Tuning the Golf 90 TSI - Whaddayareckon?

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Its a TSI engine Tee Ess Eye... Turbocharged Supercharged Injection. So it has a supercharger and turbocharger.

In the USA the GTI engine is called TSI and it isn't supercharged.

"Volkswagen’s TSI twin or single-charged engine combines our innovative and worldleading direct injection petrol technology with turbocharging. " Seems they forgot to mention the supercharger when it comes to twin-charging though.

http://www.volkswagen.com.au/vwcms/m...tsi/start.html

The 90TSI is a 1.4 Turbo, the 118TSI is the twin-charged 1.4

Turbocharged Stratified Injection / Twincharged Stratified Injection

I wish VW would make up their minds on what their different acronyms mean, although don't the twin-charged models have a red T and the turbo only models have a silver T... still a PITA though.

Personally I think the 90TSI will attract more buyers than the old 1.6FSI, especially in auto. The 1.6 was painfully slow. The 90TSI is almost on par with the 103TDI in terms of 0 - 100 acceleration.