The Golf R fiasco was a mix of bad programming (too easy to trigger) on the early cars and knee jerk reactions from the press. The overwhelming majority of Mk8 R owners seem to be pretty happy with the wheel as it is now.    

I wonder if they talked to the Golf R team? I’ve always found the mk8 R to be more playful than the prefacelift 8y RS3 and assumed the main difference was just in the programming of the dif and brakes. 

The number of people on here that say they wouldn’t get one because there are better cars at the same price point - only to point out cars that are in very different categories proves to me that this car is doing it’s own thing.

It’s now capable of tail out drama and it’s certainly more focused than the previous gen for track duties.

Welding would be difficult because the frame would need the coating fully removed inside and out (boxed sections). This would be especially difficult with the wax like coatings that are common on truck frames.

VW/Audi did have a phase where they tired to hide all the exhausts early ‘00s. No one really liked that either.

I do think the seats are better, in multiple ways. The seating position is very good, they are comfortable and very supportive, which has always been the case - but to me this is up a solid notch, especially in regards to being supportive. The materials all feel high quality and seem like they should wear well. The…

The new R is a ridiculous amount of fun. I’ve been in Golfs/GTIs for many many years and across many generations and it’s eye opening how damn good it is. If driving dynamics are your thing it’s absolutely worth a look.  I think it’s a solid upgrade in many other ways as well.

This is actually a minor problem with the original mk8 setup, but it’s easy to adjust and work around by bracing off of the trim piece below the sliders. It looks like they purposely made the shelf at the bottom of the screen larger on the new one, but yeah I could see that potentially being a problem if the shelf…

Not sure how the new setup will play out, but as for the ones on the lot currently I would try to find one to sit in for a while or even use before writing it off. The mk8 UI controversy is majorly overblown IMO. I think you will find that the majority of long term users/reviews come around to like a lot of stuff that…

This is nothing new. Tons of drive by wire cars over the last 15+ years allowed part throttle to get started on hills. This is especially important with manual transmission cars. Most however do not let you apply more than a small amount of throttle with the brake applied and often cut out any throttle once moving…

I read it as a bit of an excuse of how they couldn’t have damaged the wheel, but clearly they weren’t being truthful about either so it all lines up in the end.

Oh you can bet that if there are that many problems on the surface that there are some awesome easter egg problems hiding deeper in that repair.

I know, I was looking at this and wondering how the hell installing it up on the pole solves anything, they didn’t even bother to grease the pole.

Philly would tear them down simply for the reason they get in the way of the celebratory climbing of poles when the Eagles/Phillies/76ers have any glimmer of hope of being in a championship game.

This place is not far from me. They have a 98 VW Beetle with nearly 60k miles that’s been hacked into a pickup truck listed at $19,900

This isn’t a great argument because the vast majority of ethanol is not used an energy source as the primary reason. The 10% ethanol in e10 (regular pump gas) is certainly part of the total energy, but it’s main purpose is as an additive. It adds oxygen to the fuel to allow substantially cleaner burning and raises…

That is not true, it has benefits beyond performance. As another post mentioned it also reduces emissions fairly dramatically at lower percentages (E10 = 10%), particulate emissions are improved quite dramatically (~30%). This is without the need for flex fuel systems and is the primary reason you find it at the pump…

Please research it and add facts to the article instead of baseless claims.

The joke here is that “real” sugar is more often GMO beet sugar and not cane sugar unless it specifically says cane sugar.