Hi Ollieb7,
As we all know, VW official stats vary from actual road test results.
What I can say is that Volkswagen Driver magazine is out this week and is road testing the edition 30 (unknown whether manual or DSG).
VW Driver always compares the test results with past test result of VW cars in its class, so they will almost definitely compare it with both the R32 and the standard GTI.
Looking into my back catalogue of mags the road test stats they use are:-
0-50
0-60
0-70
0-80
30-50 in3rd
0-50 in4th
50-70 in 3rd
50-70 in 4th
50-70 in 5th
50-70 in 6th
max speed
overall test fuel consumption
unladen weight
power to weight ratio
When they test drove the GTI DSG they only recorded test figures for 30-50 in 3rd and 50-70 in 3rd as both are registered in kickdown.
However they have already tested the standard GTI 4dr DSG, the R32 2dr DSG and the GTI2dr Manual and there are some interesting test results
R32(DSG) GTI(DSG) GTI(man)
0-50 4.6 4.7 4.5
0-60 5.8 6.3 6.0
30-50 2.6 2.3 3.0
50-70 3.1 3.3 3.4
If you add together the 30-50 and 50-70 times in third, the GTI DSG comes out top with 5.6 secs as opposed to the R32 DSG (5.7 secs) and the manual GTI (6.4 secs).
Unfortunately the one they do not do is a 30-70 through the gears, but I would suspect that you are right when looking at these results.
