Steve Walker Takes A Look
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Additionally, the infotainment supports both CarPlay and Android Auto, which I consider to be requisite on any car I will buy in the future. The Golf R shines on the road. The interior may be confused as to whether the Golf R is a luxury car or not. The driving experience removes all doubt about how it behaves on the road: this is a performance car. It took me almost no time to fall in love with how the Golf R feels. My love of the R began the first time I took off from a stop. I鈥檝e driven a stick since I got my license 20 years ago. Every time I drive a new-to-me car that has a standard transmission, it takes me a couple hours/days/weeks to really get the feel for that car鈥檚 clutch. With the R, I felt like I had already driven the car for weeks. The gearshift was also interesting. The feel in the hand was okay but not great; the knob felt a bit like a golf ball, which I can鈥檛 say I loved.
Unlike almost all other cars with a front-mounted transmission I鈥檝e driven, the shift linkage felt really good. It was way crisper and more notchy than I expected. There was one small curiosity about it, though: the lateral distance between gears 鈥?1st and 3rd / 3rd and 5th / 2nd and 4th / 4th and 6th 鈥?was very small. It was by no means a problem, but it was something I noticed every time I drove the car. All that said, even if the shift linkage was garbage, and even if the clutch was difficult, I鈥檓 still thankful that Volkwagen even offers a stick. I know that my time is running out with three-pedal cars, and I鈥檓 glad I don鈥檛 have to give up on my dream yet. When treated with a gentle foot, the Golf R is true to its humble economy car roots. It鈥檚 docile, reasonably quiet, and not too twitchy. The suspension is rougher than I appreciate; however, that鈥檚 par for the course when it comes to a performance car. The suspension is adjustable 鈥?and I did adjust it 鈥?but I never found it to be quite as compliant as I鈥檇 like.
The Golf R is one of the best point-and-shoot cars I鈥檝e ever driven. Perhaps the best. Even with my preferred but very-driver-involved transmission, the R goes where you ask it to. No matter how much throttle you give it. No matter what steering angle. No matter what speed. The Golf R figures it out. I took turns that were entirely too sharp, with entirely too much speed, giving the car entirely too much throttle, and there was no drama. Every single time. The R just ate it all up. In a straight line, the R is very fast; it will hit 60 MPH in just barely over 5 seconds with a skilled driver. The dual-clutch R, with its launch control, can do it in just under 5 seconds. All this in a car that can haul five people鈥?and a dresser. The only complaint I have is that the car definitely has turbo lag. If you stand on the throttle in the wrong gear, you鈥檒l be waiting for a while until the turbo spools; at which point, you get walloped in the back.
A smaller turbo (which would cost peak power), or more displacement (which would cost economy, among other things) would surely help alleviate lag. On the bright side, keeping the car in the meat of its power band encourages you to shift, which is the whole point of buying a stick in the first place. I could go on and on about how it felt to drive, but there鈥檚 little more to say. Every on- or off-ramp was a rollercoaster ride. The power of the R is, in some ways, its Achilles heel: you want to drive it at 11/10ths, and to do so will guarantee you are well outside of what is acceptable on public roads. So, coming back around to the beginning, what do I do about my BMW? When I drove the GTI, I was stupefied by how much car you got for the price. 40,680 MSRP. And in some ways, it felt like it should have been less. The lack of a sunroof is infuriating to me 鈥?at least give me the option, Volkswagen! While the R felt quite a bit more powerful than the GTI, it also felt like it was missing things for no discernible reason. Were I to buy a Golf R, I would miss the sunroof a lot. I鈥檇 miss it for easily six months of the year, if not more. Should I buy a GTI, I鈥檇 miss the Golf R鈥檚 power鈥?every time I drove my car. And, for the handful of snow storms Virginia gets each year, I鈥檇 miss the all wheel drive too. Given the life changes my family has been through lately, we鈥檙e currently exploring the possibility of being a one-car family.
