Volkswagen Golf GTI MK8.5 review | Why this GTI saddens me 

It's the price of the GTI that is the worse part.

60k is not an aspirational price, it's beyond absurd.

Nob heads 😂 👍

Had the 8 Absolute stinker because of the issues you mentioned, too burnt by it to chance it again.

Putting the price aside, it seems the unreliable infotainment system that's in these (and Skoda & SEAT/CUPRA) is the biggest headache unfortunately. I'd love a VRS but couldn't take a chance for the price they command along with potential issues. 😢

Hi Mark. So Volkswagen are stifling with €20 billion profit. Poor souls. The cost of new cars has gone up and up over the last years and yet the interior quality has gone down coupled with the SCREEN. Certainly in this one it does seem plonked in. And I am positive that this reduced the cost of manufacture so makes you wonder why they are so much more expensive. Could it be because of the fines they will be forced to pay for not selling their quota of electric cars and normal users have to pay it……?

I had a mk1.5 (the later 1.8 😂), mk 4 and mk 7 - they were great cars - now have a Cupra Born (it certainly has its good points, but it certainly isn't a GTi 😂). The mk 8.5 is the GTi's last hurrah 😢. The wheels look awful, what is it with VW and wheel design - couldn't they poach someone from BMW 😂 ?

Excellent video! Your production quality and editing is excellent. And that is a proper good looking car! 😎 Glad to hear they’ve sorted the niggles from Mk8.0…. also, we need to make Nob Heads catch on 😂

plus with the base price rise they sneaked in...standard car plus just an optional colour, gets you luxury car tax..thanks VW

with software updates I've not had any issues with the 3.2 software

Anyone else's OCD going nuts over the 'T' in the GTI logo on the hatch not centering under the 'W' in the VW badge?

I’ve had 2 GTI over the years and follow you so that defo makes me a knobhead… brilliant

its just down to cost the average car cost 30,000 pounds 5 years ago it was 15000 that's why and ev sales are down too

40k ceiling is too low now it should have gone up with inflation

Great review as always 👍

very cheap get me two...

Nice car too expensive!!

Software has nothing to do with electrification a little overplayed to blame everything on electric vehicles

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How much is a gti now ? 200k