Tweet
Well, I love my WRX (MY01, 3inch exhaust etc), and will shed a tear when (if!) I sell it, but I am getting a manual Golf R, pickup Tuesday! I had to compromise one option in order to get it without the waiting list, and that is the ACC/DCC 
But it has sunroof and satnav and manual, all the other things I wanted (took a DSG one for a drive, and while traffic light drags are great with the DSG, you still don't get the fully connected feel, when say, blatting it through the windy twisty roads of Akuna bay where I took the demo one for a spin, there seems to be the typical auto lag when you get on the pedal of waiting for it to decide which gear it wants you to be in, not good when you are trying to use throttle control to keep tight in the corner...).
I thought long and hard about keeping my WRX till it runs into the ground (120K on the clock is pretty light though), getting a new WRX (or preferably STI), or getting something less plasticy and I loved the R32 when it came out... and since learned it had to move way for the lesser sounding, but better performing R... so wondered if the R was for me.
Come the Volkswagen sale 2 weeks ago, and some kind of insanity, I rocked up to the dealer and asked to buy one (kind of sort of)
.
You can't argue with the price (compared to the STI certainly)... and the interior is sooo much nicer (not to mention I am not getting any younger, and, while I have managed to avoid the wrath of the law with my hooning in the WRX, something a bit more sleeper looking might be better).
So all those comparo's saying "they are in completely different markets, why compare them"... well, in my mind, I have been trying to compare them for ages, so many pros and cons of each....
But it has sunroof and satnav and manual, all the other things I wanted (took a DSG one for a drive, and while traffic light drags are great with the DSG, you still don't get the fully connected feel, when say, blatting it through the windy twisty roads of Akuna bay where I took the demo one for a spin, there seems to be the typical auto lag when you get on the pedal of waiting for it to decide which gear it wants you to be in, not good when you are trying to use throttle control to keep tight in the corner...).I thought long and hard about keeping my WRX till it runs into the ground (120K on the clock is pretty light though), getting a new WRX (or preferably STI), or getting something less plasticy and I loved the R32 when it came out... and since learned it had to move way for the lesser sounding, but better performing R... so wondered if the R was for me.
Come the Volkswagen sale 2 weeks ago, and some kind of insanity, I rocked up to the dealer and asked to buy one (kind of sort of)
.You can't argue with the price (compared to the STI certainly)... and the interior is sooo much nicer (not to mention I am not getting any younger, and, while I have managed to avoid the wrath of the law with my hooning in the WRX, something a bit more sleeper looking might be better).
So all those comparo's saying "they are in completely different markets, why compare them"... well, in my mind, I have been trying to compare them for ages, so many pros and cons of each....
the WRX intake to improve that, amazing what removing a plastic resonator with a funny kink in it can do!, thinking of an intake for the Golf but don't want to radically alter the engine bay or engine cover). Would like to hear the wastegate "whistle" a bit *less*. It seems to really get a big whistle under heavy boost/acceleration! I can only assume it is the wastegate opening up to release some of the pressure build up (it gets plenty of that, the stock WRX was only 14psi, I believe the Golf R is significantly higher boost).
Comment