Thanks, Watts, and Exonian - I know that you're the Forum wheel guru, I'm going to look back over your posts for inspiration.
It's the metallic grey, haven't got round to finding out what it's called yet. Plenty of other things to do, including drive it!
My initial thoughts? Overall, it's very impressive, like a GTI only more so in every respect that matters - the extra weight is the first thing that you notice, but that's largely taken care of by the increased power, which is in turn harnessed by a more taut feel to the chassis, and bigger brakes.
Many years ago I had the opportunity to drive a limited edition VW Motorsport MkII GTI, which had a supercharged 16v engine, and 4WD. I drove it for a magazine photo shoot, and at the time I felt that it was one of the best cars that I had ever driven. The R is definitely one of the best cars that I have ever owned - I had a Caterham, which is in a different league in terms of responsiveness and sheer performance, but that can't be compared to the R in any way.
I'm going to have a neighbour run his OBD diagnostic device on it, not that it feels as though there's anything wrong, but just to check for any fault codes, and have the suspension alignment checked. One rear disc has some scoring, mentioned on the first MOT, and if I decide to keep the wheels, I'll put a set of Michelin PS4's on them.
Otherwise, I'm just enjoying it. I'll put some pictures up as soon as real life stops getting in the way of the important stuff.
I think guru might be stretching it somewhat
To be honest the mk7 is such a shape that very few wheels designs actually improve upon the factory look and after all these years I still think the Pretoria is by far the best looking wheel fitted to the mk7, so much so that there are probably dozens of styles released in the last few years that I’ve not even noticed as I’ve completely taken my eyes off the ball.
When something is just *right* it’s when everything else in the field of vision just blurs out and that’s where I put the Pretoria style as far as wheels and mk7’s go.
My internal wheel encyclopaedia has slipped I’m afraid.
A set of Pretoria reps in a slightly more aggressive offset would in my opinion be the perfect addition to your car with the new tyre cost pretty much recouped from selling the Cadiz.
Or keep the Cadiz as full sized spares, which is what I’d likely do.
The car sounds a beauty btw Dr Mike.
The grey was called Limestone on the pre-FL cars and was changed to Indium in 2017 with the facelift launch.
The R is a great car and I can never understand why people say they’re dull to drive. Granted it’s impossible to use anywhere near all of the performance on the public roads but play to their strengths and they’re huge fun to drive. Not perfect but still not really bettered within the segment.
You are very privileged to have driven a G60 Limited! The car that spawned a whole generation to want to change the red mk2 GTI grille stripe to light blue!! From memory they were 210 bhp? That was the stuff dreams were made of back then and yet regular production GTI’s have been over that figure for more than 10 years.
Never mind temperamental Italian exotica, the G60 Limited was my dream car when I was in my ‘20s. I only ever saw a couple at Inters when it was at the TRL.
