MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: illyun on December 20, 2008, 08:48:34 pm
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Right, initial impressions - considering I have driven it like an 80 year old OAP back home - is that it feels less hardcore, softer and manic than my Edition 30. Its weird because I remember when I changed my 06 plate GTI for a new 56 plate R32 and I remember it being a harsher ride and more urgent. Of course, to be fair, I have spent in excess of £5k modding the Edition 30 and its running at 321.4bhp... just shows how quickly you get used to power increases as the Edition 30 feels like a standard one to me now! But the R32 is our family car and for that its excellent - my wife loved the ride and thought it was very soft and compliant :laugh: . Well it would be compared to the Bilsteins I have on the Edition 30! I'm sure it'll reveal its true character once its run in though. I'm very happy with it as its exactly what I wanted, something that is a family car but still sporty with bags of character- the R32 - and a hard core tuned track car - the Ed30.
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Lovely collection of cars! Looking forward to the pics :smiley: :smiley:
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Sounds lovely, but you know the score by now get the pics up before you start teasing us. :party: :party: :party:
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Like I said at the other place.
PPPPPPPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Your right what you say about getting use to the power, I think mine is tame enough but a mate jumped in and said when he nailed it it was like kicking Satan in the nuts :jumping:
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Congrats on the new addition Illyun....err......I think I said the same when your little baby arrived too :signLOL:
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ye, get some pics up asap mate!
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congrats on the addtition
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congrats!! now i need pics to drool over :drool:
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Illyun you have the most desirable collection of Golfs :drool: and im not jealous one bit :chicken: :drinking:
We need a group shot NOW!!!!!! :santa:
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Nathan might not be jealous but I am!!!! :fighting:
You've really got the best of both worlds - A tactile and fast GTI and a comfy R32 with a V6 soundtrack. How are you going to resist a Milltek on that V6!? :evilgrin:
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Nathan might not be jealous but I am!!!! :fighting:
You've really got the best of both worlds - A tactile and fast GTI and a comfy R32 with a V6 soundtrack. How are you going to resist a Milltek on that V6!? :evilgrin:
Your forgetting his immaculate Mk1 GTI too Robin :drool:
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just shows how quickly you get used to power increases
I learn't that one many years back its why i always have a low powered small engine car in my fleet that way when i think about changing one of the GTIs etc for something faster as i don't think its that good anymore i get one of the put puts out and use it for a few weeks until i learn the art of driving again in low powered 50bhp cars. I then get back in the GTIs and there like rocketships. Saves me a fortune in 'upgrades'. Also meens i have a car i can use in bad snowy winter times when the weather gets real bad on certain days.
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A Warm Welcome to the forum, Geoff :happy2: - I hope you find it useful.
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Congrats Illyun...would love to have a 32 on the drive next to the Eddy! The bese of both worlds! :happy2:
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tom, bikes, crimbo eve?
(sorry lost my phone)