Today i realised I really am not happy with my car, yes its good quality, its hard wearing, reasonable to run.
Now when I bought it I knew the Mk4 had a tendency to be dull, have
poor handling and lack any real dynamics in the chassis department, i
also knew the 4motion was notoriously undersprung and underdamped, so
when I was looking for one I realised I would have to mod it which I
hadnt done to a car for 10 years, I have done all this fitted
konigsports and r32 arb's and renewed the bushes, overall I thought the
car drove great.
However for the past 2 days I have had My old Pug 306 Gti6 back (I sold
it to my brother and he has leant it to me) and although its done 70000
miles (10thou less than the golf) with virtually zero maintenance, it
showed me how poor the golf is
TBH I am know seriously considering not getting an r32, as I think I
will feel let down everytime I drive a different sports car, I am a
driver I like a good chassis and brakes,I grew up racing karts, and
today I realised that the quality of plastics and interiors and paint,
and materials is secondary to what I really want in a vehicle. What I
really want is to stop, go round corners fast, and accelarate
efficiently as possible,
After today I am seriously considering buying a car that handles well
out the box, just to get over the disapointment of this, probablly
subaru or mitsubishi
Now when I bought it I knew the Mk4 had a tendency to be dull, have
poor handling and lack any real dynamics in the chassis department, i
also knew the 4motion was notoriously undersprung and underdamped, so
when I was looking for one I realised I would have to mod it which I
hadnt done to a car for 10 years, I have done all this fitted
konigsports and r32 arb's and renewed the bushes, overall I thought the
car drove great.
However for the past 2 days I have had My old Pug 306 Gti6 back (I sold
it to my brother and he has leant it to me) and although its done 70000
miles (10thou less than the golf) with virtually zero maintenance, it
showed me how poor the golf is
- Basically the peugeot handles far better than the golf, there is
true chassis feedback, if you want to understeer or oversteer you can, - The pug goes where you point it, in the mk4 its hard to tell were
you pointing it,you have to use the wheel as refernce sometimes - It STOPS the mk4 brakes are rubbish, despite the fluid changes etc the brakes are just to small for a heavy car.
- the golfs gears are all wrong despite being a v6, you cant get to
60 in second, whereas the little 4 pot pug can get to 70 in 2nd, but
yet they are bothing revving the same at 70mph in 6th gear, the golfs
gears are much to short - the v6 feels strangle next to the all aliminum 4pot, I know its
not a high revvig engine, but despite the low gears it feels positively
asmatic above 4000 rpm - Despite my chassis mods the Pug is still very rolly in the corners, it made me realise none of my previous cars were like this.
TBH I am know seriously considering not getting an r32, as I think I
will feel let down everytime I drive a different sports car, I am a
driver I like a good chassis and brakes,I grew up racing karts, and
today I realised that the quality of plastics and interiors and paint,
and materials is secondary to what I really want in a vehicle. What I
really want is to stop, go round corners fast, and accelarate
efficiently as possible,
After today I am seriously considering buying a car that handles well
out the box, just to get over the disapointment of this, probablly
subaru or mitsubishi