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Shame it’s not very enjoyable… I was hoping this model might improve on the nasty, soggy, po-go motion that seems to start up in the Golf chassis when you’re pressing on. But it doesn’t… It’s still too spongy for our tastes, and not at all what you’d expect from a model such as this. The dubious chassis dynamics aren’t helped either by light, lifeless steering, and a handling set-up that’s biased towards understeer. What’s more, this car has quite possibly one of the worst gearchanges on offer today… The whole car feels like a missed opportunity to right some of the wrongs of the Golf GTI’s recent past… there’s no arguing with the continued success of the Golf – it’s just that people don’t seem to be buying it for the same reasons they did 25 years ago.

source: evo, 07.02

This entry was posted on Monday, February 6th, 2006 at 2:55 pm and is filed under Volkswagen, errata.