took care to park in isolation. Grrr!
We miss the heated seats of the 2010 but the 2015 warms up so much quicker it should make it more bearable. It's interesting seeing the advances in TDi technology as we've owned 2005, 2010, and now the 2015. We referred to the 2005 Golf as the tractor. That moniker was dropped with the 2010. 2000RPM in the 2010 was 60mph, 2000RPM in the 2015 is 70mph. 2500RPM is 90mph!
Hope this helps.