2019 VW Golf R vs Civic Type R vs Veloster N - TRACK REVIEW // DRAG RACE & LAP TIMES

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, welcome to the throttle house test

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, our own corner of the world where we can do

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racing and set lap

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. I'm Thomas and I'm James, and today we have the Honda Civic

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... In the Veloster N and the Golf R, as usual, it's not about practicality or fuel economy, it's about performance and today's sponsor is the Crown rust control, if you don't already know, crown ring is a service that protects new and used cars from rust. It's super complete. I know tons of people who swear by it.

In fact, they recently crowned my WRX so it could last another 150k miles. Yes, we actually topped my Volvo, but I decided to let James have that one. No, not your Volvo. starts that morning you basically have a car, cars, rust, get it, period, let's start with the Honda Civic

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-r, a 2-liter turbo four-cylinder that makes 306 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque, it's the most powerful here you have. Brilliantly designed suspension and track-focused engineering, but in our experience it doesn't seem to go off the line like it should, so it might struggle a bit in this specially prepared

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alongside the Golf R.

This one is manual too, but it has all-wheel drive and now with 288 horsepower and 280 pound-feet of torque it will depend on its ability to drive all four wheels to win on the 2-liter turbo engine with direct injection. The lightest man is the king. This is the fully equipped Veloster n model with 275 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of torque, so it's still definitely the underdog despite its weight advantage, but it's also massively the cheapest and we still have perks like independent rear suspension and an LSD, so remember this is not a prepped model. The drag surface is like a normal road, so this is what would happen if these three cars stopped at a light before watching this

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type-r I'm actually pretty light because I'm front wheel drive and I'm pretty sure I'm going to beat the Veloster and the Langa. I have wider, stickier tires, but I don't think I'll pass the Golf R on the line. The question is: can I reach it and pass it? I don't know if I have more horsepower and I'm lighter, so that's the big question. James doesn't matter, he will be. Lastly, but can I beat the Golf R?

Well, I'm on speed N and I'm supporting this issue because I want to give it the justice it deserves. He's the new kid on the block. I'm going to make a proper front wheel. I don't want the wheels to spin too much at the same time. I may be in a bind because even though it's the lightest, it also has the least amount of horsepower, so I'll have to work pretty hard to achieve it. this happens here we go good lunch good lunch ok here we go my boss behind me connect turbo come on I just turned off the lights at the end Oh no, how's that for cinematics?

Gosh, I bet the thing was just taken out of line. I don't believe it, I don't believe it, so I pulled. I have you right at the end. Gotcha, but it counts as some sort of attempt to warm us up, but since this isn't supersonic on a sticky surface, the typo would occur. I would have this, yeah, yeah, I was honestly putting it in second gear, it was fighting me, honestly, fighting me, this gear crunching is a real thing, all I know is that a Veloster n almost is a

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type-r that you almost beat. a Civic type-r but you didn't do it, that's what counts, well let's take it to the race track, let's do it right, speed and race track, and I have exhaust pops, so when it comes to sound, this thing it has the other two nice beats because it's so much fun, this is good, oh this is great, okay, the Golf R has a Haldex type all-wheel drive system.

VW doesn't like you to call it Haldex, but that's how thick it can send up to fifty percent to the rear. It means that, unlike the Focus RS, it can't perform power slides, but what it does do is allow you to launch out of corners very effectively. Colony cosines are very similar to communication with weight transfer. You can control oversteer and understeer very easily and the steering feels great, you can just will it and then it works like we saw on the race track. I almost took that moment, so this is no slouch at all on the race track, so the Veloster n definitely rattles.

Playful, but the Golf R combines sophistication and fun. It actually sounds pretty good. The power is so linear. He doesn't like it when you get a big boost. It just does what it does. The ride is too hard on the street. and it's also pretty uncompromising on the track, as you can see I'm probably moving all over the place, so our test track has some really tight corners and the front grip is really impressive. I have a deal with a lot of experience in it and the The front differential is very important to get out of corners, you can absolutely.

I turn around and lower the power, oh, and it just manages to make the interior perfectly see that we can do a little bit of oversteer on takeoff, yes, it will. What I do notice though is that the Golf R feels front-wheel drive overall, the only time you notice the four-wheel drivers and you actually put it on exiting a corner and it looks great, but here now same. our test track I'm having. I am having fun. I wish the red line was a little longer, so is the 6500 red line. It makes me want to be in the gear longer, especially on the race track, because this can put the walk down, that right is uncompromising , it's one of those cars that doesn't have a lot of drama, it doesn't feel very fast here, but the brakes are also quite powerful because it also turns under the brakes, as Trailbreaker turns out to be. let's see if I can fix this again here's a fun car it's a fun car you have to know how to drive it even though it's not it doesn't give away the exciting nature until you start pushing it I'm going to go get James and we're both going to go drive the Type R.

I could drive this all day. This is me. There are two levels of fun. Do you know what my money is on the Civic Type-R for the hot lap? So when Thomas drives it, but I'm right, this could be the Golf R. Well, why do we do it together? Thomas, I just want to scare you, that's too close, let's take it easy, one of our lives, us, my recliner, a race track, one of our lives is perfect. against the second and third crib all that death, the front of this is as sharp as the twist, we're just going to get a little out of hand, what do you think? and takeoff oversteer is necessary.

Thomas is a track instructor, so you can be seated, everything fits today, bring me some comfort as a passenger. He will come in the second. I got the other Roadmaster newbie to drive a DCT. Well, let's get to it. How does this Gulf first bill work? All this is ten thousand

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more. aggressive that the Golf R is so much sharper that it's hard to explain I liked that they're a little thin tires which means the front goes and turns it to the right it's absolutely incredibly good luck this card to drive the fact that it's front wheel drive but you're fine The fact that it's front wheel drive doesn't really make it and how many times if I set it up in camp, what do you mean when it comes to playing in the Pala Down?

No, no, what like the weight of the car, the fields in the In the corner you just let off the accelerator and the nose goes exactly where you want, it's absolutely perfectly dialed. This is one of those cars where if you put this on shocks I'll hit you, unless they're like $10,000 shocks, you'd ruin what is absolutely a masterpiece of a car for the driver and the so-called even as a passenger I need seats wonderful these seats the seats in the set hold you better than the Veloster and the Golf R divers in this one it has 20 inch wheels that Many people change some I 18's to make them easier to live with on the road, but on the track these they will allow you to have a larger Center and in our plus mode, which I have it in now, it is actually plus all. the ones I'm sorry and some are like the name of that, yeah, everything tightens up, it sharpens up, it's just a brilliant car and honestly the lap times you can set on this thing are really shocking, it's shocking how fast it goes. this thing goes on a track.

I still think this will be the fastest, let's see, let's do it, okay, our rules are Time Attack star, which means Thomas has one warm-up lap, three fast laps, and one cool-down lap, which means he has to work with the car. and the cars will work with him to set the best lap time possible and as you can see behind me he is currently testing the Veloster and I hope he comes back in one piece otherwise I will set three warm laps. Well, let's take a look at the best lap on each one, you may notice that it seems like I'm driving one car harder than another.

I'm not, what you're actually seeing is that some cars simply allow you to carry more speed into a corner due to their suspension setup, tires and alignment. I made sure to get the highest cornering speeds possible with each of these cars. Also, if you've seen our m2 versus Type R video, we expected the Type r here to be a little bit slower than those days. The conditions were not so favorable and the track did not have as much grip. Let's look at the correct lap times. Could you put us out of our misery? What do you think makes our appearance look like it's the fastest Golf R?

I don't know it looked good, I screeched and squealed a lot, this was blowing up, it was having fun, it looked really fast, but I think the Type R looks faster, you're not ready for this, you're not ready for this, I'm telling you listening. Well, last time you did an 18.6, wow, that's pretty good, actually, it's pretty fast. Yes, the Golf R caused 120 deaths. Oh, okay, so the shine and the beating goes in your favor, no one's ready for what I'm about to say, right? Now I looked so fast, this is a 120, this one did a 115, 0.63, the last conclusive and five on a short track, I mean, it's an incredibly fast age, the five second version turned very well, so It was easier to drive fast.

Ok this was faster coming out of corners but I couldn't get any real front grip to get things tight that fast and this is just faster and better all good there's a reason we compare it to the competition m2. Which one, if you haven't seen it, is already on our channel, which one would you buy? Oh, let's see, this could cost five thousand dollars more and I think it would still be my choice. This is a bargain right now; just to save the money, I would do it. buy the Veloster and yes, it is a lot of fun, well, complete the temporary so far, my favor, the diary, if we talk about winter time, this is the one, yes, but right now, on this track, for fun, I would choose the Veloster.

So the Golf R is the most livable, the Type R is by far the fastest, but the Veloster n is the most fun, which means there really isn't a perfect hot hatch for us at the moment, but we can go happy home knowing it exists. it is a car that fills up avoid