Golf GTTsi soon to be released!

[martinb]

Anyone heard about the new golf gttsi? was chatting to a mate of mine who works as a sales manager for vw and he says they are due to be released soon! basically its a 1.4 mk5 with a supercharger and a turbo pushing out about 170bhp! sounds way cool!

[Dom Mk3]

or you could buy a less stressed gti with less bits to break down and more power...

I thought this car was an exercise not a production model?

[Fielder5757]

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/previews/59942/volkswagen_golf_gt_tsi.html

Apparentally it will be produced.

So whos up for taking the supercharger and turbo charger setup off one of these and dropping it onto a V5 motor? 

[jv]

and more:
http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/publish/volkswagen_news/article_1496.shtml

[Sugar79]

why a 1.4??? i cant see the engine putting up with much abuse, why not do that to a 1.8 or 2.0 engine??

[martinb]

cheap tax and supposedly good fuel economy? wonder how much it will cost?

[Dom Mk3]

thinking about it seems like a good alternative to a gti if you do mostly city driving?

[DubFan]

Anything under a 1.5 is the lower tax bracket.
That article quotes econmy at 39.2mpg, but surely thats not the case if you're pushing it.

This is a new engine, not a standard 1.4, so hopefully they've designed it to take the extra pressure of super and turbo charging it.

It's like getting decent power out of the rotary engine in the RX8 which is a 1.3l, so has cheap tax, but has a nice amount of power (but apparently fuel economy is rubbish).

It'd be interesting to see what insurance would be like because some companies look purely at the engine size rather than the BHP.

And presumably it'll cost less than the 200BHP Mk5 GTI, so it'll appeal to people with less money and get them a car with good performance but without paying as much.

[Fielder5757]

why a 1.4??? i cant see the engine putting up with much abuse, why not do that to a 1.8 or 2.0 engine??

a friend of mine has a 1.4 R5 turbo running 24psi of boost and putting 300BHP to the tarmac. he used to be a pit crew machanic and knows how to build a motor but it still blows every 3,000 miles. I dont see how a puny 1.4 will handle a turbo and supercharger, However the Wolfburg boys did turn smokey diesels into power houses so im sure they can manage this!

[golfpro]

i think its a quality idea.

Think its really clever how they can get that much power out of such a small engine. Presumably being a smaller engine its goin to be lighter too so it will feel faster!?!