I had my GTI for now 2 weeks and it really made me miss my MK7 Sportwagen.
I got her in 2017 from the same dealership and i leased her with 0.99% for 36 months and nothing down. Monthly it was like a hair over 400 bucks. i recall MSRP was 32k for the mid trim. No fancy LED lights, and no leather, but it came with the huge pano roof and pleather.
Me and tiny went car camping a few times (she only went once and then bitched non stop about how stupid that was) and i really loved this wagon. I was able to sleep comfortably inside it, moved a TV console/dresser with it, and it got great gas mileage.
Engine was a bit buzzy and tractor like downlow, but it had plenty of power from the EA888 1.8L engine. Never left like it was lacking power. if anything it felt faster than my current GTI due to 4motion + DSG. 4 motion was great in the snow too. Took that little sucker everywhere.
Only one time it got stuck when i highsided it on the beach and a Tacoma bro had to pull me out.
It had some typical VW issues though:
DSG lurched and jerked sometimes. it also would occasionally gear hunt. They said the shifts was suppose to be fast, but it never felt THAT much quicker than a traditional automatic from toyota.
That panoroofed leaked twice. First time they replaced the entire headliner and it was in the shop for 2 weeks. 2nd time they replaced the headliner again and tried to do something about these drain hoses that kept clogging up. Never fully solved it. Im sure it would have leaked some more after the warranty is up. It also failed to close one time too and i had to drive around for 2 day with the roof open.
Otherwise it was a good little car! when i returned her to the dealership i was initially going to buy her out even with the problems (sunroof, dsg) but then they offered me 4k cash to NOT buy it out and sell it to them as the buyout was something like 16k and they could have easily sold the car for 25k at that point.