Very short review of a Golf 5

[pommes-t]

To sum it up: I am not impressed.

The other day I had to take the A6 to our dealer, because there was a misfunction of the CD-player. So I used the time to talk to a sales-woman and ordered a testdrive, which I made on Friday.

The car was a Golf 5 with some extras, 6 speed automatic and the 1,6 FSI engine (102hp). I wanted to testdrive an engine that wasn't too slow for daily use, but still economic. Well this engine was nothing of it. Of course, as a car-enthusiast I have the heavy-right-foot disease...

I kicked that car and checked out the tiptronic and the sportsgear. What shall I say? Even when I wanted to accelerate only a little bit, the engine was SCREAMING, but nothing happened. This car was damn slow. The 6 speed wasn't bad at all, but the Tiptronic is useless, because it still shifts down automatically when accelerating, although you don't want it too. Even when I was accelerating "normally" the car was about to rev up to 5000+rpm. But I would have been down with that engine if the fuel consumption had been okay. But it wasn't. In the first time when I really kicked it I got  20mpg, which is worse that our A6. What a shitty engine!

The rest of the car was as great as expected: The seats, the chassis, the steering, the roadholding, the brakes, the interior: Superb.

[AltinD]

I shall not speak, my heavy and fully loaded in options Passat has an anemic 115 HP 8 valves engine. It doesn't help with the fuel consuption either: I average close to 11 l/km and I drive mostly highway but the hardworking A/C contributes more then 10% on that 

[Raza]

102bhp to pull 3000 pounds mated to an automatic?  It's not Fiat Panda. 

I'm looking forward to a Rabbit with 170bhp!

[heelntoe]

I shall not speak, my heavy and fully loaded in options Passat has an anemic 115 HP 8 valves engine. It doesn't help with the fuel consuption either: I average close to 11 l/km and I drive mostly highway but the hardworking A/C contributes more then 10% on that 

might want to get that checked.

[AltinD]

might want to get that checked.

What I should check?

Is nothing out of ordinary actually. I live in a very hot climate and the A/C is working hard for some 9 months a year.  Since I've been driving the same route in 5 1/2 years, I can say that now after 136,000 kms, the fuel consumptions becouse of car aging has increased less then 5%.

Oh, and I do every service and maintainance work, including oil/filter change, ONLY to the local VW dealer.

[heelntoe]

it takes 11 liters of fuel to travel 1 km?
or is it 11 l/100km?

[AltinD]

  100 km of course 

[AltinD]

I'm looking forward to a Rabbit with 170bhp!

Make that 200HP and you got yourself a 5 doors GTI (with DSG :P), that for me it is hundreds times better looking then the 3 door version.

[Laconian]

it takes 11 liters of fuel to travel 1 km?
or is it 11 l/100km?

Were you thinking, "well, he lives in an oil-producing country..."?

[heelntoe]

yes.
ther are some times when i feel my scooter gives me worse fuel economy then a boeing 747.
those are the times when i have to walk it to the neartest gas station.

[AltinD]

Hey we still pay $1.7 for gallon 


... by the other hand we pay European prices for cars. Every big V8 powered luxury car or SUV cost north of $100k here.   

[FlatBlackCaddy]

I just did a short review of the rabbit, imagine the timing.

To sum up my review....

Its a VW, its underpowerd, its shite

[NomisR]

Hey we still pay $1.7 for gallon


... by the other hand we pay European prices for cars. Every big V8 powered luxury car or SUV cost north of $100k here.

Can you just pick up an abandoned Mucielago on the side of the street or something?

[Laconian]

Hey we still pay $1.7 for gallon 


... by the other hand we pay European prices for cars. Every big V8 powered luxury car or SUV cost north of $100k here.   

Pah! Mere pennies for an oil sheik!

[SVT_Power]

Can you just pick up an abandoned Mucielago on the side of the street or something?