07-04-2017, 10:12 AM | #231 |
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Not sure, but I may not have read it if you did. Or can't remember.
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07-04-2017, 10:14 AM | #232 |
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The plaid looks terrible
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07-04-2017, 10:25 AM | #233 |
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I'm not totally sold on the styling of the latest GTI, but I have to stick up for the plaid. The plaid is great.
My first car, in 1994, was an '87 Oldsmobile Calais. TD, your daughter would be much better served by one of these than a seven-year-old smoker's car with a broken tape deck. |
07-04-2017, 11:28 AM | #234 |
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07-04-2017, 11:44 AM | #235 |
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Love the plaid.
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07-04-2017, 01:08 PM | #236 |
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We all learned from spaceballs that plaid is fast.
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07-07-2017, 09:20 PM | #237 |
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Drove another tonight. Very different. I liked it quite a bit. It's not perfect, it has some distinct flaws. But it's really pretty nice. And at the discounted prices, it seems like a no-brained.
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07-07-2017, 09:23 PM | #238 |
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What was different?
Wonder if the other one still had shipping blocks installed? |
07-07-2017, 10:07 PM | #239 | |
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2016 Golf R test drive--no dice
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Same settings (sport) but the throttle behavior was very different. That made everything else feel different I think. I had fun blasting around in it. But it wasn't a suspension thing in the blue one. Just dog slow unless I really leaned in to the pedal hard. What's funny is my daughter drove it first. After 10 min the salesman pointed out the mode button and we switched it to sport. Immediately my daughter remarked how much better the throttle behavior was. "Before it was responding like the Toyota (our friends) have. Now it feels more like one of *our* cars." I laughed. Now to go through the hassle of negotiating... |
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07-08-2017, 05:24 AM | #240 |
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We keep ours in 'sport'. It doesn't affect speed much (that is solved by APR) but the less delayed response allows better shift quality.
The thing to appreciate in that car is to give it moderate throttle in turns and feel it do something almost no other front-driver does: get sucked into the apex and hold the line. Also - for my personal taste - I highly recommend the APR low output program (295hp) though I can see that doesn't work in your use case. She's a good driver, right? Even stock it is a good bit of speed for a teenager. If you continue to drive the e39, you will be jealous. Very. It's a high quality car in my view and hard to beat for the money. Cara wanted plaid though we ended up with leather/SE. Coming up to 8k now. |
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