Renault Megane RS250 vs Golf GTI review

[Corey_R]

Three things which show that VW have gone for a cheaper route since the MkIV Golf.
1. Reflectors in the doors as opposed to proper lights.
2. Weighted balls on strings for the parcel shelves as opposed to self recoiling housings.
3. Really nasty engine covers (I mean the MkV GTI was cheap and nasty and now the MkVI GTI is even worse).

Then there's the fact that the GTI doesn't even come standard with nice GTI scuff plates anymore.

I mean seriously, come on VW you can do better than that.

Cheers,
Trent

You also forgot...
4) The fact the price is several thousand cheaper now than with the MKIV

[pologti18t]

But I still want to revisit pug ownership in a 306 GTi-6. One of those or a 172/182 cup would make a great little club car/hillclimb whilst still being road legal

I had a 306XSI and then a 306 GTi-6. The GTI-6 still ranks with me as one of the best hot hatches of all time. Think of it as a late 90s perfect merging of a RS250 and Golf GTI

Oh, i think the MKVI is much classier than the MKV GTI. Just the change to a darker cloth on the seats and dash have made a huge improvement.

[domlebo70]

I've read the GTI-6 was pretty awesome. I had a 205, and my god it handled well. It was so immediate. There was zero slack in any of it's responses. The way you could tip it into a corner and then balance the whole car on the outside rear tyre was SOOO much fun. Caught me out once or twice though. I thought a 182 would be similar, but it feels so much more vague. Still a good car

[sabloke]

that engine cover doesn't exactly set the world on fire, does it? and if you look in your boot, you'll see string lifting up your rear parcel shelf as well. does this mean that renault have cut every corner they possibly could? hint, it's a trick question.

No plastic there, all alloy baby! My bonnet is not transparent anyway, so what's exactly th problem?

Sorry, but since you brought it up, I have to say GTI's engine bay really sucks... Looks like a cacophony of ugly black plastic to me.


Megane's just as ugly!

[pologti18t]

I've read the GTI-6 was pretty awesome. I had a 205, and my god it handled well. It was so immediate. There was zero slack in any of it's responses. The way you could tip it into a corner and then balance the whole car on the outside rear tyre was SOOO much fun. Caught me out once or twice though. I thought a 182 would be similar, but it feels so much more vague. Still a good car

LOL.. I spun my 306 GTi6 twice. Trailing throttle oversteer

[Capercat]

it's ok if you don't like women. it's the 21st century, you just keep on being fabulous. personally i have only seen caymans (caymen?) driven by men. manly men, with manly mates. i hear that before you buy one the porsche dealer sits you on a chair with a hole in it, and gently confirms your gender to make sure you aren't a secret woman out to give cayman drivers a bad name.

A few posts ago I was a yuppie, now I'm a woman that supposedly doesn't like women.

Has the recent Queensland weather affected your intellect? or is it the result of inbreeding...

[domlebo70]

LOL.. I spun my 306 GTi6 twice. Trailing throttle oversteer

BAHAHA nice! I never managed a spin, but I had a nice brow-pants moment not 5 feet from the guard rail in the wet. Gathered it up nicely and looked around to see if anyone had noticed

[Treza360]

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that engine cover doesn't exactly set the world on fire, does it? and if you look in your boot, you'll see string lifting up your rear parcel shelf as well. does this mean that renault have cut every corner they possibly could? hint, it's a trick question.

Was comparing MkIV to MkV and MkVI Golfs not Renaults for that one. I don't actually have a problem with the weighted balls but my point is that VW have gone backwards in regards to that.
Also as pointed out that's not actually an engine cover on the Clio.
Cheers,
Trent

[Capercat]

Love the alloy look

BTW is that a red durometer polyurethane engine mount on the left?

[Treza360]

My personal favourite is the giant hole in the air intake for added cabin induction noise. I mean even the Clio has it (you see the small holes in picture posted above) but still a hole that size is ridiculous.
Cheers,
Trent

[brisgtimkv]

A few posts ago I was a yuppie, now I'm a woman that supposedly doesn't like women.

Has the recent Queensland weather affected your intellect? or is it the result of inbreeding...

i didn't did say you were a woman. i apologise without reservation if i misinterpreted your earlier comments about middle aged women. could you clarify them?

and we have lovely weather here and lots of mexicans too. come on up, you'll feel right at home.

[Capercat]

This is spooky, the automated Google adds below are reading into our posts.

[brisgtimkv]

My personal favourite is the giant hole in the air intake for added cabin induction noise. I mean even the Clio has it (you see the small holes in picture posted above) but still a hole that size is ridiculous.
Cheers,
Trent

lol if it's for induction noise, i never hear it. the rest of the time the exhaust pops and exhaust burble drown out anything happening up front.

i've driven a few quick clios but at 6 foot 4 and 110kg, it was fun till it started to hurt (that's what she said). still good fun though. have you tracked yours yet?

[Ideo]

LOL.. I spun my 306 GTi6 twice. Trailing throttle oversteer

The XSI was a bit of fun for that - I can only imagine that the GTi-6 would be even better.

I've been looking into a Xsara VTS as well - they seem to be nicely rear driven for a fwd.

[triode12]

lol what? the button presses are the same distance apart as in the mkv. seriously

They are not as intuitive as in the MkV being clustered together and not separated.

that's the outside of the car. amazingly relatives may have to grudgingly accept that you car even has a filler cap on the wrong side of the car to theirs!.

Still a cost cutting measure.

pocket shape has changed. size is the same, i can fit the same amount of stuff as in the mkv but there's more room in the vi for bigger bottles.

Try fitting a large street directory in there.

wrong. temp is displayed as illuminated numbers around the selector wheel. seriously, are you kidding me here? if that were the case how could vw sell mkvis without the touch screen?.

Again - another cost cutting measure instead of the dedicated illuminated LCD screens for each side.

really? i know which one will be worth more after 5 years! hint, it's the one with touch screen head unit as a really cheap option..

I don't know why you are talking about head units when I was talking about chrome accents on vents and the steering wheel. Just for your information, late model MkV GTIs came standard with RCD510s and could be optioned with RNS510s.

there were people who didn't like the red/blue scheme either..

Seriously colourblind people perhaps or people with a hole in their head.

i have. the quality is as good or better than the mkiv, which was better than the mkv.

Only In your dreams. The quality is so much better than the mkV that they included the rattles as a bonus.

well, that was easy too. I don't understand why MkVI GTI owners always get so defensive over their choice. Facts are facts - embrace them