Gadgetory

the world is full of affordable cars with kind of gray and white personalities but the Gulf has always been something more colorful and no golf more saturated than the golf the first thing I notice in our Golf R is that let's face it a two liter inline-4 with a turbo is always gonna feel like a two liter inline-4 with a turbo you can get buried under a lack of boost or too tall a gear pretty easily so it's a car you got to stay involved in but that doesn't bother me because that's why you bought an R got a whole mess of power coming on here right when I need it as long as I keep the revs up and keep that turbo spool now we have that DCC adaptive suspension I haven't done an a/b against the dead steel version but this car does not suffer from any understeer you point it and it kicks right in that way I love the sound this car makes but turns out what I'm hearing isn't necessarily just the engine there's something up in the cowl at the base of the windshield an electronic device called the sound actor which resonates a synthetic growl up through the bottom of the glass apparently a lot of folks get in there and unplug it I gotta say it's kind of unseemly for one of the last great honest driving cars so I'm sad they put it there but maybe the engine doesn't sound very good now I know many of you rue the fact we don't yet have a manual gearbox in this vehicle but I can tell you this is a super snappy sharp and quick DSG it's got pretty good around town manners with the exception of getting caught flat-footed sometimes in automatic mode however I still have that third panel just to really get in touch with the simple but brawny honesty of this car just a little better and despite our 19th and our low profile tires and our firm sports suspension and all the things going on to keep this thing really solid and planted ride quality is really good you will have no problem in everyday driving with your arm since the last Golf R this one has 36 more horsepower yet uses three mpg less on the highway so it's gone the right direction on both counts this is a fun little box pick you back to the first Golf GTI I drove way back in the day this is what it felt like that's good thing you