Golf R 3 door/5 door speculation/information thread

[G-rig]

I agree that the GTI is the good value for say 40-46k but any more than that people may as well get the Golf R.

That's just me and everyone has different requirements and how long they plan to keep the car may also differ. Too many overpriced options is throwing money away though when buying new cars but nice to pick them up on a second hand car.

[fourmo]

I just buy the best performer for what I can afford.

After all, there are bigger things in life.

[WhiteJames]

Here is a thread from another forum that lists links to many reviews in the one place for ease of access:

http://www.golfrforum.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3.0

Second page of the review has some commonly asked questions.

Didn't realise that the boot floor height was 4 inches higher than the FWD Golfs.

Cheers.
WJ

[Corey_R]

Yeah - it's the case with the R32 as well. It's not immediately obvious when looking at them in real life - it's just less distance to lean down when putting the shopping bags in the back

[G-rig]

Didn't realise that the boot floor height was 4 inches higher than the FWD Golfs.

Cheers.
WJ

The R32 boot floor is also higher, and the foam sits around the spacesaver. Sounds like the R20 could is the same.

[WhiteJames]

Here's another review by the Hamster from Top Gear:

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/cars-motorbikes/tag/golf

Cheers.
WJ

[ccpl]

Keeping the large turbo cool demands a lot of fuel, as fuel has a cooling effect in addition to providing ignition.

Fuel has nothing to do with keeping the turbo cool in any late model fuel injected car. Turbo's are cooled either via engine oil, or via coolant and engine oil combined (seperate lines of course). Fuel never even gets near the turbo of any "blow through" (turbo compresses air before the throttle body) turbo setup (which is pretty much 100% of cars these days)

The only turbo's that were ever inadvertently cooled by fuel would have been the old draw through (turbo compresses air after the throttle body) carby setups - even then, the majority of the cooling was still provided by oil/coolant.

What you may have been referring to is keeping the fuel mixture rich in the combustion chamber, as to decrease combustion chamber temperatures. Evo's/STi's tend to run very rich at top end on stock tunes to ensure that they dont lean out and melting things.

[Tim]

Fuel has nothing to do with keeping the turbo cool in any late model fuel injected car. Turbo's are cooled either via engine oil, or via coolant and engine oil combined (seperate lines of course). Fuel never even gets near the turbo of any "blow through" (turbo compresses air before the throttle body) turbo setup (which is pretty much 100% of cars these days)

The only turbo's that were ever inadvertently cooled by fuel would have been the old draw through (turbo compresses air after the throttle body) carby setups - even then, the majority of the cooling was still provided by oil/coolant.

What you may have been referring to is keeping the fuel mixture rich in the combustion chamber, as to decrease combustion chamber temperatures. Evo's/STi's tend to run very rich at top end on stock tunes to ensure that they dont lean out and melting things.

running too lean increases exhaust gas temps. Aaaaaaand guess where the exhaust gasses go!? Person who gets the right answer gets a gold star!

[gtimal]

running too lean increases exhaust gas temps. Aaaaaaand guess where the exhaust gasses go!? Person who gets the right answer gets a gold star!

Extra fuel in the combustion chamber can cool the charge & nitrous .

Cheers

[ccpl]

running too lean increases exhaust gas temps. Aaaaaaand guess where the exhaust gasses go!? Person who gets the right answer gets a gold star!

Ah yes, but fuel does not directly correlate to the cooling of the turbo, which is what I was correcting.