Author Topic: *36 sec* Why the Golf GTi is better than the R *ironic*  (Read 20445 times)

Offline Wide

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This is why a bought the GTI instead of the R  :grin:....( little pressure of my wife..)   :grin: :grin:

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« Last Edit: 12 June 2017, 18:10 by Wide »
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Re: *36 sec* Why the Golf GTi is better than the R!!
« Reply #1 on: 11 June 2017, 09:46 »
Love the way the towing hook is integrated into the car like that.
I also really like your videos, I wouldn't know where to start doing something like that.
Keep em' coming :smiley:
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Re: *36 sec* Why the Golf GTi is better than the R!!
« Reply #2 on: 11 June 2017, 10:25 »
Love the way the towing hook is integrated into the car like that.
I also really like your videos, I wouldn't know where to start doing something like that.
Keep em' coming :smiley:

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Re: *36 sec* Why the Golf GTi is better than the R!!
« Reply #3 on: 11 June 2017, 11:09 »
It depends on how you define 'better.' Is 'more practical' better? The GTI can have that tow bar, has a bigger boot, will do more mpg, is cheaper to insure, has a smaller turning circle, less turbo lag, is lighter and therefore will have slightly sharper steering. I decided that all those things make the GTI a better daily driver for me.

However, the ultimate Golf is the Golf R. Being 4WD it has much better traction and is much, much faster.
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Re: *36 sec* Why the Golf GTi is better than the R!!
« Reply #4 on: 11 June 2017, 11:18 »
It depends on how you define 'better.' Is 'more practical' better? The GTI can have that tow bar, has a bigger boot, will do more mpg, is cheaper to insure, has a smaller turning circle, less turbo lag, is lighter and therefore will have slightly sharper steering. I decided that all those things make the GTI a better daily driver for me.

However, the ultimate Golf is the Golf R. Being 4WD it has much better traction and is much, much faster.

It was a joke because you can't fit a tow bar to an R.

or at least that's what I assumed, and assuming you still can't fit a tow bar to an R
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Re: *36 sec* Why the Golf GTi is better than the R!!
« Reply #5 on: 11 June 2017, 11:31 »
It depends on how you define 'better.' Is 'more practical' better? The GTI can have that tow bar, has a bigger boot, will do more mpg, is cheaper to insure, has a smaller turning circle, less turbo lag, is lighter and therefore will have slightly sharper steering. I decided that all those things make the GTI a better daily driver for me.

However, the ultimate Golf is the Golf R. Being 4WD it has much better traction and is much, much faster.

It was a joke because you can't fit a tow bar to an R.

or at least that's what I assumed, and assuming you still can't fit a tow bar to an R

Think you're right on the R and not being able to fit a tow bar Exonian. I don't think the R has type approval for towing and Towing Load Limits in the current brochure are blank for the R.
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Re: *36 sec* Why the Golf GTi is better than the R!!
« Reply #8 on: 11 June 2017, 11:49 »
Do you really want that on show all the time??
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Re: *36 sec* Why the Golf GTi is better than the R!!
« Reply #9 on: 11 June 2017, 11:52 »
Do you really want that on show all the time??

Like walking around with your flies undone?

Which goes to prove the point, Wide was right all along...
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