VW Golf 7 R -- Chipped -- 0 to 60 in 4 Seconds...

VW Golf 7 R -- Chipped -- 0 to 60 in 4 Seconds...

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iphonedyou

9,262 posts

158 months

Wednesday 6th April 2016
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What is it with the cupholders!? (Assuming the Scirocco R holders the same - total st.)

They don't actually hold anything.

Tuvra

7,921 posts

226 months

Wednesday 6th April 2016
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iphonedyou said:
What is it with the cupholders!? (Assuming the Scirocco R holders the same - total st.)

They don't actually hold anything.
They must be different, cup holders in the Golf are brilliant, it has retractable lugs that "grip" your cup firmly:-



Edited by Tuvra on Wednesday 6th April 08:57

iphonedyou

9,262 posts

158 months

Wednesday 6th April 2016
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No, they look the same. Perhaps I've just been using them wrongly!

Tuvra

7,921 posts

226 months

Wednesday 6th April 2016
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Strange, the only thing I've ever had issue with is Red Bull due to the thin size of the can, with coffee cups you have to fight the bds to release when driving punch

br d

8,403 posts

227 months

Wednesday 6th April 2016
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Actually I lied.
The cup holders are probably the worst thing on a 650S.

Can you spot them?



They are tucked right under the center console, god knows how you are supposed to get a steaming hot cup of tea in and out of there without making a mess!

This is why mine just end up holding loose change.


ORD

18,120 posts

128 months

Wednesday 6th April 2016
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That settles it. st car.

Pixelpeep7r

8,600 posts

143 months

Thursday 7th April 2016
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br d said:
Actually I lied.
The cup holders are probably the worst thing on a 650S.

Can you spot them?



They are tucked right under the center console, god knows how you are supposed to get a steaming hot cup of tea in and out of there without making a mess!

This is why mine just end up holding loose change.

First world problems and all that smile

mikey k

13,012 posts

217 months

Thursday 7th April 2016
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No idea how that got past McRon hehe

coppice

8,644 posts

145 months

Thursday 7th April 2016
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There is an inquiry going on as we speak at Woking's MTC into , as Ronzo puts it - 'the challenges presented by sub optimal beverage retention dynamics and the intervention required to effect a harmonious synergy between functionality and aesthetic deliverables .Furthermore, timely deployment of.... ' (continues on page 89)

Edited by coppice on Thursday 7th April 17:57

JockySteer

1,407 posts

117 months

Thursday 7th April 2016
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br d said:
Actually I lied.
The cup holders are probably the worst thing on a 650S.

Can you spot them?



They are tucked right under the center console, god knows how you are supposed to get a steaming hot cup of tea in and out of there without making a mess!

This is why mine just end up holding loose change.

I think I could learn to live with that little problem to be honest if it was my car..

br d

8,403 posts

227 months

Thursday 7th April 2016
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JockySteer said:
br d said:
Actually I lied.
The cup holders are probably the worst thing on a 650S.

Can you spot them?



They are tucked right under the center console, god knows how you are supposed to get a steaming hot cup of tea in and out of there without making a mess!

This is why mine just end up holding loose change.

I think I could learn to live with that little problem to be honest if it was my car..
Well you say that now Jocky but I'm sure you'd feel very differently if you had to suffer it, honestly the whole affair has left me quite distraught.



J4CKO

41,677 posts

201 months

Thursday 7th April 2016
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br d said:
JockySteer said:
br d said:
Actually I lied.
The cup holders are probably the worst thing on a 650S.

Can you spot them?



They are tucked right under the center console, god knows how you are supposed to get a steaming hot cup of tea in and out of there without making a mess!

This is why mine just end up holding loose change.

I think I could learn to live with that little problem to be honest if it was my car..
Well you say that now Jocky but I'm sure you'd feel very differently if you had to suffer it, honestly the whole affair has left me quite distraught.
God, thats terrible, and getting mullered by Golf R's to add insult to injury.

br d

8,403 posts

227 months

Thursday 7th April 2016
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J4CKO said:
God, thats terrible, and getting mullered by Golf R's to add insult to injury.
Every time I get in it Jacko.
Owning Supercars just isn't fun any more.

JockySteer

1,407 posts

117 months

Friday 8th April 2016
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br d said:
Every time I get in it Jacko.
Owning Supercars just isn't fun any more.
Chop it in for a Golf R then. I hear they're quite the McLaren slayer around a twisty circuit..
Even more so if the Golf is a manual! wink

DukeDickson

4,721 posts

214 months

Saturday 9th April 2016
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JockySteer said:
br d said:
Every time I get in it Jacko.
Owning Supercars just isn't fun any more.
Chop it in for a Golf R then. I hear they're quite the McLaren slayer around a twisty circuit..
Even more so if the Golf is a manual! wink
A little equivalent of a cheeky line for the Golf & the universe is someone's. Q would lust for one.


Shame a good car (or certainly good in most principles) is being trashed by all sorts of other stuff. However, that's the way of the world.