New GTI owners, how you finding your performance??

[Simon C]

Some cool comments today fellas - nice one.

One of the lads at work was admiring mine at work today. Obviously he is a bit of a car fanatic as he has been asking me about it ever since ordered. Back in the office I shocked him when I asked him if he fancied a blast. So of we went for a cheeky 5 miles! I even felt brave and gave him the keys 

Needless to say he came back buzzin his t@ts off. Probably helped by me sticking it in sports mode for him and him then getting upto 4,000 rpm.

Think I have a mate for life their and I made his day 

[Mike S]

I don't normally get sucked into really silly stuff (I need my car for my job and there are also far too many unmarked police cars about these days !) but I had some fun with a BMW 3 Series coming home this evening. Traffic lights changed to green at the start of a dual carriageway as we were both rolling slowly towards them. The BMW floored it. I bit but then I had to short shift in the first two gears as I was spinning up on the damp road ! Once full traction (in 3rd but still having to "feed" the power in) was achieved the BMW became very small in my rear view mirror very quickly   

[Brenbo]

I think it's a primal instinct to get one over those who think they are something special because they have a big BMW, Porsche, Audi etc,. 

[Mark V GTD]

Simon C - your signature says your car has arrived - was it two months earlier than you were originaly advised?

[Simon C]

Simon C - your signature says your car has arrived - was it two months earlier than you were originaly advised?

Yes mate, originally end dec, then late jan and late February. Then advised back to late jan and out of the blue I got a call saying 23rd December. So a nice early Xmas present.

[matchboy]

Now mine is broken in (done 4k miles nearly), I'm very impressed with the performance.  Once you hit the 2.5-3k revs it really starts to pull, and keeps on going even up to the red line.

As far as looks go, I took a couple of my mates out over Xmas who hadn't seen it - one of them (he's only 24) was raving 'this is the best car I've ever been in' and they loved it - particularly as I was nailing it