Octavia vRS vs Mk 8 Golf GTI

[Guzzle]

Lease cost comparison

Petrol

VW Golf GTi DSG
3 year lease @ 10k miles p.a.
6+35 @ £340.43 per month
Standard colour Pure White
Total lease cost = £13,957.63

Skoda Octavia vRS 2.0 TSi DSG Hatch
3 year lease @ 10k miles p.a.
6+35 @ £297.32 per month
Standard colour Meteor Grey
Total lease cost = £12,190.12

Octavia is £1,767.51 cheaper than the Golf

Diesel

VW Golf GTD DSG
3 year lease @10k miles p.a.
6+35 @ £300.88 per month
Standard colour Pure White
Total lease cost = £12,336.08

Skoda Octavia vRS 2.0 TDi DSG Hatch
3 year lease @10k miles p.a.
6+35 @ £304.66 per month
Standard colour Meteor Grey
Total lease cost = £12,491.06

Golf is £154.98 cheaper than the Octavia.

All prices from What Car Leasing.

[Ubique]

https://youtu.be/sOks5XgMlvw

GTI vs ST vs VRS Drag race, quite funny and a bit of a result.

[Guzzle]

Didn't realise the ST was such a pudding.   

[Yusee]

Why is he always doing these drag races? What can a drag race tell you that a quick glance at a stats sheet can't?
I just googled him- he's from Walsall.
That would explain it.

[Guzzle]

That's the sort of thing YouTuber's do, innit? 

But I agree, they're of little help in the real world.

[Yusee]

To his credit he's smart, he understands his market and he entertains.
I suppose I just struggle to understand where the fun is.
Everyone seems to want cars to make them go as fast as possible- launch control, drag races, electronic wizardry to make you "drift".
Does nobody enjoy driving cars anymore?
It's like sitting in a roller coaster- bit of a thrill the first time. Second time quite fun. After that, just boring.

[Jim_mk7.5]

Why is he always doing these drag races? What can a drag race tell you that a quick glance at a stats sheet can't?
I just googled him- he's from Walsall.
That would explain it.

They are just some fun entertainment and they get an average of over a million views on every video so no doubt earning some good revenue from their YT channel.

Mat is funny and honest, he says what he does and doesn't like about the cars in the reviews as well.

Interesting that the Focus was so slow with supposedly 280bhp. And also that the new GTI did the 1/4 mile in 14.1 in cold winter conditions compared to the Mk7.5 GTI Performance which was 14.5 in the summer.

[SRGTD]

I enjoy Mat Watson’s videos, and his honest approach - saying what he thinks whether it pleases or not, and not feeling the need to suck up to the car manufacturers.

The videos with his mother in the car - as a nervous passenger or when she’s in the driver’s seat - are quite entertaining . She’s probably one of a small number of elderly ladies who’ve used launch control in a performance car!

[Yusee]

Yes, you’re both right about his videos.
I’m at that age where I’m starting to moan about stuff!
The interesting thing for me is the weight of the gti- seems a fair bit heavier than the outgoing model.

[fredgroves]

I suspect the gti was quicker than the old one due to the new high pressure injectors changing the power curve quite a bit. This is no longer the same.