MK5 GTI DSG review.

If anyone is interested, you can now see the report of my 24 hours test drive in the New MK5 GTI DSG.

MK5 GTI DSG

Hope you enjoy

 

Looks good!!

 

Did you win the competition then Rob?

Nice review

 

Interesting Review that...

top quality Rob!

 

"to" should be "too" when it means in addition as in "me too"
apart from that it looks good

 

I want one of those [:^(]

 

good review -the car sounds like a hoot.

i'll have to get the buggers to give me one fr a bit

 

Good write up Rob. Thanks for taking the time to put pen to paper (or should it be finger to keyboard!?!).

I must admit I've never been a fan of auto boxes on sports cars, just because I look upon them as being the "lazy option". Hot hatches and sports cars are meant to be involving to drive, and I don't think a auto box can give you this. However, I do like the idea of the sequential element of the DSG. This at least still allows the driver to change gear when they want to instead of letting a computer do it for you. However, I have never driven a car with the DSG so it could completely change my views on autos. I am very tempted to take a test drive in a mk5 GTI just to see if it's half as good as the journalists are saying.

So far I have only seen one mk5 GTI on the road, which was in black and being driven by some old f@rt. I still think they are over priced, but at least that stops them becoming as common as the mk4 GTI did. I really want to like the mk5 GTI, but that rear end is not to my liking.

Cheers, Jamie

 

Thanks for the comments guys

I have noticed a few gramma/typos aswell, I put the blame fairly and squarely with the editorial team

 

I was just fooling around on the new Golf GTi configurator [sic] on
VW's site. If I was to buy one of these I would want a grand total of
zero options. it has aircon and a CD player out of the box.



Be honest, what else do you need?

 

I couldn't beleive how good it was to drive

 

That would have been my old man then.

 

There's not as many as there was to start with though

 

Good write up

 

Good write up there

You just pay to little for your cars over there though.

I just picked up a Mk V 2,0L FSI Sportline on Friday, paid 21,5 K for a 2004 with 21K Km on the clock, new the sportline is 28K over here

 

You pay in Euros though?

 

good write up, car looks stunning, gotta say thogh, the dash is Horrible !!!

 

Nope, I paid 250 000 NOK, which is around 21-21,5 K depending on exchange rate

 

nice report rob