Some great h and info in these posts thanks good to hear from people who have made the swop must have been offered 2500 more for my GTI than this time last year! So I am very tempted to swop also keep looking at Golf R last of the mk7.5 s and BMW m135i X drive too. Not really sure what to do
I’m in the unfortunate position to have owned about half a dozen Mk7’s of varying performance and drivetrain configurations as well as an M135i X-Drive F40.
By unfortunate I mean as regards to my bank balance!
The 135i is quite a different beast to a Golf. Clearly BMW have benchmarked a Golf and A3 in its design but the engineering feels on a higher level than the VAG offerings in some respects, the solidity and interior quality are on another plane altogether.
The BMW steering is a lot more twitchy and the engine and gearbox feel more brawny but performance wise they’re all on about a par. Same with fuel economy.
All great cars, just in different ways.