ah im gutted to be honest...
I just brought a MK5 new 8 months ago in the UK i payed £26,000 ($43,000) fully loaded.
I could have brought 2 cars for the price of mine if i lived in the US !!
I guess its our fault for paying it.. they know they can put the price tag on it because we will pay it too...
on a side note I wont be trading my MK V in because it will have lost so much money in the first 12 months, ive only done 4,000 miles in it.. and I realy really like it loads, im not to keen on the MK VI styling to be honest, it looks a little smaller, Ive not looked at the dimensions, it just looks odd.
I only have my self to blame for paying that much, I drove a friends GTI and wanted one so i went and brought one !! lol
Anyways I just went onto the UK site and did a quick compare, I first saw that start-up prices for the GTI were from £22,415 to £24,305
So then I started to add all of the "Extra's" that are on my current car and it came in rather expensive
So im pleased with that outcome ;-)
All of the above extras are on my MK V as well so its not worth me upgrading, so im a happy bunny
Still not happy with the price difference between US and UK though !