Most Useless Function

[mikinoz]

1. The headlights automatically going on in daytime if you exceed 140km/h;

Does not work on TDI

[Jaymz]

Does not work on TDI

Actually, the lights came on for me last weekend when going for a blast. Maybe base models miss out on this amazing feature

[STV4SYT]

Yeah the winter button, the one beside the ESP button, that doesnt light u during daylight and doesnt have a dashboard light to warn u either. i did my first rive with it on accidentally too.

[ranton-inc]

i think a funny feature is the one where the hazards turn on after a really hard emergency brake..

imagine being at a track day..

my hazards would be on the whole time

[blutopless2]

have put this in another post also... but reckon the most useless is the change lane function on the indicators... not enough flashes to change lanes in time.

[mr hanky]

Hi from a newbie! (CW manual GTI due in a couple of months.) After a bit of test driving, the most useless feature seems to be a 300 km/h speedo on a car which does less than 240 - leaving the important part of the speedo too crowded to read easily.

Hell of a car otherwise, though...

[SoVeReIgN]

Hi from a newbie! (CW manual GTI due in a couple of months.) After a bit of test driving, the most useless feature seems to be a 300 km/h speedo on a car which does less than 240 - leaving the important part of the speedo too crowded to read easily.

Hell of a car otherwise, though...

Your car obviously isn't chipped then

[Mischa]

Hi from a newbie! (CW manual GTI due in a couple of months.) After a bit of test driving, the most useless feature seems to be a 300 km/h speedo on a car which does less than 240 - leaving the important part of the speedo too crowded to read easily.

Hell of a car otherwise, though...

lol an lsd with the right ratio + chip = very fast gti but thered be no point doing that anywhere except germany

[mrx]

have put this in another post also... but reckon the most useless is the change lane function on the indicators... not enough flashes to change lanes in time.

This forced me to adapt my driving style. 3 flashes is now enough!

[Lams]

This is a useful one, but imagine having dinner with the guy who thought of it

When you approach your destination and you switch off your engine early and just roll to a stop, your headlights will stay on until the car comes to a complete stop.

If you floor a TDI you get a cloud of smoke behind you (unless of course you have a GT-Sport)

If you floor your GTI you get a cloud of white smoke behind you.

[Mischa]

This is a useful one, but imagine having dinner with the guy who thought of it

When you approach your destination and you switch off your engine early and just roll to a stop, your headlights will stay on until the car comes to a complete stop.

If you floor a TDI you get a cloud of smoke behind you (unless of course you have a GT-Sport)

If you floor your GTI you get a cloud of white smoke behind you.

give you 50bucks if your gti can do a better burnout than my gt tdi

[Tensixty6]

give you 50bucks if your gti can do a better burnout than my gt tdi

Define the term "better burnout"?

[BarneyBoy]

Yeah the winter button, the one beside the ESP button, that doesnt light u during daylight and doesnt have a dashboard light to warn u either. i did my first rive with it on accidentally too.

The 'W' lights up in mine when you push it - trouble is, during the day it's damn near impossible to tell it's on! Still, you only have to try to accelerate and you pretty quickly realise something serious is wrong

I wonder what they were thinking when they sat down to spec the GT build from the South African factory? OK - now, where are these cars going? Australia, NZ, Hong Kong, Singapore, Cyprus, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan... now, what do all these countries have in common? I know, snow & ice! Let's put the 'W' button in for them! But we'll delete the extending sunvisors instead (what would they want them for?)

[Mischa]

Define the term "better burnout"?

lol was only joking... tyres are too damn expensive. although practicing launching the other night it was pretty hard not to just burn rubber

[Tensixty6]

lol was only joking... tyres are too damn expensive. although practicing launching the other night it was pretty hard not to just burn rubber

Does the GT have the same launch control system as the GTI?