Motor Magazine - BFYB 2010

[Maverick]

Drive He says/She says Review favours R over GTI for best buy.

Volkswagen Golf R | car review

Hardly a useful review when both reviewers were clueless.

Like 'HE' saying that ACC should be standard and would help differentiate it between the GTI, did 'HE' miss the bigger turbo, bigger wheels, Bi-Xenons and AWD to name a few?

And of course 'SHE' being unable to use the cupholder or adjust the sat nav volume which even the slowest of people would be able to figure out. Even went as far as to say it would stop her from buying the car.

BTW 'SHE' didn't favour the R but was torn between the GTI and the R. 'HE' merely said the R has more power and better traction which is stating the obvious with a preference for the looks of the R.

[elephino]

Hardly a useful review when both reviewers were clueless.

Like 'HE' saying that ACC should be standard and would help differentiate it between the GTI, did 'HE' miss the bigger turbo, bigger wheels, Bi-Xenons and AWD to name a few?

And of course 'SHE' being unable to use the cupholder or adjust the sat nav volume which even the slowest of people would be able to figure out. Even went as far as to say it would stop her from buying the car.

BTW 'SHE' didn't favour the R but was torn between the GTI and the R. 'HE' merely said the R has more power and better traction which is stating the obvious with a preference for the looks of the R.

You're forgetting that too many reviewers (I don't want to say all) take all car buyers as idiots who would, in this case, think that because the engines are the same size (2.0L) with the same number of cylinders that they're obviously identical. Plus you can't see AWD (and there's no AWD badge on the boot) and no one notices tyres anyway, they're just round black things.

Of course the reviewers, especially in this instance, haven't taken into account that 99% of R buyers don't fall into the above category and actually have enough brains to know at least the basic differences between the R and GTI.