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Offline Yusee

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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #60 on: 10 February 2021, 16:05 »
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1st division footballers?! I’m guessing you haven’t followed football for a while 😂
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #61 on: 10 February 2021, 16:36 »
Quote from: Yusee on 10 February 2021, 16:05
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1st division footballers?! I’m guessing you haven’t followed football for a while 😂

I’m old fashioned, what’s all this EFL nonsense anyway?!  :grin:
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #62 on: 10 February 2021, 17:21 »
Haha, yeah I agree. I haven’t followed football since Saint and Greavsie were on
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #63 on: 10 February 2021, 17:30 »
If you have your own chauffeaur to polish your car, order black.

Otherwise you will just look like a total dirtbag whenever you arrive somewhere.

None of the R colours bode well for trying to minimise dirty looking cars though. I guess after you've spent that much money on it it will never leave the garage so it probably doesn't matter anyway.
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #64 on: 10 February 2021, 18:53 »
Quote from: Exonian on 10 February 2021, 15:42
How the hell is anyone even able to afford a sporty Golf in Ireland with those horrific car taxes?
Kind of makes the £475 a year ‘luxury tax’ look like peanuts.

Good question!
The MK7 / MK7.5 R was actually a really big seller here. I bought one myself and at that time you could get one for approx €45k and on a 3 year low-rate PCP, it was reasonably affordable and definitely well outstripped the GTI in terms of sales here.

5 years later, the equivalent car is the bones of €20K more - large part of that is due to taxes but a significant part of it is down to VW too as they've hiked prices significantly over the last few years. A €64K car is very very expensive, even on low rate PCP, so it'll be interesting to see how many MK8's will shift here. They'll surely be a much rarer car than before.


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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #65 on: 25 February 2021, 21:31 »
How about the inevitable drag race...

https://youtu.be/HmANHSVPEpo
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #66 on: 25 February 2021, 22:33 »
Quote from: fredgroves on 25 February 2021, 21:31
How about the inevitable drag race...

https://youtu.be/HmANHSVPEpo

To keep the Football Analogy going, this the (Golf) crowd would chanting Easy Easy Easy

Followed by “Can we drag race you every week”


Does seem to have some go and....well don’t want to spoil the result 😂😂
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #67 on: 25 February 2021, 22:49 »
Quote from: AndyGTI on 25 February 2021, 22:33
Quote from: fredgroves on 25 February 2021, 21:31
How about the inevitable drag race...

https://youtu.be/HmANHSVPEpo

To keep the Football Analogy going, this the (Golf) crowd would chanting Easy Easy Easy

Followed by “Can we drag race you every week”


Does seem to have some go and....well don’t want to spoil the result 😂😂

Wasn't expecting that  :shocked:
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #68 on: 26 February 2021, 07:31 »
Its a hell of a performance, more than you would expect for the ~ 14 extra horsepower. 
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #69 on: 26 February 2021, 08:58 »
Something to do with vdm vectoring maybe?
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