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- BUY, LEASE OR FINANCE A VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GTI CLUBSPORT FROM OSV: bit.ly/3nv5pBe
Want a more focused Volkswagen Golf GTI? Then you want the GTI Clubsport version. There's a little more power, a little more visual presence - and a lot more motorsport tuning care. Producing what many enthusiasts will feel is a very satisfying end result.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
00:33 Background
01:37 Driving Experience
04:13 Design & Build
08:51 Market & Model Range
11:14 Cost of Ownership
13:21 Summary
Background
The space between the Golf GTI and the Golf R is surely the smallest of market niches, but Volkswagen has for years been determined to fill it - and does so in the MK8 Golf range with this car, the GTI Clubsport.
To wonder why this model exists when for not much more, customers could go faster and get 4WD in a Golf R is to miss the point. Golf GTI enthusiasts often dismiss the Golf R as a hot hatch for bored executives, rather than one for the Nurburgring. They want something more focused - a Golf GTI with motorsport genes. The sort of thing that was served up in the previous generation range by the GTI TCR, those letters standing for 'Touring Car Racing'. Now that Volkswagen has turned its back on the TCR class, it's decided to return to the 'Clubsport' name last used on a Golf in 2016.
Driving Experience
This car feels properly quick, so that's a good start, the 'EA888' 2.0-litre TSI petrol turbo powerplant supplied here in its 300PS state of tune, which is 55PS more than you get in a standard Golf GTI. It's the same engine you'll find in a CUPRA Leon TSI 300. The power hike comes courtesy of a higher boost map and a larger intercooler, plus a different turbocharger. All of which gives the car a more energetic character at higher revs, where only 5.6 seconds is necessary to get from rest to 62mph.
That's only 0.7s faster than the standard GTI, but that isn't what you're really paying the extra money for here. Just as on a Golf tuned for club racing, lots of little changes make the difference. There's a 10mm lower ride height, which results in significantly greater camber for the front wheels. The front springs and dampers are the same as those in a GTI, but there's a new control arm mount, new wheel mounts and new rear springs and dampers. Plus the car's VDQ electromechanical differential lock has been re-tuned. And the front brakes are upgraded with the same 357mm discs and 2-pot calipers used in the Golf R.
Unfortunately, you have to pay extra for DCC adaptive damping (standard on the CUPRA Leon) and sadly, there's no manual gearbox option - which doesn't seem very 'club sport'-like - but the 7-speed DSG paddle shift auto has a shorter final drive. Best of all perhaps, there's a bespoke addition to the standard GTI suite of selectable drive settings, charismatically christened the 'Nurburgring' mode. This apparently was the setting that development driver Benjamin Leuchter used to lap the classic Nurburgring Nordschleife a claimed 13 seconds quicker than the standard model - in 7 minutes 54s if you're interested. You'll need to be a real enthusiast to really appreciate the difference that all this these little changes make, but if you are, you'll like the effect very much. Especially if you're on a track. Which, given the name, seems appropriate.
Design and Build
Inside, bespoke 'Clubsport' touches are much harder to spot, though Volkswagen has provided decorative inserts on the dash and front door panels; along with red contrast stitching with 'Art Velours' microfleece trimming for the 'GTI Clubsport' sports seats. Everything else is pretty much as it would be on the standard GTI model, touches like the pulsating starter bar and this grippy sports steering wheel with its three silver double spokes. Because you can't have a stick shift with this derivative, there's no opportunity for this model line's usual signature golf ball-style manual gear knob. Instead, there's a choice of either steering wheel paddleshifters or this short, stubby DSG drive selector.
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What is the current waiting time for a gti? All VW dealerships I check they don't have cars available?
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I ordered a GTI Clubsport in sept 2021 and it is scheduled for build in week 38 of 2022.
I ordered in August 2021 and it’s now projected to de delivered in August 2023!
I find it hard to believe that so many modern car interiors are designed with the central air vents set so low that they either blow directly at your hands on the steering wheel or at your armpits. Don't car interior designers drive cars?
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Mk 7.5 is the sweet spot. Cannot stand the touchscreen interface of the mk 8, it's awful. The laws need to be changed worldwide to enforce car manufacturers to ensure some features of a car remain physical buttons I.e. HVAC controls etc. Cant use a mobile phone while driving but I can go into a touchscreen menu and mess around while driving. How is that not more dangerous?
Why would you be messing with controls while driving?
Sorry osv good review but too many reliability issues with VW not to mention the ongoing diesel gate shenanigans.
Dieselgate was so last decade…
I keep reading about reliability issues with VW, but nobody I know has ever experienced them including me and I've only driven VW exclusively. Can anybody please explain?
@@ag8912basically the problems was the steering wheel
We’ve had ours 2 years now and after it was changed all the irritating little issues gone
Basically the filament which is around the wheel was faulty.
other than that it’s been 110% reliable
We’ve now had it stage 2 and all I can say is 458.9bhp with the TCU mapped makes a extremely capable fast hatch
The only time the golf mk8 R pulls away is from the lights, on the move is a different outcome
Its a fast hatchback, nothing more. Im sticking with Subaru. I enjoy driving but a car that can cope with every weather and road condition and lasts a very long time is far more important than trying to race around like an idiot every day. Once you get to a certain age you will agree with me, thats if you still have your license. Hopefully in the not too distant future, the lack of discipline on the roads will be ironed out. One way or another it needs to be done. Why cant people enjoy driving without behaving like immature, arrogant bell ends ?
It's very plain looking - especially in dull white like that, and those cheap stickers don't help.
VAG cars some of the most unriable cars in the sector hardly much motoring care then.
Cor! What a load of old junk!