I like the new commercials for it

 

Yep. Two people in my office have one. Both have had problems.

 

Nice cars I love the dubs, after owning a 01 gti 1.8t and a 04 R32 great vehicles

 

^ +1

i had an 01 passat and i loved it. handled good and was pretty quick.

 

I have saw it once on my apartment block,look sweet!!!But,for the price,i would take EVO 9!!!

 

Am I missing something here? The GTI's start at $21,990, well below a new Evo...unless you know of somewhere to get an Evo that cheap. Are the GTI's getting marked waaay up? I hadn't heard about that...

 

WTF is a fast?

 

It is this little black thing from the commercials, basically it just tells the driver to drive faster, etc. It's kinda creepy in the commercials, but it would be cool to get a little one for the dash or something if that had a GTI...

Or even better, hook it up as a hood ornament!

 

called fast ????7 sec in 0-60??......i rather buy a RSX type S with all the options for that price......

 

An RSX Type - S with all the options is atleast 4 grand more than a GTI...

 

pretty damn tempting car for $21000k...probably the best under $25k you can buy. i used to be a dubber with a a mkiv 20th...and it was a decent car. it had some quality issues since it was built in brazil, but the new one is home grown in germany, so that should take care of a lot of the problems associated with the mkiv.

if you wait until july, they will release the 4 door hatch version (for $500 more) and more importantly...they will have a launch control program for the dsg which will apparently improve 0-60 and 1/4 times by half a second . they run decent #'s...stock: 0-60 6.3 & 1/4 14.9@93.

someone mentioned tuning the car, on the vwvortex.com they have dyno's showing that they have something to 190whp stock...and with just a chip, 3" turboback and CAI...you get 80whp!

i'm sorta looking into them once i sell my evo, but the only problem i have with them is the ride height, they jacked it up .8" forthe us market...which really numbed the handling. but that can be fixed with some coil overs!

 

Are those 0-60 numbers for the GTI hatch? VW and Motor Trend are quoted in the 7.0 - 7.2 range, so I would be a little surprised if it really ran at 6.3...but you never know.

 

this was from the car and driver issue where they compared the gti to the civic si...and i was a bit off, it's 0-60 is 6.6. i believe the motortrend article tested a pre production version.

 

Ah, ok, good deal, I had seen that it was a pre-production version, but I didn't know that the production version got faster. Thanks for the info!

 

there was a kid driving one at the mobil and he was all looking at my vortex generators and stuff... lol so i got behind him he gased it and so did i.... you all know what happended so i dont think i even need to explain. BUT the car did look kinda sleek in its own weird way.