just taken my dads carrera 4s

[Komenda]

You must have bags of cement in your boot if it weigh's 1 1/2 ton.

Took the weight from the handbook.

[stevieC]

You must have bags of cement in your boot if it weigh's 1 1/2 ton.

Took the weight from the handbook.

GTi 1336kg, R32 1510kg.

[yan355]

To be objective ive just tried it again benchmarking between two points

RS6 same power to weight as 4s pretty much -  6mph faster over the given distance than my Gti with remap on.

Mates bringing his 997 2s round tomorrow night to double check

One thing i did think of - how accurate are VW Speedo's if mine says im doing 101mph is it accurate hence why my mates coming round if its not raining.

I expect from previous tussles that hell pull away about 2-4 cars lengths up to 100 keeping a safe between us

Ill let you know what happens cause its bugging me now
fortunately nice flat long starights with no junction near me

well see

you are right 997 much more sorted car - just given this benchmark I use I was stunned how fast the gti was.

[joesgti]

ahaa, it seems i may have been right in thinking that the torque is not much difference between the two cars, the carerra sounds amazing and handles like no other car i have driven (except f430 )

[Hurdy]

A GTI is 1336kg as a manual and 1355kg as a DSG

Edition 30 is around 15kg extra.

[08micsta]

I can pretty much belive what you say Joe.

We had a fall out... Cough Cough on holiday with a BMW M3 (ok fine its not a Porsche but its close) and with all due respect the M3 had nothing on the GTi.

He came flying from behind and swerved in front of us narrowly missing us and then kept trying to pass the car in front who would not let him pass (Gotta love drivers like that)

When the M3 finally got the chance my dad (with a boot full of luggage, a teengager, a wife and 2 kiddies not to metnion himself floored the GTi and passed the M3. This peeved the BM driver off. How can a "golf" pass a M3? So he floored it and my dad floored it and up a mountain pass in a really nice left hand bend my dad kept flooring it. The Bm could hardly keep up and you could see he was trying.

Even through the bends where you would expect the Bmw to pass cos of better traction etc even then he could not pass.

I can safely say that on a straight or a drag the GTi does not stand a chance. But against most cars (even a Merc SLK) the Gti just has the advantage. For its size and weight etc its absolutely perfect.

Viva la GTi!

[RandomJord]

Weight of boringness of this thread 32kg


Just to say, started off awesome then got very boring when you all decided to talk about weights of cars. just drive them for f**ks sake!

[Peskarik]

I can pretty much belive what you say Joe.

We had a fall out... Cough Cough on holiday with a BMW M3 (ok fine its not a Porsche but its close) and with all due respect the M3 had nothing on the GTi.

He came flying from behind and swerved in front of us narrowly missing us and then kept trying to pass the car in front who would not let him pass (Gotta love drivers like that)

When the M3 finally got the chance my dad (with a boot full of luggage, a teengager, a wife and 2 kiddies not to metnion himself floored the GTi and passed the M3. This peeved the BM driver off. How can a "golf" pass a M3? So he floored it and my dad floored it and up a mountain pass in a really nice left hand bend my dad kept flooring it. The Bm could hardly keep up and you could see he was trying.

Even through the bends where you would expect the Bmw to pass cos of better traction etc even then he could not pass.

I can safely say that on a straight or a drag the GTi does not stand a chance. But against most cars (even a Merc SLK) the Gti just has the advantage. For its size and weight etc its absolutely perfect.

Viva la GTi!

John-o, as a previous owner of E46 M3 would you care to comment? I find it hard to believe that loaded FWD GTI would be on par with RWD M3 that has more torques, more horsies, better steering and handling....   

[08micsta]

Nice. This could get interesting 

[Manu_R32]

Nice. This could get interesting 

Or it could get really really boring...lol