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| Golf GTI / R / R32 |
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196 | 0.02% |
| Impreza WRX / STi |
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133 | 0.01% |
| Mazdaspeed 3 |
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92 | 0.01% |
| Veloster Turbo |
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20 | 0.00% |
| Focus ST |
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149 | 0.01% |
| Other Hot Hatch |
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230 | 0.02% |
| Elantra GT |
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1000001 | 99.92% |
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Phone posted:And guess what! The service writer was correct and your uncle isn't Smokey Yunick. I pretty much drove my 11 Golf TDI just like my previous car. Breakin periods are for cars that had poo poo tolerances.
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Sep 11, 2013 21:03
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KakerMix posted:What is the real excuse why people ignore what the engineers put into the owner's manual for cars? If the owner's manual says drive it under 4k RPM and never floor it for the first one thousand miles and limited sustained RPMs (like mine did) what reason does someone have to go 'nah' and ignore it? I don't understand it at all, it's in the manufacturer's best interest to keep your car running like it's supposed to. You might want to trade that car in on a new model and then they can make even more money off your car later. They want it to be running properly and breaking in properly just like the owner would. Never said how I drove it did I? I said I drive it just like how I drove my last car. What do I give a poo poo, I can afford to have the warranty out to 100k and 7 years, at which point I'll have become bored with it anyway and be trading it in  Not everyone drives a car for 20 years. The fuel pump and DPF will poo poo out long before I ever have engine troubles.(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sep 12, 2013 15:02
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Bob A Feet posted:Oil change arguments are hilarious. Congrats, your 1000 mile discrepancy won't manifest itself until probably 150,000 miles from now. I wonder when that guy with the 3 million mile Volvo did the first oil change? For that matter, how the gently caress do you actually drive 3 million miles. That poo poo averages out to almost 68 THOUSAND miles per year for the 47 years the car has been on the road. That's some serious hardcore driving. That is like a 4 hour commute every single day for 47 years. How do you not kill yourself doing that?
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Sep 13, 2013 14:46
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Bob A Feet posted:About to drive 5 hours to Atlanta this weekend. I really wish the ST had a right arm rest. After having driven my 04.5 GLI without an arm rest for 6 years and now having one in my TDI, it makes a huge difference. I kept a coffee cup with a shammy container in the cupholder as a makeshift armrest.
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Sep 13, 2013 16:06
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akarin posted:yeah the Volvo has power, but it's just too smooth to have any fun with. the torqueband is pretty sharp in low rpm, but plateaus quickly and stays there until a steady drop-off around 5k. doesn't really help that I have it in an automatic transmission either. Just looking at it, it seems like there is a lot of wasted space on the hatch. How wide is the actual opening?
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Sep 18, 2013 14:29
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Phone posted:The rear glass. Great concept and it looks good, but the execution misses the purpose of having a hatchback. That's what I thought. So far the biggest thing I've managed to wedge in mine is a hood for my bug.
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Sep 18, 2013 15:02
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akarin posted:Well the rear seats fold down and the largest thing I've fit into it was a bicycle. My primary vehicle is a motorcycle, so not having a lot of storage space is normal to me. The car has plenty of space for me, but objectively I can understand how it might be cramped for others. Part of the deal I made with the dealership when I bought my car was to have the custom stereo removed from my old car and put in the new car. This also included a custom made encloser that goes behind the wheelwell. I like having a sub -and- trunk space
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Sep 18, 2013 21:34
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Atmus posted:I had a thing happen with mine. I had a small tire puncture that I didn't feel like fixing myself, so I let the dealership do it. They removed the tire, put a kevlar patch over the hole, and put a plug in it, remounted and balanced everything just fine. I was expecting to hear the phone was in the tire.
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Oct 11, 2013 14:45
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Phone posted:It's not the electric steering, it's the rear suspension. The twisted beam shifts from side to side and it takes a while to go from like full passenger to full driver in a left turn to right turn transition. I noticed this when I got my Golf after having the GLI with the lovely trailing arm suspension. The Golf suspension is just so much quicker doing any sort of turns. I do miss my Recarros though.
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Oct 18, 2013 14:51
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Recaros are awesome, but not 10% increase to the cost of the car awesome.
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Oct 31, 2013 17:40
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So I put my winter wheels/tires on yesterday. Now my car is a sad soft couch  Going from 235/35 19 to a 195/65/15 suuuuuuuuuuuucks. But I didn't want to take any chances with the all seasons after having a few really sketchy drives home last season. It's also supposed to be a really lovely winter this year.
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Nov 6, 2013 23:21
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triple clutcher posted:500 Abarth or Turbo? Not quite as practical as the Fiesta, but seems to do quirky in spades. I pulled up next to an Abarth a few weeks ago, and that thing is super tiny compared to my Golf. Not Smartcar tiny, but still smaller than I'd feel like driving every day.
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Nov 13, 2013 15:47
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BigBadBrewsta posted:The Fiesta ST is really nicely equipped, and even with the Recaros, it's a very fun car with most of the major comforts for under $24k. You could certainly drop a lot more coin on many cars that are a lot less fun or poorly equipped. The rate gas is going down and diesel isn't I've been tempted to try to find a GolfR lately.  
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Nov 13, 2013 18:54
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After driving in this morning, I'm not sure I need an R. Pretty sure I'd end up with a whole lot of tickets.
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Nov 14, 2013 15:34
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Snow tires man. These Conti Winter Extremes I have are absolutely fantastic. It won't be above freezing here until Tuesday.
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Dec 6, 2013 22:38
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echobucket posted:Now that there's a Focus ST and a Fiesta ST, I sure wish people would say which one they have in posts. *pet peeve* Meh, they're the same thing, just a couple extra inches. 
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Dec 9, 2013 18:12
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I dropped down to spare size which is 15", wheels tires roadhazard all in was like 700 and it came with a 50 dollar gift card. Build it on tire rack, print it out and take it to discount tire and they'll match it. Saved me close to 150 bucks doing it that way over just walking in the store.
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Dec 10, 2013 22:31
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Well hell. Looks like I got another year before the new Golf R. http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2014/0108/Volkswagen-says-the-Golf-R-will-hit-roads-in-2015
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Jan 9, 2014 18:01
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I don't suggest it. I got caught out -one- time on my Goodyear F1s and thought I was going to die.
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Jan 21, 2014 15:55
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jfreder posted:Ultimately the car won't keep summer tires. It is probably too much of a gamble to hope we don't get snow the rest of the season with it only being mid January, though. The thing I have been wondering is whether she should get wheels+snows or just have some all-seasons put on the stock wheels. Are low profile all-seasons worth it? Buy the smallest set of steelies you can jam on there. I run 19s summer and 15s winter. Just remember, you're much more likely to hit a curb/giant pothole in the winter than in the summer.
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Jan 21, 2014 18:50
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Sepist posted:I wish I had a place to store the summer tires You gonna die.
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Jan 21, 2014 20:02
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Sepist posted:5 miles home, didn't die! gently caress these tires in the snow though, gotta figure out where I can store these rims The one time I got stuck out on my F1s I was lucky and had already replaced the rears with all seasons. So I only had problems start and stopping but didn't have to worry too much about spinning. Still the longest commute I've ever had.
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Jan 21, 2014 22:33
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Yay, I get my TDI back today just in time for tomorrow's giant snowstorm. gently caress driving this Chrysler 200 with absolutely lovely tires on it in the snow. Body shop got it done a full day early.
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Jan 30, 2014 23:20
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My old GLI Recarros were comfy as hell, although they made your rear end sweat like crazy cause of the really tight weave.
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Feb 4, 2014 16:05
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I never get why people put snows on the stock wheels. A set of steelies and TPMS aren't that expensive, and then you get to drop down a size or two for that sweet, sweet cushy sidewall. This actually worked out for me on this car. When I go to trade up to the R next year, I'll be able to put my brand new stock wheels and tires back on the car to trade it in. They have like 1200 miles on them. Have been sitting in the garage for the last 2 1/2 years Sadly, my 15" steelies won't fit on the R. Should be able to sell em for a slight loss though as they should only have like 6k miles on them when they come off. Just need to decide if I want to use the stock 18"s for winter or sell those cause I'm gonna put my current 19"s on the R. I likes my Petrols.
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Feb 10, 2014 23:48
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APR flash.
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Feb 13, 2014 21:42
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Kill-9 posted:More 'not Ford' talk. I pulled up next to an Abarth a few weeks ago and my god it seemed like it was half the size of my Golf. Does it at least feel bigger than it seems?
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Feb 24, 2014 20:25
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I've never understood the obsession with three door hatches. People are losing their god damned minds because the '15 R is 4 door only. The only reason my current Golf is 2dr is because I got an awesome deal on it and didn't really care how many doors it had. Although somehow it costs me 10 bucks more for insurance because it is missing 2 of the doors.
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Feb 25, 2014 16:10
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Snowdens Secret posted:It's not just fitting people back there. If you want to use your rear seat to carry pretty much anything, and you're not dropping the seats and loading through the hatch, rear doors make it worlds easier, and some stuff just won't fit at all between a folded front seat and the single door. This is the reason my 2dr isn't that big a deal. I almost never have the seats up since I haul so much crap around on a regular basis. So far my best is 7 complete desktops/monitors for a deployment. Some of it spilled into the passenger seat though
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Feb 25, 2014 17:17
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:The really inconvenient thing about hauling poo poo in the Focus is that the cargo cover is really bulky and there's nowhere good to put it. Usually I can leave it at home or whatever, but that's not always possible. My cargo cover has been hanging on the wall in the garage since I bought the car. I need to order heater channels for my bug, but I have a feeling I'm going to have to remove the passenger seat to get them in the car.
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Feb 26, 2014 16:00
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8ender posted:Yes it is. It's a great engine. It's tuned to produce a shitload of torque at around 2.5k rpm which makes it hilarious fun. I often feel that 5th gear is pointless in both my current TDI and my old 1.8t. It's like all they did was push everything closer together and make 5th into 6th. If I'm passing I'm going from 6th to 3rd and when cruising I pretty much always just go 4-6.
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Mar 18, 2014 15:52
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8ender posted:The 2.0T seems to have enough grunt that it has its uses. I'm using it right now for cruising and lazy passing on the two lane 100km/h roads. I do mainly 6-4 though for most cases. I'm waiting for some more info to come out about the new 2.0t in the R. All I've heard so far is bigger turbo and different head.
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Mar 19, 2014 20:12
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How badly am I going to get hosed when I go to buy my '15 Golf R?
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Mar 28, 2014 16:29
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8ender posted:The ESP in my Audi can be pretty annoying in low traction situations like snow. Mainly because it's decision to fire a brake on one side or reduce the throttle is acting counter to the counter measures I'm already instinctively taking to control things. That's what is going to be so awesome on the new R. You can fully 100% disable the nanny system.
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Mar 31, 2014 17:27
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Why not do something like this? http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&ke...sl_9gq1l9wglr_b Heh, this led me to laser jammers which then led me to figuring out if it's legal here. Nope not legal in CO. veedubfreak fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Apr 2, 2014 |
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Apr 2, 2014 17:13
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Atmus posted:Yeah, you wouldn't want to break the law while you are... breaking the law. No no. I'm talking about the hidden plate mounts. I don't run a front plate, but at times it is needed. Like parking downtown where all the metermaids will ticket you for not having one. I don't park downtown so it's not an issue for me.
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Apr 2, 2014 20:54
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Any of you Euro chaps pick up the new R yet? Curious as to what size spare it comes with. Need to decide my tire/wheel situation when I go to buy one. I know my current snows won't fit, but I'm wondering if I'm better off just using the stock 18s it comes with and getting it with all seasons and putting some sticky summer rubber on my current 19s, or upgrading to the 19s with summers and just buy winter 19s for my current wheels.
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Apr 4, 2014 19:53
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Elwood P. Dowd posted:Jalopnik posted a couple of days ago that folks at subaru are already saying that a hatchback WRX is under consideration. Didn't take long. Here's to hoping it's as hideous as the last one. I still can't get over the fact that Subaru named it's top level car after an eyesore and VD.
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Apr 8, 2014 14:35
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:VWoA sold the A3 hatch in America for years and it was completely unsuccessful. What do you think they should do differently? Continue to push cars that people don't buy? I actually looked into the A3 hatch when I bought my Golf, but the only way to get awd was with a I must have my third pedal. It's also why I completely ignored the 08 .:R
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Apr 9, 2014 21:32
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Got the first spring wax and wash. Poor girl, she's on borrowed time. 8 months until the new R comes out.  Bonus, the original hot hatch, now in scrap metal form. 
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Apr 10, 2014 00:20
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