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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: mrjoe on 30 September 2009, 13:42
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ok here's a video of a test drive on track of the mk6 gti...
they are speaking in italian, but doesn't matter what they say (basically saying there is an abyss between the handling of the mk5 and 6, being the latter the better one)
But listen to the sound!! ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRY3SVWFOgk
skip to 1:00 minute for the video
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Nice clip (once the silly James Bond music has finished). Yep, the MkVI GTI does sound good :smiley:
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I note that all the track cars are wearing 17''ers. Reminds me of that Evo mag tyre test for the mk5 GTI a few years ago where they said it was quicker on 17s round the track. Just thought I'd open up that can of worms again.
It does sound good in the vid though, I'm sure mine doesn't sound that good. Maybe the left hand drivers have a different induction system just like the LHD mk5 did.
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4 the wheels: YES with 17 inches you go faster around the track
4 the sound: it sound unlikely that the place where the wheel is, will influence the "bassline"
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flick through to 6:02 :sick:
much use of the escape road between one of the chicances, but i'd like a go on that track
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4 the sound: it sound unlikely that the place where the wheel is, will influence the "bassline"
On RHD mk5 GTIs the steering column is in a 'bad place' in the engine bay meaning the air inlet is different to LHD cars which had a tuned induction sound. It is probably very similar in the mk6. I have only looked under the bonnet of my mk6 once and I notice that it looks quite different to the mk5 I had before.
Maybe I don't drive mine hard enough to get a decent exhaust noise. How hard do you have to be driving for the electronic exhaust amplifier thingy to work?
The thing I hear most when I'm driving is my door seals twittering. :angry:
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How hard do you have to be driving for the electronic exhaust amplifier thingy to work?
Whats one of those?
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flick through to 6:02 :sick:
much use of the escape road between one of the chicances, but i'd like a go on that track
lol at your sig :laugh:
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I'm not a fan of DSG or put another way I prefer manual and being fully in control but that video certainly shows the benefits of DSG while cornering hard and repeatedly. He would have struggled to corner like that and shift at the same time.
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I'm not a fan of DSG or put another way I prefer manual and being fully in control but that video certainly shows the benefits of DSG while cornering hard and repeatedly. He would have struggled to corner like that and shift at the same time.
That is the only time DSG would be of any benefit. Unfortunately we dont drive on tracks like that every day. Manual is only hunderedths of seconds slower than DSG, it will also depend on the driver.
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I'm not a fan of DSG or put another way I prefer manual and being fully in control but that video certainly shows the benefits of DSG while cornering hard and repeatedly. He would have struggled to corner like that and shift at the same time.
That is the only time DSG would be of any benefit. Unfortunately we dont drive on tracks like that every day. Manual is only hunderedths of seconds slower than DSG, it will also depend on the driver.
You are wrong.
As we enlightened people can tell you DSG is the same as having an extra 100 bhp under your right foot.
The only reason to buy the manual version is to save £1,300, and that will be the worst penny pinching of your life.
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True, DSG is the future, is better than manual in traffic jams, on track, and imo also on the motorway.
I have friends that say that DSG is not fun, but i beg the differ... im not a professional pilot and I would never shift manually even closer to a DSG... and the prompt acceleration that you get with DSG is orgamsmic! altought I give you that if you are a "hand brake turn a la Russ Swift" type of driver, the "extra" pedal is useful
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I'm not a fan of DSG or put another way I prefer manual and being fully in control but that video certainly shows the benefits of DSG while cornering hard and repeatedly. He would have struggled to corner like that and shift at the same time.
That is the only time DSG would be of any benefit. Unfortunately we dont drive on tracks like that every day. Manual is only hunderedths of seconds slower than DSG, it will also depend on the driver.
You are wrong.
As we enlightened people can tell you DSG is the same as having an extra 100 bhp under your right foot.
The only reason to buy the manual version is to save £1,300, and that will be the worst penny pinching of your life.
As your enlightened, could you take your enlightened nob and shuv it up your ass ?
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As we enlightened people can tell you DSG is the same as having an extra 100 bhp under your right foot.
:grin: :grin: wtf?! are you for real?! wake up dude and get back in the real world. actually, don't. your wild and ridiculous statements crack me up :laugh:
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As we enlightened people can tell you DSG is the same as having an extra 100 bhp under your right foot.
The only reason to buy the manual version is to save £1,300, and that will be the worst penny pinching of your life.
ha ha ha if what you say is true, I would have paid GBP1,300 for the DSG. Shame what you say is as fairy tale as your nick... in the realm of magic and fantasy.
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As we enlightened people can tell you DSG is the same as having an extra 100 bhp under your right foot.
The only reason to buy the manual version is to save £1,300, and that will be the worst penny pinching of your life.
ha ha ha if what you say is true, I would have paid GBP1,300 for the DSG. Shame what you say is as fairy tale as your nick... in the realm of magic and fantasy.
Oh no, not DSG again so soon. There is a highly entertaining, occasionally relevent and sometimes even informative 38 page thread on this here:
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=122285.0 (http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=122285.0)
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did not mean to stard a DSG vs manual debate.... but the video shows how the car handles well in tight corners at speed