Its grown on me, and im considering getting it in the future, but i heard that the VW engineering has been shotty lately. Any thoughts on this? what have the reviews said about it?

Oh and i love their ads for the cars.

vee dub. holding it down on the engineering tip, ya'll. yah.

I saw a presentation of the R32 last week. GTi is bullS next to it. and only 200bhp, come on, why did they put a turbo to get 200 bhp?

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So you don't have to rev it up to 8000rpms just to make power. The turbocharger makes the powerband more accessible, plus show me a production 2.0L N/A engine that makes 207 pound-feet of torque... then you'll start to understand why it has a turbo.

I like VW's. I've considered a 1.8t GTi. I like the Golfs better than the Jettas. VW seems to have a solid build to them. But, this makes them heavy. I haven't heard any reviews of a VW that they didn't mention how heavy it was. This goes especailly for the sports cars.

they look cool and have funny comercials, but i wouldnt trust the build quality and the price is too high

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i love the commercials

as for the car, its a decent car. they are responding pretty well to mods

My Fast, thinks German engineering is overpriced.

They are well built and are solid cars.

But have worst reliability than domestics...they've been on worst reliable cars lists fo years !

Then how are they well built and solid? You just said a contradicting statement.

My grandpa has a 96 TREK Jetta, and has never had a problem with it. I don't know know how people think they're so bad. I have heard stories about lemons with these cars though. That might be the problem.

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the old VW's are reliable. i heard that the newer model VW's arent good at all. thats what i heard though.

You have to do the VW hand sign just like in the new commercial...

they're good cars, my friend at work has a Golf GTi (I think it's a 2003). Really good power, he hasn't had any problems with the car.

My problem with it was traction. We had one in the wholesale lot at work, I pulled it out for a drive. Had a bigger turbo, different exhaust, aftermarket clutch, and somethin else I can't remember what the list had in the car. When it hit boost it SPUN the front tires, not like a chirp but like scary spinning the tires. After that I noticed that even my friend's stock GTi did the same, not to the same degree but if you gunned it in a corner you just went straight lol.

I would say if you're going to get one, a good investment would be tires. I'm not sure if the car has LSD or not (I'm guessing it doesn't by the way it handled) but I would say to get an aftermarket LSD setup if the car doesn't have it already.