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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: jv on 22 May 2015, 12:57

Title: Things be getting interesting... Clubsport and R400 testing
Post by: jv on 22 May 2015, 12:57
Now I thought the 'Clubsport' name was going to be little more than a badge but this is starting to sound good:

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-germancars/golf-r-400-and-gti-clubsport-spotted/32219

If they could focus on some weight loss too...  :smiley:
Title: Re: Things be getting interesting... Clubsport and R400 testing
Post by: monkeyhanger on 22 May 2015, 13:17
Quote from: jv on 22 May 2015, 12:57
Now I thought the 'Clubsport' name was going to be little more than a badge but this is starting to sound good:

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-germancars/golf-r-400-and-gti-clubsport-spotted/32219

If they could focus on some weight loss too...  :smiley:

I saw those "wavy" brake discs they describe when I saw the RS3 in the flesh at Berlin's VW Forum centre. wavy circumference like a very blunt cog and drilled out - as brakes go they looked great.
Title: Re: Things be getting interesting... Clubsport and R400 testing
Post by: Booth11 on 22 May 2015, 13:19
That does look interesting.  I hope those things are options and it doesn't get watered down into some meaningless compromise car.
Title: Re: Things be getting interesting... Clubsport and R400 testing
Post by: wigit on 22 May 2015, 14:10
In both of these cases I would not got mad on the spec sheet, prob nav and dsg, in some ways the stripped out half gaged Clupsport appeals more as a car to hoon, just wish VW had the """"" to do that on a R400

My view with either would be not to go for DCC and ket some Bilstein B16s on
Title: Re: Things be getting interesting... Clubsport and R400 testing
Post by: Mr_Orange on 22 May 2015, 15:57
400 bhp = yes!
That rear spoiler = no!
Title: Re: Things be getting interesting... Clubsport and R400 testing
Post by: Max Q on 22 May 2015, 16:20
Quote from: Mr_Orange on 22 May 2015, 15:57
400 bhp = yes!
That rear spoiler = no!

Agreed! That rear spoiler would be a no go for me. :sick:
Title: Re: Things be getting interesting... Clubsport and R400 testing
Post by: monkeyhanger on 22 May 2015, 17:53
Quote from: Booth11 on 22 May 2015, 13:19
That does look interesting.  I hope those things are options and it doesn't get watered down into some meaningless compromise car.

Only wavy discs on the front for the RS3. I just had another look at the Berlin pictures I took at the VW forum of the RS3, and only took a wheel close up of the rear wheel (it is an ugly wheel) - those discs are round (and not drilled). The fronts were definitely as described though and thought they looked pretty smart at the time. No Bridgestones though!

(http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j381/monkeyhanger710/IMAG0447.jpg)
Title: Re: Things be getting interesting... Clubsport and R400 testing
Post by: wigit on 22 May 2015, 18:49
The ring mule looks like its on Michelin Sport Pilot Cups 2 for the R400
Title: Re: Things be getting interesting... Clubsport and R400 testing
Post by: Booth11 on 22 May 2015, 19:05
Quote from: monkeyhanger on 22 May 2015, 17:53
(it is an ugly wheel)

(http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j381/monkeyhanger710/IMAG0447.jpg)

The younger and uglier sibling of the Glendale  :laugh:

Quote from: monkeyhanger on 22 May 2015, 17:53
No Bridgestones though!

Quote from: wigit on 22 May 2015, 18:49
The ring mule looks like its on Michelin Sport Pilot Cups 2 for the R400

So you've got to buy an R400 to get a decent set of tyres on a VW these days  :whistle: