Choice of new car

[ereeiz]

What do you think of it? I always feel underwhelmed in 20vT's, they seem to take forever to rev up and actually get anywhere. Never been in an S3 but a mate has the quattro sport 180bhp and tbh I don't know why he bothered, his old GTI-6 was quicker and cheaper.
Come to think of it, I once went in a mates Cupra -R that was remapped (~280BHP?) and I remember thinking it had impressive 60mph+ acceleration but just wheelspin all the time below it. Might be pretty good in an S3!

[Jezza-7]

Its rapid off the line, my mate has the 20v t in a mk2 golf with a quaife diff and 2 boost setings and it beats that up to around 60-70 then his golf gets past. Both running 265/270bhp. If im next to him and both put are foots down, in same gear around 3k, its slow but thats prob due to being 500kgs heavier and it being 4wd. I think my g40 would be not too far behind to be honest.

Gets good mpg as well. 40+ on motorway and i had 520 miles to a full tank (60 litres approx)

Nice car to drive and very comfy. Expensive to fix but then im used to old cars and doing it all myself. Having clutch done and thats costing £400 incl vat etc.

[Max]

Loved my S3



Understeer is fairly bad as standard, but I had some Eibach arbs, really made a difference.