Mk6 GTI 0-60mph

[ub7rm]

Hi Helios (favourite mk1 colour or mine),
Maybe VW fettled some of the launch mk5 GTIs? I have test driven a few and some are definately quicker than others. Mines not one of the quicker ones!!! The one I test drove before mine was definately a bit snappier off the line. Both were standard cars at the time.

I've heard that its common practise for press cars to be tweaked a bit from standard.  Nothing dramatic but the cars will be fettled a little to make them more review friendly.  After the first year VW removed a lot of nice little touches (like blue tinted glass, rear screen radio aerial, standard 10 speaker sound system etc) from the mk5's as a cost cutting excercise.  Call me cynical but I suspect the mk6 will have some refinements removed after the first year of production (journo's won't be interested in them by then).

[keelaw]

if thats the case, then the current MkVI press cars should be comparable to the MkV press cars tested.  i.e. MkV still quicker.

i'm not that fussed..... honest..... i can always chip it..... sob sob

[VWKev]

Have I missed something here, the mk5 is quicker than the mk6 now ?

[Rolfe]

News to me.

Rolfe.

[VWKev]

News to me.

Rolfe.

Me 2.

[gizzywizzy]

Edition 30 and Pirelli are faster I believe but the normal mk5 is no way faster!!!

[keelaw]

I'd better add, before you mk6'ers start peeing yourselves with excitement, that Volkswagen Driver got 0-60 in 6.3 seconds in the mk5 DSG (200BHP) and 5.6 seconds in a manual Scirocco 2.0 TSI. They managed to get a mk5 200bhp manual to 60 in 6.0 dead and and ED30 DSG to 60 in 5.9
Same test drivers probably done on the same track.

I'll also add that anyone who actually tries magazine style 0-60s in their own car is insane!!! They rev the nuts off the thing and shift gear with the brutality of a seal clubber. And seriously, can you really tell differences of tenths of a second in a brand new tight car?
It's the in gear times that  is of far more interest to me as it's real world stuff. Volkswagen Driver mag again tested the mk5 as quicker (just).

Apparently per VW driver, the Mk5 is faster than the Mk6 by abot 0.2 secs to 60mph.

[VWKev]

I'd better add, before you mk6'ers start peeing yourselves with excitement, that Volkswagen Driver got 0-60 in 6.3 seconds in the mk5 DSG (200BHP) and 5.6 seconds in a manual Scirocco 2.0 TSI. They managed to get a mk5 200bhp manual to 60 in 6.0 dead and and ED30 DSG to 60 in 5.9
Same test drivers probably done on the same track.

I'll also add that anyone who actually tries magazine style 0-60s in their own car is insane!!! They rev the nuts off the thing and shift gear with the brutality of a seal clubber. And seriously, can you really tell differences of tenths of a second in a brand new tight car?
It's the in gear times that  is of far more interest to me as it's real world stuff. Volkswagen Driver mag again tested the mk5 as quicker (just).

Apparently per VW driver, the Mk5 is faster than the Mk6 by abot 0.2 secs to 60mph.

Cool, what did they get when they done the same with the mk6 ?

[keelaw]

DSG MkV does 0-60 in 6.3 secs.  DSG MkVI does it in 6.5.

No figures for the manual MkVI yet, but the man MkV did it in 6.0 secs.

[VWKev]

DSG MkV does 0-60 in 6.3 secs.  DSG MkVI does it in 6.5.

No figures for the manual MkVI yet, but the man MkV did it in 6.0 secs.

Let me get this right...He tested the following cars that same day and got the following scores ?...

DSG mk5 - 6.3 secs
DSG mk6 - 6.5 secs
DSG ED30 - 5.9 secs
MAN mk5 - 6.0 secs
MAN Scirocco - 5.6 secs