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In reply to the discussion: Why Stick Shifts Are Going Extinct. The End of the Stick Shift. [View all]ms liberty
(8,573 posts)Is it black or the iron blue? And what year? Also, since it has the red highlights and calipers, is it an Autobahn or an R?
I have a 2019, Autobahn in the iron blue that I fell in love with the moment I saw it...when hubby and I were out window shopping in Spring 2020, and we weren't really intending to buy yet. This was during what I like to call our pre-shopping period (when we inevitably find exactly what we want) but this one was on the lot and was everything I wanted except the R package and white. The color was beautiful and I fell hard, abnd I knew how great it would look once I got the windows tinted darker. It has the variable shift, but so far I've barely used it; my old GTI was a 6 speed manual and after driving it for 15 years I was ready for a break. It only had about 500 miles on it, so we went ahead and got it. Someone wanted to test drive it while we were doing the paperwork, lol. It would not have been there long.
My previous car was a 2003 GTI VR6, and I loved it - and we kept it because it just wouldn't have brought that much in a trade and it still runs well. Hubby drives it to work most days now; fitting because it was his dream car when we bought it (right off the showroom floor) but it became my dream car, and it's why I got another GTI. I'm in rural NC, and it takes me about 8 minutes to get to work via hilly, curvy roads. It's a drivers dream out here, and my GTI and I love it every day.
A couple of years ago I got stopped one night by a local cop; he thought he was going to harass some kid in a sports car...the look on his face when he got to the window and he saw a 50 some year old woman was priceless.