Vr6 I agree with you that the manual does show the 0-60 as 10.0 seconds, however I dispute this figure for the following reasons:
- The VW Brochure and Specifications listings for the 1990 range, list the 0-60 as 8.3 seconds.
- Nearly every other resource for information regarding the GTI I've come across, list's 0-60 times in the early 8's (I can dig some out if required).
- If you do the maths based purely on power to weight ratio (not even taking into account that torque to weight between the 8v & 16v is almost identical) the 0-60 should be lower.
- Many other owners will confirm 0-60 times of well under 10 seconds.
- And most importantly I have actually tried some 0-60 runs in the real world with a passenger recording time taken using a stop watch.
While I'm basing my argument on multiple sources, you however are only basing your opinion on one single piece of evidence, namely the owners manual which could be wrong, you even said yourself 'I don't dispute that it is faster than that'.
I'm not some kid (far from it unfortunately) who's blindly arguing that black is white, while I get the impression that even if I took you out in my standard Golf and proved it to you, you'd probably still wouldn't except it and instead try and say I'd made modifications that I haven't told you about....
