Volkswagen Golf R vs Golf GTI Performance 2018 review | Head2Head

I have a little question for you, let's say you want a high

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Volkswagen, should you get a nice Golf GTI

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package or should you spend more, get a whole pig and buy the Golf R to find out. I need to compare. Their appearance isn't all smiley and happy, pretty clear cabins, nice but it's a bit more boring, look at how they drive and it's all you need in the real world and try their performance slider, yeah here we go they are durable enough. but first let's talk money, the Golf GTI performance package starts at around £29,000 while the Golf R starts at just over £32, but what really matters is the price you actually pay at a dealership.

Now you can click there and get a car. In the UK you can configure your ideal

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r and get the best price from dealers, and you can compare offers and buy at a price you trust the Golf GTI and ours has just been updated as part of a middle-aged facelift. Changes include digital dials and a new infotainment system. A little more power for some new front and rear bumpers and light designs to make the car look better. There are several elements of each car that I prefer, for example, I prefer the GTI badge basically because it is.

It's been around longer, it's got more heritage, also like this red bar the way it goes into the headlights, I mean it really stands out and the honeycomb effect is a nice touch, whereas on the Golf R you've got these slats and this silver bar which is not as prominent, however I prefer the lower part of the bumper, the slats work better down here and it has a lowering bracket, it just makes it look more aggressive, it's like it's growling, while the GTR , if you look at it, it would definitely be a masectomy with turned mouths.

He's a little smiling and happy, plus the R has this additional air intake for the radiators and something different. I think I prefer the Golf R, but not much on the sides, they are quite similar, the only difference is of course the wheels on this particular card I prefer the wheels on the GTI. Also, the GTI Performance Package has red brake calipers, while the R has silver calipers, they just don't stand out as much at the rear. This one is easy, the reason for the Golf R is because it has four exhaust pipes, as simple as that, however let's not forget that in hot hatches what matters most is fun, not style, so which one? of these cars has the superior dynamics.

The best thing about the GTI dog is that it is a high performance car with very few compromises, so the suspension is surprisingly comfortable, it is very easy to drive, you know you can live with this car every day without problems, it is also a lot of fun , cuts through a twisty road, handles brilliantly and is all you really need in the real world and the performance after that by giving me some bigger brakes, more importantly, although you now have a smart front differential, which does is that when you are going through a curve it allows the engine to send a lot of power to the outside wheels. effectively dragged around the corner and there's really nothing better than to work it down, put its power down and you can drive it a little faster coming out of a corner, then you could just be a normal front wheel drive performance car without a smart differential as well Yes, I mean.

It's really impressive, but the question is whether everyone feels very different. One thing you know is the fact that it's two hundred pounds heavier and that means when you push it it doesn't feel as agile. It's not that agile. the responsiveness is taken away, it falls off on the track, although there is a reason for that extra road and it is the four wheel drive system, now it makes a big difference, so you are driving, you take a corner and you want to get the power. Note that the GTI with the Performance Pack does a great job for us from an all-wheel drive car, but while this r is front-wheel drive most of the time, when you need it, it will send power to the rear wheels and I only let it spin briefly. our corner much faster, you really notice it, another thing you should know about the golden fire is that you can get it some select upgrades that you can't get in GTI performance, for example you can get sticky tires which this guy has, you can have Brakes improved light weight from the club sport S that this car has.

You can restrict the maximum speed to sixty-five miles per hour. 11. The cave is not updated for tain iam Akrapovic or it is shit. Can you tell me in the comments? In the box below I have the exhaust and it sounds better, also seven kilos lighter than the normal exhaust, it is still a little light and really, although the R is heavier than the GTI on the road, this matters less than on the track , while the all-wheel drive system makes it easier to drive faster on an unfamiliar road, however, there is one area where the GTI feels more special.

I really like the interior of the GTI because it has red accents and that really helps lift the conservative cockpit of the Golf, those red accents on the dials. here on the seat as well and this one has a honeycomb pattern that is imitated here on the dash when it obviously matches the honeycomb on the front grill and people who remember the GTI of yesteryear, that cognitive came with tartan seats and you can get seats Totten. With this car too, another thing you get with the GTI, of course, is the GTR badge. Here you also get it in the vehicle status lock.

It's a GTR. It is not a normal goal to give it a nice touch. You think the more you pay, the more special. The Golf will be felt inside, but not like this, the interior of the Golf R is strangely more subdued than the GTI, even though this is the top of the range car, so the theme is generally black and silver, so that that effect was obtained here on the board. The seats have the same structure as the GTI dashboards and are a little simpler looking so they have black fabric and silver elements, there is black trim and silver elements on the badge, silver stitching on the steering wheel.

It kind of matches the brake calipers, actually the black and silver ones on the instruments, you get blue dials instead of red effect and it's the same in the main course of christmas akkad, it's the art instead of the GTI , it's nice but it's a little more boring. What is not surprising is the performance that diesel cars offer. The regular Golf GTI has 230 horsepower, but the front package increases this to 245 horsepower and it's a 2-liter turbocharged engine, to speak of, the only thing is that I was like in a sport. late with the hot hatch artists, so it's a fantastic, fast car, it drives well, but it doesn't exactly blow you away now.

I'm not sure if it's just because I'm used to much faster cars these days or because it's not all that. fast I think we have to find out that this detailed performance package is not supposed to hit 60 in 6.2 seconds Bonta; it really does. I've got my data logging equipment up there, I've got the sportier Carnot up there, there you go. I'm alone. I'm going to step on the brake, hold it down, accelerate, activate the launch control, come on, little fish, frame, support legs in front wheel drive and we're going pretty fast, I think it's easily six beers, there we go, the typical Volkswagen with its performance statistics, not sixties.

Five point seven seconds, don't be satisfied with that Ryan and look at what the pulling power of these engines is now, so I'm going to keep it in manual mode in fourth gear and then just put the pedal to the metal, it's been in fourth gear and it's on the pig. I'm going to measure performance between 30 and 50 miles per hour and 50 and 70, there we go, let's see what we got. 1350 did it in 4.6 seconds and between 1570 he did it in 4.8 seconds, so in Tripoli, if you want. find a high performance car that sometimes destroys people, obviously for many people the reason to go to the Gulf is over Jeter's wall because the extra performance, so the car now has 310 horsepower from its 2-liter turbocharged engine and produces 400 Newton meters of torque. when you have it with a DSG automatic gearbox and yes this engine feels strong, it feels stronger than the GTI, it feels like a really fast car, it really is, but what do the numbers say?

The DSG version of this Golf R shouldn't be able to do anything. to 60 in 4.6 seconds, which is quite a bit quicker than the GTI DST with the performance package, but where's the reality tunnel? Launch it and the procedure is exactly the same as the GTI, so here we go, wait, it was quick. Oh geez, yeah, there we are. Wow, that's already pretty rusty, what did it do? What did? It doesn't do anything at sixty-four point two seconds from a golf bat, crazy, crazy guys, now let's see what the Golf R does in terms of going in four, from 30 to 50 and from 50 to 70 let's find out how it accelerates now, like this that the engine is really tied up.

Wow, okay, that's enough, it felt faster, it definitely fell faster again. You notice, okay, thirty-two fifty-three point seven seconds, but this is interesting, fifty to seventy is only three point five seconds, that's a big difference, this engine is wicked, so you know that my data logic runs in several hours, while these speedometers show kilometers, now it's fine, so what is my final verdict? Well I think if you want the most rugged performance you just have to get the Golf R, it's just a brilliant machine, I said it now, if you enjoyed this video please like it and of course comment in the box below, do Click there to subscribe to our channel and see my full content.

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