Out of curiosity, if you were to be buying a used TCR now what kind of spec would you be looking for? Or would you take a Mk8 CS instead?
Ohh, good question!
Without wanting to drag Will’s thread off topic too much I’d say my personal preferences wouldn’t mirror many other people’s.
99% would probably want DCC, and now I have hindsight I wouldn’t. So I’d take either car so long as it didn’t have it.
Therefore I’m probably the last person to ask.
Many TCR’s were ordered in as dealer stock so had various mixtures of options added, I’ve no idea if the dealers had any say in it.
I see a TCR as a pretty special looking and feeling car which was pretty loaded with spec from the factory as a run out edition. Obviously the Akra holds huge interest but mine didn’t have it and it’s not something I’d worry about having either as the standard exhaust was specially tuned to make its own distinctive sound.
Dynaudio is excellent so I’d prefer one with that. Not a deal breaker though.
A black roof looks good but a wrap is an easy addition.
All of the options of wheel look good so I’d not worry about which it came with.
Mine had a heated front screen, it was ok but even as an early morning commuter in winter I still don’t miss it.
So I’m pretty flexible really. Boring eh?
Would I choose a mk8 Clubsport instead?
Well that depends on the cost difference.
The TCR is way better looking and very close on driving dynamics, so a well specced TCR for just a little less than a boggo Clubsport mk8 would be quite compelling.
A well specced TCR versus a specced up Clubsport mk8 and a big price differential and I’d take the TCR any time. At that sort of money I’d rather have a specced R or better still an Ed45 than a Clubsport optioned up.
That’s just me personally.
I kind of like the Clubsport without options as it seems more err, Clubsporty
As a model I like it for its extra driving dynamics over a regular GTI yet keeping relative simplicity (not easy in a tech laden modern car) which takes me back to my younger days where an enthusiast owner would buy a GTI and do a few tweaks to make it go a little better, handle a little better and look a tiny bit better than it left the factory. The Clubsport has those tweaks already done from the factory.
And as far as driving dynamics go then the mk8 Clubsport gets the nod. Just.
So it depends on what a prospective owner wants. Gadgets, luxury or simplicity.
I like the latter mostly.
Bugger, I did go a bit off topic there.
We all like different things. And sometimes what we think we like we end up finding out we don’t. And something we are not expecting to like we find we actually do, sometimes quite a lot.
