MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: titchy on May 24, 2022, 02:02:23 pm
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Vw announce Golf R 20 year Latest news in Autocar
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Looks sh1t and only 22hp more than the current Golf R. Lame effort.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-volkswagen-golf-r-20-years-most-powerful-production-golf
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Can't believe how much vw hatches go for these days or indeed most cars. 50k!!
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£50k for a Golf… What has the world come to…
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£50k for a Golf… What has the world come to…
Ill take an Audi R8 please or something like a M3 comp or RS4 for that money (ok second hand but still....)
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£50k for that is absurd. Most expensive +20hp remap in history.
It just seems in bad taste to push out a £50K Golf now, when all I hear on the news at the moment is people choosing between heating or eating!
Anyway, this is how a 20th Anniversary R should be done, minus the stupid yellow highlights.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-detroit-motor-show/volkswagen-golf-r400-mega-hatch-could-make-production
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+22 bhp but you also get an “Emotional Start”. That’s probably a tear trickling down your cheek when you turn the key and realise that Superchips can give you a + 33 bhp remap for under £400 :grin:
It sounds like they’ve introduced some sort of anti-lag on the turbo, although it’s not described as such: “the turbocharger has been reconfigured to run at a constant speed under partial throttle, which then makes for quicker acceleration on kickdown”. That sounds intriguing…
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"Emotional Start" :grin: FFS, cringe marketing level 10 :sick:
Sounds like it needs that from what I've seen on YouTube as folk reckon the MK8 R is noticeably laggier than the MK7! It also sounds like a good way to shorten turbo bearing life :grin:
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Looks sh1t and only 22hp more than the current Golf R. Lame effort.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-volkswagen-golf-r-20-years-most-powerful-production-golf
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/volkswagen/golf-r (https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/volkswagen/golf-r)
It's 13 PS or 12 bhp. From 320 PS to 333 PS, or from 316 bhp to 328 bhp. So I'd think no one will really feel much difference.
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Looks sh1t and only 22hp more than the current Golf R. Lame effort.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-volkswagen-golf-r-20-years-most-powerful-production-golf
It's 11 PS. From 320 PS to 333 PS. So I'd think no one will really feel much difference.
Even more of a pointless marketing exercise then.
Shame Audi won't let VW use the RS3 engine as that would have made a 20th Anniversary R worthwhile, or maybe dig out the old R32 warhorse and turbo it.
But what they've done, and trying to sell it for £50K.....what a joke.
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Even more of a pointless marketing exercise then.
Shame Audi won't let VW use the RS3 engine as that would have made a 20th Anniversary R worthwhile, or maybe dig out the old R32 warhorse and turbo it.
But what they've done, and trying to sell it for £50K.....what a joke.
100% agree!