VW Golf 7 R -- Chipped -- 0 to 60 in 4 Seconds...
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We've got one and run it alongside a 620bhp R35 GTR, Cayman R and S. Having come from an EVO x 330sst too
Test drove the immediate competition and have hooned some of their variants about on tracks etc.
I once had a company car VWBora2.8v6 4motion and it was sh*t, I hated GTI's just because I was a 205GTI 1.9er in my youth and I always thought they were overrated for mediocre performance.
It's a brilliant car - 5 doors, drives smoothly, roomy, comfortable, well apportioned, looks great. It handles, grips and goes like stink I am very surprised at how much I like it and how capable it is. Driving 4wd is different from both the rwd and fwd which have their appeals. The R simply digs in and goes. No scrambling, traction lights - just accomplished pace point to point. Sorry to the haters, but it's a good car and not expensive as a result of it's actual capability.
Test drove the immediate competition and have hooned some of their variants about on tracks etc.
I once had a company car VWBora2.8v6 4motion and it was sh*t, I hated GTI's just because I was a 205GTI 1.9er in my youth and I always thought they were overrated for mediocre performance.
It's a brilliant car - 5 doors, drives smoothly, roomy, comfortable, well apportioned, looks great. It handles, grips and goes like stink I am very surprised at how much I like it and how capable it is. Driving 4wd is different from both the rwd and fwd which have their appeals. The R simply digs in and goes. No scrambling, traction lights - just accomplished pace point to point. Sorry to the haters, but it's a good car and not expensive as a result of it's actual capability.
The Chris Harris video of the M235i vs Golf R is out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRYA1dsQBmY
I can’t subscribe (not available in europe) but it seems positive.
I can’t subscribe (not available in europe) but it seems positive.
I've seen it (so spoiler alert)
And he gives the 235 the nod, but very slightly and the feeling I was left with was that Chris would give the nod to the R over the 135. He says that this application of Haldex is the best and most fun he's ever driven, and slightly prefers the engine in the Golf than S3 for some reason. Not a bad showing for both cars though - pretty much as I expected.
And he gives the 235 the nod, but very slightly and the feeling I was left with was that Chris would give the nod to the R over the 135. He says that this application of Haldex is the best and most fun he's ever driven, and slightly prefers the engine in the Golf than S3 for some reason. Not a bad showing for both cars though - pretty much as I expected.
He answers 'is it fun' by doing a 4 wheel drift. Not really answering the question there! You can drift a turd.
In seriousness, I think he very clearly preferred the 235 but like all journos now won't ever criticise a VAG or BMW vehicle so says pretty much the same things about 2 very different cars.
In seriousness, I think he very clearly preferred the 235 but like all journos now won't ever criticise a VAG or BMW vehicle so says pretty much the same things about 2 very different cars.
personally i don't really give a s
t if it doesn't beat everything out there, if it's good enough to be in the running, or to split opinion then that's fine with me. I didn't buy it for bragging rights, i bought it because it's fast enough, fun enough, practical enough and cheap enough.
t if it doesn't beat everything out there, if it's good enough to be in the running, or to split opinion then that's fine with me. I didn't buy it for bragging rights, i bought it because it's fast enough, fun enough, practical enough and cheap enough.
lamboman100 said:
Hmmm...3 crap hatches and the Golf wins. Hardly makes it the best car of all time? ^ The VW Golf R Mk7 just keeps on beating everything in its class, and beyond.
This week, the VW Golf R beat the Porsche 911 and Nissan GTR -- in an authoritative Autocar test -- in the wet.
"Strong everywhere – under acceleration, braking and laterally – the Golf R is the ideal way to make a car for wet conditions. It goes, stops and grips like no other":
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/compari...
This week, the VW Golf R beat the Porsche 911 and Nissan GTR -- in an authoritative Autocar test -- in the wet.
"Strong everywhere – under acceleration, braking and laterally – the Golf R is the ideal way to make a car for wet conditions. It goes, stops and grips like no other":
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/compari...
lamboman100 said:
^ The VW Golf R Mk7 just keeps on beating everything in its class, and beyond.
This week, the VW Golf R beat the Porsche 911 and Nissan GTR -- in an authoritative Autocar test -- in the wet.
"Strong everywhere – under acceleration, braking and laterally – the Golf R is the ideal way to make a car for wet conditions. It goes, stops and grips like no other":
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/compari...
It doesn't matter, this lot will hate on the Golf no matter how well it does in the real world.This week, the VW Golf R beat the Porsche 911 and Nissan GTR -- in an authoritative Autocar test -- in the wet.
"Strong everywhere – under acceleration, braking and laterally – the Golf R is the ideal way to make a car for wet conditions. It goes, stops and grips like no other":
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/compari...
lamboman100 said:
^ The VW Golf R Mk7 just keeps on beating everything in its class, and beyond.
This week, the VW Golf R beat the Porsche 911 and Nissan GTR -- in an authoritative Autocar test -- in the wet.
"Strong everywhere – under acceleration, braking and laterally – the Golf R is the ideal way to make a car for wet conditions. It goes, stops and grips like no other":
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/compari...
And yet for fun, it appears to be beaten by a much slower Toyota, which I think it the issue people have with the R. Great car, just a bit, well, dull.This week, the VW Golf R beat the Porsche 911 and Nissan GTR -- in an authoritative Autocar test -- in the wet.
"Strong everywhere – under acceleration, braking and laterally – the Golf R is the ideal way to make a car for wet conditions. It goes, stops and grips like no other":
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/compari...
bodhi said:
lamboman100 said:
^ The VW Golf R Mk7 just keeps on beating everything in its class, and beyond.
This week, the VW Golf R beat the Porsche 911 and Nissan GTR -- in an authoritative Autocar test -- in the wet.
"Strong everywhere – under acceleration, braking and laterally – the Golf R is the ideal way to make a car for wet conditions. It goes, stops and grips like no other":
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/compari...
And yet for fun, it appears to be beaten by a much slower Toyota, which I think it the issue people have with the R. Great car, just a bit, well, dull.This week, the VW Golf R beat the Porsche 911 and Nissan GTR -- in an authoritative Autocar test -- in the wet.
"Strong everywhere – under acceleration, braking and laterally – the Golf R is the ideal way to make a car for wet conditions. It goes, stops and grips like no other":
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/compari...
I don't like AWD and I don't like 4-pot turbos, but I am a fair minded sort of bloke, so I'll give it a thumbs up or thumbs down on the following basis - would you take a longer but twister route at the end of a long day? Only fun cars pass that test.
I told my brother about these fabled lease deals, he has tried a few companies and not one has got back to him, actually one did but said 26 weeks delivery at the earliest.
I am warming to them but I do have a bit of a Golf aversion for some reason, might be that almost every house down our road has newish Golf.
I am warming to them but I do have a bit of a Golf aversion for some reason, might be that almost every house down our road has newish Golf.
J4CKO said:
I told my brother about these fabled lease deals, he has tried a few companies and not one has got back to him, actually one did but said 26 weeks delivery at the earliest.
I am warming to them but I do have a bit of a Golf aversion for some reason, might be that almost every house down our road has newish Golf.
Why are they fabled, lots of people have ordered them and lots have had them delivered? http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...I am warming to them but I do have a bit of a Golf aversion for some reason, might be that almost every house down our road has newish Golf.
Perhaps your brother hasn't tried hard enough. Walk into any VW dealership and by all accounts the fleet sales guys will beat the deals offered by the brokers.
Completely agree on the image front, but to me that's quite appealing - something that looks like a shopping car and putting out 300bhp, along with all the toys. Not that long ago my sister was driving an Alpina B3S running 330bhp and that was considered a very fast car despite the rather archaic auto box.
I ordered mine through Freedom Contracts and have had excellent service, however, by all accounts the VW guys will now beat the price I got, despite me thinking I'd got an absolute bargain. The savings are generally made in the £240 admin fee charged by the brokers, plus any monthly savings.
Yes, the delivery date is painful, but to me I'm happy to wait - the current car I drive ain't bad and it gives me a few months to save for the initial payment without eating into the money I'll release from selling my current car.
Yes, the delivery date is painful, but to me I'm happy to wait - the current car I drive ain't bad and it gives me a few months to save for the initial payment without eating into the money I'll release from selling my current car.
as soon as saw the Autocar question i knew what the answer would be. yeah you can argue its safe and predictable yadda yadda yadda but maybe the real question Autocar were asking was whats best for driving like an absolute cock end in antrocious conditions on give and take uk roads to arrive at the R as the answer.
most drivers can manage ice snow leaves wind rain and hail in yoyr average 1.3 shopper that is 2 wheel drive and puts out 50bhp
its just a vw flag waving ive got an R so ive got a personality.....autocar generally come down on the side of the top all round performer.
its about getting from a to b as fast as possible and if their honest the rest of the babble is just window dressing.
most drivers can manage ice snow leaves wind rain and hail in yoyr average 1.3 shopper that is 2 wheel drive and puts out 50bhp
its just a vw flag waving ive got an R so ive got a personality.....autocar generally come down on the side of the top all round performer.
its about getting from a to b as fast as possible and if their honest the rest of the babble is just window dressing.
Edited by ToothbrushMan on Thursday 23 October 07:24
Yet another award for the new Golf R Mk7.
Jeremy Clarkson, in The Sunday Times, today voting the R the best hot hatch of all time:
http://www.driving.co.uk/news/top-100-cars-2014-to...
Jeremy Clarkson, in The Sunday Times, today voting the R the best hot hatch of all time:
http://www.driving.co.uk/news/top-100-cars-2014-to...
lamboman100 said:
Yet another award for the new Golf R Mk7.
Jeremy Clarkson, in The Sunday Times, today voting the R the best hot hatch of all time:
http://www.driving.co.uk/news/top-100-cars-2014-to...
"Not my words Carol, the words of Top Gear magazine...hello?"Jeremy Clarkson, in The Sunday Times, today voting the R the best hot hatch of all time:
http://www.driving.co.uk/news/top-100-cars-2014-to...
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