Saw a white one yesterday (not a GTI though) it looked good actually. I think some design touches are too far, the red str.ipe in the lights? Red stripe in door cards?? Queue some chav copy mods any folk chopping up their interiors to copy the look. That said, the new specs of the GTI, especially the performance version which for about another grand gets a LSD sounds like a usable addition, and the economy is allegedly 15% better, nigh on 45mpg I think.