I've had my 1.4 golf now for a year and I'm still in love with it except for one thing...it being a slug.
I came onto it from a 1.0 litre corsa and it felt so much faster but after looking at the published 0-60 mph times on the net (14 seconds!) I couldn't beleive it was that slow...so I timed myself having a go...and it's true.
Ever since it's caught up with me how slow it really is, I often have to almost red line it to keep up with traffic on the motorway and I'm always dropping down to 4th to pull up a gradient on the motoroway, and even so, can only keep about 85-88 mph (M62 between Leeds and Manchester!). 90% of the time I drive very casually but now and then I need to pull away...but there's never anything there say if I'm in 3rd gear at 30 mph...you hardly notice and pull. I'm often tailgated by white transits (well, the Merc versions!) and have a go at loosing them but they keep up with me and it's embarrasing to thing they know I'm trying as hard as possible! So I just tend to drive slow and careful in the hope others think I've got something large hidden under the bonnit!
To all other 1.4 drivers, in your eyes how does your car perform? I had a chat with a guy the other week about them as he has one and he said "they pull well!"....I agreed verbally but didn't really concur in my head as to be honest...mine doesn't...taking into account I've driven my brothers 130PD TDI.
I came onto it from a 1.0 litre corsa and it felt so much faster but after looking at the published 0-60 mph times on the net (14 seconds!) I couldn't beleive it was that slow...so I timed myself having a go...and it's true.
Ever since it's caught up with me how slow it really is, I often have to almost red line it to keep up with traffic on the motorway and I'm always dropping down to 4th to pull up a gradient on the motoroway, and even so, can only keep about 85-88 mph (M62 between Leeds and Manchester!). 90% of the time I drive very casually but now and then I need to pull away...but there's never anything there say if I'm in 3rd gear at 30 mph...you hardly notice and pull. I'm often tailgated by white transits (well, the Merc versions!) and have a go at loosing them but they keep up with me and it's embarrasing to thing they know I'm trying as hard as possible! So I just tend to drive slow and careful in the hope others think I've got something large hidden under the bonnit!
To all other 1.4 drivers, in your eyes how does your car perform? I had a chat with a guy the other week about them as he has one and he said "they pull well!"....I agreed verbally but didn't really concur in my head as to be honest...mine doesn't...taking into account I've driven my brothers 130PD TDI.