POMELLO YELLOW GTI MANUAL

Next, you’ll want to point the sharply styled front end (complete with a super cool light bar that ties the front headlamps together) towards some lightly travelled roads- the squigglier the better. Settle into the Scalepaper plaid cloth seats, snick the shifter into first and grab the perfectly sized steering wheel.

POMELLO YELLOW GTI MANUAL

We wondered where to begin telling you about all the delightful ingredients the GTI brings to the table, with the primary goal of satiating the hunger of its legions of fans? Do we touch on the adaptive dampers first, whose range of settings offer impressive bandwidth and imbue the GTI with the duality of all day comfort tourer or backroad apex carver? Perhaps we should talk about its superb drivetrain, starring a more powerful engine accompanied by a slick 6-speed manual gearbox? It becomes a daunting task in charting a course of exactly what makes the Mark 8 generation so good, but suffice it to say, it is a confluence of meticulous engineering along with the upgraded oily bits that make the GTI so rewarding. Until VW commits to a rethink on this, we don’t see the point of relentless complaining, so we’ll just stop here.Īfter all, focusing on nits to pick is too much of an unwelcome distraction from revelling in the goodness of this iconic machine.

While this issue is easily the most glaring, trust us, you do get used to it. To put it mildly, Volkswagen’s decision to go this route is vexing at best and exasperating at worse. Since you are no doubt intimately familiar with our recent review of the Golf R, you know where we’re going with this the utter lack of buttons replaced with touch sensitive panels and sliders. It isn’t like anything around the GTI’s helm is a penalty box- far from it. It is better in every way over its predecessor except for one key area- the cockpit. Painted in Pomelo Yellow Metallic ($495) as you see here on our tester, continues that tradition.

There were some lean years- Mark 3 and 4, we’re looking at you- but in 2007 VW got its groove back once again with the Mark 5 and the brilliance has been building ever since.

It is more than likely that you wholeheartedly concur with our assessment that this is the car that currently sits atop the desirability scale of the entire segment.īut what about the GTI, the icon that paved the way for the Golf R?įull disclosure- many of us in the Carpages universe have owned or own a GTI, and while we will never agree on which generation and what spec is best, we can find consensus in the fact that the GTI was, is and always will be what comes to our minds when spit balling which affordable yet practical sporty car we would most like to put in our own driveway. We recently featured the Volkswagen Golf R in the Carpages Garage, and if you devoured that review with the same enthusiasm that we demonstrated while in the process of sashaying down twisty roads while in the driver’s seat, you can safely call yourself a connoisseur of the hot hatch genre.

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