Volkswagen has reduced the price of the Golf R Cabriolet to £33,170
Volkswagen has announced that it has cut the price of its flagship Golf R Cabriolet by £5,600. The new figure is effective immediately, although VW’s website might take a little time to update, and takes the cost of a Golf R to £33,170.
That means the Golf R Cabriolet is priced much closer, and more realistically, to the £29,755 starting price of the Golf GTI Cabriolet, and drops it below the £38,237 Porsche charges for the entry-level Boxster.
A VW spokesman told us that the price was set by the factory in Germany mid-last year, before VW’s UK product team had its annual chance to negotiate the prices charged here.
However, the decision was taken to offer the car in the UK as a halo model for the Golf line-up, with VW UK deciding that the car should form part of the range, despite the price.
The new cost is “the price we’d have liked it to be, and where it should have been.”
The spokesman added that there are “a handful” of customers who have bought the R Cabriolet at the earlier asking price of £38,770 who will be refunded the difference.