Clubsport S - Pictures - Inside & Out

[GT4]

Hi All

Heres the first pictures i have found of the CS-S Interior ... even though the car is grey and VW's own Press Car - I love the Interior - Pure GT3 ... 

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/96781/volkswagen-golf-gti-clubsport-s-uk-2016-review-pictures#0

Andrew

[Talk-torque]

Love that the Stop/Start button has been pushed! Even VW test drivers hate it! 

[scanesare]

Hi All

Heres the first pictures i have found of the CS-S Interior ... even though the car is grey and VW's own Press Car - I love the Interior - Pure GT3 ... 

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/96781/volkswagen-golf-gti-clubsport-s-uk-2016-review-pictures#0

Andrew

LOL, echo that

My first impressions when I went in, is that the only thing that comes close to the interior feeling is maybe a GT3. The alcantara bits and all the small touches really set it apart, just wait till you see it in the flesh 

Love that the Stop/Start button has been pushed! Even VW test drivers hate it! 

Start/Stop button gets deleted by bucket seats in both the CS and CS-S (well CS-S has them as standard anyway).

[vipergts]

sadly it's missing the cage

A cage would make the rear seat delete make more sense

[The ANT]

sadly it's missing the cage

A cage would make the rear seat delete make more sense

Yes and no, really it would just be dead weight, they wouldn't be fitting a proper cage in it even if there was one.

[drisser]

I am a bit disappointed on the clubsport, and definitely the S, they didn't fit better bespoke braking kit.  I mean if you can get monster front discs and Brembo calipers on the Seat Leon, they should have been standard kit on the Clubsport and S to set them apart from the GTi and R.

Those drilled discs with fairly puny looking calipers look a little bit too Halfords to me.  I'm sure they work well enough but it just stinks a little bit of profiteering / cost saving and some nice beefy red Brembo calipers would have really finished the "look" given all the nice alcantara and the bucket seats etc..

[scanesare]

I am a bit disappointed on the clubsport, and definitely the S, they didn't fit better bespoke braking kit.  I mean if you can get monster front discs and Brembo calipers on the Seat Leon, they should have been standard kit on the Clubsport and S to set them apart from the GTi and R.

Those drilled discs with fairly puny looking calipers look a little bit too Halfords to me.  I'm sure they work well enough but it just stinks a little bit of profiteering / cost saving and some nice beefy red Brembo calipers would have really finished the "look" given all the nice alcantara and the bucket seats etc..

To be honest I had the same thoughts for both the Clubsport and even more the S. But in braking tests it beats both the Brembo equipped Focus RS (which admittedly is 200kg heavier) and also the similar weight Type-R (that's a surprise). So it raises the question whether you really need bigger brakes and for what exactly. CS-S already benefits from lighter bells and track pads and after seeing its braking performance against the rest of the hatches I'm dropping the idea of a BBK for my Clubsport. Just a set of track pads and it should be fine for the 3-4 track-days per year I plan on doing.

[ashleyman]

How does removing the rear seats for weight, but leaving the front heated seats in make sense?

I'd have thought it would be all or nothing, heated + rear bench or normal seats and no bench.

[drisser]

I am a bit disappointed on the clubsport, and definitely the S, they didn't fit better bespoke braking kit.  I mean if you can get monster front discs and Brembo calipers on the Seat Leon, they should have been standard kit on the Clubsport and S to set them apart from the GTi and R.

Those drilled discs with fairly puny looking calipers look a little bit too Halfords to me.  I'm sure they work well enough but it just stinks a little bit of profiteering / cost saving and some nice beefy red Brembo calipers would have really finished the "look" given all the nice alcantara and the bucket seats etc..

To be honest I had the same thoughts for both the Clubsport and even more the S. But in braking tests it beats both the Brembo equipped Focus RS (which admittedly is 200kg heavier) and also the similar weight Type-R (that's a surprise). So it raises the question whether you really need bigger brakes and for what exactly. CS-S already benefits from lighter bells and track pads and after seeing its braking performance against the rest of the hatches I'm dropping the idea of a BBK for my Clubsport. Just a set of track pads and it should be fine for the 3-4 track-days per year I plan on doing.

Don't disagree - I am sure they did the maths on what was needed and how they work is more important than how they look, I just think it is a bit of a missed opportunity when a lot of the other kit is quite bespoke to the clubsport / S and some more bespoke brakes would have just given the cars that bit more exclusivity

[clubsport]

Looking at the brakes on the CS-S, the rears appeared to be ventilated and the same as the GTi PP upgrade, which I assume is the same as the R?

The only difference was the fronts, the caliper looked the same size as the PP, but the disc had a separate bell, rather than the regular solid vented disc and the obligatory "cooling" holes drilled. Both concessions to cooling and help toward the track intentions of the car.

Maybe it was a step too fat to fit a cage in 400 examples of the CS-S, in that the TUV paperwork would have been excessive.

Even though the cage would have been one of those creaky, half hearted Meccano bolt in affairs, it would have provided a solid structure to attach a 6 point harness too.