« Reply #55 on: 13 May 2015, 15:08 »
I agree never great when they use the "clubsport" name in vain! 
You have to consider their motive, when the product doesn't quite match the marketing perception?
(Long term username from serial Porsche CS ownership).
I guess as VW own Porsche they know they're not infringing on any copy-writes!
I'd guess that at the project's inception it was a proper Clubsport model and if you google GTI Club Sport you'll see red mk7 GTI with black Talladegas that VW used as a test mule for this model last year. It has on it some hideous rear spoiler which is obviously disguised and a front splitter which will both likely make it onto this model. This car might have originally been intended as a lightweight version which would share lighter panels with the R400 but maybe cost got in the way? The CS would tread on the R's toes price wise and certainly performance wise.
I still haven't seen any photos of the car which will be released at Worthersee in the next day or so if not already.
So yes, just a marketing exercise to whet appetites and get the GTI name back in circulation in this fickle commercial world we live in before the R takes over again when the 400/420 comes on stream. I think with the GTI CS/ED40 it hints at maybe why there's confusion over the R400/420 as there could well be an over-boost feature on the R400 that takes it up to 420 for brief squirts?
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