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I have this exact car. Color and all. Pros: Drives very well, the turbo gives is a nice kick when accelerating. Its faster than i thought it would be without pressing down on the pedal too much. The interior is very nice. Love the heated seats, steering wheel and the whole interior looks and feels like its good quality. Cons. The outside feels cheap. Cheap plastic black trim thing around the car. The windows feel cheap. When driving theres a loud wind sound that many people have with this car when i look online. It sounds like the window is open just a little bit when driving the wind sound is that loud. Imo everything went into the driving quality and interior and they cheeped out on the exterior. Even the doors are loud when you close them. Driving is awesome. Interior is awesome, minus the loud wind sound when going 60kph+, especially on a windy day. Exterior is cheap, the plastic to me seems so thin, along with the glass in the windows.

I'm late to the party but my R came with Pretoria 19 inches silver. A "Canadian" R

Regarding Your Latest ATP, member Special, I just bought an eGolf and it has 240km of range even though the battery is only at 93% health. But it has all the extras like Heat Pump, App Remote, automatic mirror dimming, ACC etc. you name it and it was just 16500€ in Germany and mileage was just 20000km. I can really recommend that car and I also have the gasoline version as a wagon, but we never use

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I actually like the English Towns

Bro.. FYI.. The beep sound is to let anyone near by be careful that the tailgate is opening or closing.. Its something good for safety

Do some more car reviews Casey! At least bring back Neutral!! Fine, I'll settle for more neutral segments, done deal 👍🏼 . But seriously, miss you man 🥲

Ps4s tires make this car into what it should be. It grips hard with little wheel spin.

Thanks for the amazing video.

Aw man, TH-cam is suddenly recommending me Casey on Cars again. Bring it back! I’ll let you borrow my 2005 Honda Element if you need some material.

What happened?

Wheel spin is not bad compared to the mk5. Wheel spin is only for half a second til the LSD corrects it. You will get wheel spin with ANY fwd car.

this one are so much chiller and relax and zen than the first two

80% is better than 80% of the cars

Lol you really want that sun roof. In a VW, not having a sun roof is a blessing. They are easily a weak point in VW design, full of leaks and failures.

What a fantastic review 👍🏻

You could not be more wrong about the DSG! Have you ever heard of throttle modulation?

How's the Golf R holding up?

Nice review, Thanks!

what a fantastic review, thank you!

This is the color I wanted

a great vid, it captures the essence of the car - it's a driver SUV.

Casey, you actually have another choice. Being that you like the GTI, you can get one with a sunroof, then get an APR Plus tune which preserves your warranty along with adding around 60 HP & TQ. That will surpass the stock HP/TQ for the Golf R and you get to keep your warranty for a lot less money than a stock R (lacking only AWD if you can get by without it). If you want to get really crazy, get the R and go APR Stage 2 (as I did) and you'll have a truly insane performer in a sedate looking car for the cost of a Mustang GT.

Stock Pirellis are pretty adequate for the power of the GTI, and I'm no Pirelli fan. I didn't think 220hp/258tq would feel that fast coming from a 2017 Mustang GT but let me tell you, the acceleration surprises me. It feels nearly as quick at times, and I have more confidence taking turns because the back end wont slide out. The GTI is the perfect car for me.

Ostentatious? You are a Golf-R man. Great video!

Perfect sound. Why don't other reviewers use your sound recording system.- As for the R, beautiful car, great video!

Love the wheels on this model!! Stunned to hear you didn't like them.

Came here for a GTI review and it became a comparison with a car that is not even in the video.

I bought the GTI 7 months ago, compared to my previous chipped Focus ST I've found it so dull to drive I've just ordered an R instead. TBH if it wasn't for the fact my wife wanted to switch to an automatic due to arthritis in her ankles and shoulders I'd have been totally happy keeping the ST....

You complain to much.

I happen to love the wheels.

GTI 🇲🇽❤️4EVER the BEST

LoL too young for an accord.

If you are not that great of a driver you should stick with automatic. Keep both hands on the wheel and focus on driving. Modern automatic gear boxes outperform 90% of all drivers. Stick shifts are just mechanical masturbation....

12:31 minutes of repeating yourself about the spinning and 4wd, tornado red beautiful color by the way

I love this car, I'm driving the EXL and I'm loving it

ohhhh Boy there is another idiot reviewing a car... waooo Bro.. you suck at this.!

Totally agree that the 2018 wheels are Ugly!!! The Pretoria wheels are so much better!

FFS first world problems are just so............ Knob

You live in Michigan the all wheel drive is a no brianer.

you must be Jewish or something... bro I you suck at this. You have to go back to selling hot dogs in the city or something..

Have a 2017 GTI. Love it. Next week I am going to test drive an R. Thinking of getting it

Well! mine has a sunroof and if you would have tested the DSG option then you would understand why you look hopeless doing this review.

Nice video, just bought 2018 GTI with the DSG and love it... been a while since i have owned a VW...

I am with you on the sunroof. I would not consider a car without a sunroof. Also, I do not believe this thing has homelink which is another huge omission on a 40k+ car. Summer only 35 profile tires also kill this thing for me for, although that is fairly easy to remediate (not necessarily cheap though)

I love the rims on this car!!

AWD is for people that dont know how to drive.

An informative and thoughtful review. Enjoyed hearing about and seeing how the cars drive.

Casey, your friend with the Pirelli tires is absolutely right. I own this exact model. Came with all season Pirelli's from the dealer. Not the greatest choice, especially compared to a dedicated summer tire, but I experience NONE of the wheel spin you cite. Yes, I can induce wheel spin, especially on a wet road if I floor it from a dead stop but that's the extent of the issue. I'll eventually replace them with Michelin's as I did on my MK6 GTI but the Pirelli's are quite adequate and obviously superior to the Bridgestone's on your tester. I also have the DSG transmission. Until I bought a 2012 GTI with the DSG I'd always had at least one vehicle in my garage with a traditional manual transmission. When I replaced my 2012 model with the 2018 I didn't hesitate to go with the DSG again. I can't compare it with the performance of BMW or Porsche automatics but I much prefer it to other traditional automatics I've driven. And since I typically drive my GTI in manual mode any weird transmission behavior is user error. When I replaced my GTI last year I seriously considered the R. I think its a marvelous vehicle. But several factors made the GTI a better choice for me. Living the Puget Sound area I love having a sunroof. Around here we need all the light we can get in a dark cabin. And both the R and the GTI is nearly all black inside. The R offers significantly more performance but apart from the fact that I don't often use even the power of the GTI in stock form, I had a Stage I tune on my previous GTI and it gave me everything I could ask for. And then there was the price. I bought my fully loaded Autobahn/DSG for $32,043 plus TTL. The best price I could get on an R was almost $10,000 more. I just couldn't justify that premium. BTW, an excellent, informative review.