The Golf R lease thread

[pgmoore2007]

Anyone got a link to this CVL deals on the Golf R?


thanks

[w8pmc]

pgmoore2007 said:

Anyone got a link to this CVL deals on the Golf R?


thanks

They've long gone i'm afraid (unless VW have released some more supported stock).

[simonwhite2000]

Richard Windrush said:

Hi, thought I'd just let you know that I have one Golf R Estate left on this campaign due to a cancelled order. Please feel free to contact me should you be interested.

Is this still available?

[ollie05]

simonwhite2000 said:

Is this still available?

Try him on this mate;

[e-mail]

Or 01753 670268

[Birdster]

Shambler said:

marcosgt said:

I must admit I'm just starting to get to grips with mine.

It's a stonkingly quick car and has impressive grip and good handling, although it seems to lack the pure balance of my RX8 (you can just about feel the power move around and counter the understeer) in the dry.

Amazingly sure footed in the wet (I'm hoping we get lots of snow this winter, it could be a lot of fun ) and reasonably refined.

I'm certainly happy enough with my decision (loving the boot space and the range too!), but I'm not sure it's a car I'm going to 'love'.

I think that may come, but with more time and experience.

M.

The golf R is not great in the snow. When the front loses grip it send power to the back and the back steps out. I fitted Nokian winter tyres and it was 100 times better. Couple of months left on my lease watch out for back brakes as they wear far quicker than the fronts. I had to replace rear pads and discs at 18,000 miles. Great car and enormous grip.

This is going to sound daft so stick with it and hopefully I can explain myself properly.

I've had mine since March, 3 door manual hatch and it's a great car, but just find I'm not gelling with it like I did my last car ,a Fiesta ST. Or even my MK1 MX5 that I took for a drive yesterday. With the R it's not like understeer in the traditional sense, as in you're not going in the direction you want and you're going straight ahead whilst turning, but I find myself on occasions having to adjust the steering input mid roundabout/bend on roads I drive regularly and know well. I know that sounds daft, but it's hard to describe. I could plant the ST perfectly, but with the Golf I find at times I need more steering input/correction at the same speeds as the other two cars, I'll make the change and it'll do as asked so grip/traction isn't a problem and I'm not carrying too much speed, maybe it's me not used to the front/rear drive. It seems better in individual mode with steering to normal rather than the car in Race mode. It's like I find it over assisted/heavy in Race and not as connected to the direction I want to go? Just me?

In this topic here: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=13...

a poster mentioned - "Everything about the car is fantastically well engineered and calibrated. The DSG is very impressive, throttle maps are good and the steering cal (considering it's EPAS) does a very good impression of HPAS (apart from the occasional bit of stickiness or catchup)."

That's probably the reason. I know the MX5 is regarded as a good handling/steering feel car by the majority, but not all and I know the ST is a smaller/lighter car so it's perhaps just my perception.

[simonwhite2000]

ollie05 said:

simonwhite2000 said:

Is this still available?

Try him on this mate;

[e-mail]

Or 01753 670268

Thanks mate - missed the boat sadly. Might mean I have to take the Leon 300 deal but it would be purely on the price cant say i really want the car given I had an R before a Leon will be a step down.

[ollie05]

simonwhite2000 said:

Thanks mate - missed the boat sadly. Might mean I have to take the Leon 300 deal but it would be purely on the price cant say i really want the car given I had an R before a Leon will be a step down.

Bugger! Nevermind! Hope your luck improves soon!

If it's any help, my mate just collected his 300, and loves it! Though he didn't quite come from and S5 or golf R!

[Richard Windrush]

I'm afraid the car has now been sold. If any more come my way, I'll be sure to post something on here.

[gazza5]

My mpg has been quite good considering the performance.

Motorway trips seem to get between 39 - 42 mpg, but these are fairly long trips, 50 miles + at motorway speeds.

Around town, get approx 30 - it changes all the time, sometimes 24 - some days 34. Stop start sometimes works sometime doesn't.

Just need to sort out my creaking doors / windows!

[trowelhead]

paralla said:

My R Estate from CVL is going to replace a 150bhp Diesel Tiguan as my daily driver. I haven't even seen a Golf Estate up close let alone an R, I guess it will be similar size inside as the Tig, just lower down. I convinced the other half it will be fine based on its practicality.

Looking forward to it but can't see it being more fun than my weekend car. Blast from Central London down to Rye and back today in the GT4.

Funny, i'm looking at a golf R as a daily.

I'm also driving a sapphire blue GT4

It's a nice 2 car garage!

[paralla]

trowelhead said:

Funny, i'm looking at a golf R as a daily.

I'm also driving a sapphire blue GT4

It's a nice 2 car garage!

GT4 and Golf R Estate have a lot of bases covered. Neither is great for my London work commute, thats where my Vespa GTS 250 comes in.

[Carl_Manchester]

after a couple of false starts I am (fairly) sure this is a VW Golf R 7.5 video with performance pack with the new trick Titanium exhaust.

Ignore the intro music at the beginning, it stops after 36 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxYHyZ8g4Xk

for a 4-pot OEM car, it sounds rather lovely.

[maccas99]

Carl_Manchester said:

after a couple of false starts I am (fairly) sure this is a VW Golf R 7.5 video with performance pack with the new trick Titanium exhaust.

Ignore the intro music at the beginning, it stops after 36 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxYHyZ8g4Xk

for a 4-pot OEM car, it sounds rather lovely.

Quite possibly the worst car video ever! Overlayed engine noises completely out of sync with the video coupled with some tt who doesn't know how to drive as he's braking mid corner and just fannying about!

[likesachange]

maccas99 said:

Quite possibly the worst car video ever! Overlayed engine noises completely out of sync with the video coupled with some tt who doesn't know how to drive as he's braking mid corner and just fannying about!

What I thought too.....

[ashleyman]

maccas99 said:

Quite possibly the worst car video ever! Overlayed engine noises completely out of sync with the video coupled with some tt who doesn't know how to drive as he's braking mid corner and just fannying about!

I think this might be a video pre-production or something... Certainly isn't a finished product.

[jcosh]

trowelhead said:

paralla said:

My R Estate from CVL is going to replace a 150bhp Diesel Tiguan as my daily driver. I haven't even seen a Golf Estate up close let alone an R, I guess it will be similar size inside as the Tig, just lower down. I convinced the other half it will be fine based on its practicality.

Looking forward to it but can't see it being more fun than my weekend car. Blast from Central London down to Rye and back today in the GT4.

Funny, i'm looking at a golf R as a daily.

I'm also driving a sapphire blue GT4

It's a nice 2 car garage!

Snap. GT4 in the garage. Golf R Estate arriving in a few months as the daily. It will replace 640d BMW so should be a bit differnet.

[ashleyman]

Tried out a long motorway journey today without using cruise control. I drove from South London to Sheffield Town Centre, all 200 miles of it without using cruise control. I did use the speed limiter for the 50 road works sections but that works differently to cruise control.

I got a huge 39.5 MPG. Thats the highest MPG I've ever seen on a motorway run. I'm impressed but at the same time disappointed as using Cruise is jus so much easier!! I plan to do the return journey with cruise to see if there's a significant difference.

[ToothbrushMan]

digimeistter said:

£273 pcm fully maintained.

I would happily pay £500 pcm for it! It's a joy to live with

do you want to send me the £227 extra every month then ?

[marcosgt]

ashleyman said:

Tried out a long motorway journey today without using cruise control. I drove from South London to Sheffield Town Centre, all 200 miles of it without using cruise control. I did use the speed limiter for the 50 road works sections but that works differently to cruise control.

I got a huge 39.5 MPG. Thats the highest MPG I've ever seen on a motorway run. I'm impressed but at the same time disappointed as using Cruise is jus so much easier!! I plan to do the return journey with cruise to see if there's a significant difference.

Saw 40.X (can't remember the exact number .2 or .3 I think) on a gentle run down to Southampton from Fleet, last Saturday.

I set off early expecting holiday crowds, for a 9:30 training course, but found the roads remarkably quiet, so I just stuck it in Economy and the limiter on 72 and the result was over 40 MPG!

Driving a bit more 'enthusiastically' last night I got around 31 on a round trip to Guildford.

Driven hard it's no better (low 20s) than my RX8 was, but that delivered low 20s all the time!

M

PS Are you supposed to take Golf Rs in for an early check? I've done nearly 2K miles now.

[Tom-M]

I'm amazed you guys are reporting over 40MPG.

We've done around 4,500 miles in ours now - Around half each - I enjoy driving, but mostly do motorway down the M3 in the 50 zone - and my misses mostly does 15 miles each way down NSL single carriage - she drives like a granny and refuses to use cruise - there's been the odd 120 mile motorway journey to see family.

Overall MPG on the car is 29.8 over those 4,500 miles. Looking at signatures on the Golf-R VW forums seems to indicate this is about average for most users.

Edit : Just to say, the car is _always_ in race mode - we trailed 'eco' mode for a few weeks and it made 0 different on the MPG over a few tanks of fuel.