Well, after two months, I'm FINALLY driving my new 06 HCH, silver with nav. Delivered last night (4/5), VIN is 12,274... purchased for MSRP on 3/1 (paid in full, prior to delivery so registration could be submitted for carpool stickers).

Unfortunately, my dealer messed up by delaying submission of the registration to DMV. As a result, my California carpool sticker application (submitted on 3/8) was rejected. I'll now have to wait ANOTHER month for that . I complained that they've had my $$$ for a month, and my warranty period started on 3/1, and the only thing they were supposed to do, they messed up on! They owe me an answer. At the very least, they should be able to adjust my warranty start date to true delivery date (yesterday).

At least I'm driving it now, and it's great! I had never even test driven one (none were ever available at my dealer in So. Cal). Great to finally see and feel all the things which I read about in these forum posts.

Initial impression, after only 25 miles... it's a great car. The Nav system is amazing, but I have a LOT to learn regarding the voice commands.

MPG currently shows only 25 MPG, but that's because of the pre-delivery inspection and intial testing. Hopefully I'll be in the upper 40's (or better) by the time this tank is finished!

I'm driving it to San Diego tonight, so I'll get some decent time to play with things.