[J-Ro]

Well, I might as well jump on the anti-VW bandwagon with a little story of my own...
A friend of mine was going back to TO from Ottawa and decided to stop in (we went to high school together, but I don't see him too often since I don't live in TO anymore). He was driving his mom's 99 Jetta... over the course of the weekend, the AC compressor broke down (making a strange gutteral sound at idle) and the passenger-side mirror broke off when his mom TOUCHED it (she didn't even put any weight on it apparently). After he left my place, I took the sea-doo out and came back to find out that he was back in my driveway with the front passenger door in pieces... turns out that the motor for the passenger-side power window failed, followed in rapid succession by the mechanical failure of the linkage from the motor to the window, causing the window to plummet into the door. We tried to temporarily rig it closed, but VW in their infinite wisdom makes their doors completely closed in with sheet metal so you can't even access the window! Needless to say, he ended up having to make the 3+ hour trip with the passenger-side window wide open
It makes me wonder why in the hell he's now looking at buying a VW... I hope after that comedy of errors, he'll reconsider.

J

 

[J-Ro]

...the VW's always weigh more. They need the torque to pull their fat asses around.

Hahahaha!!!! Brilliant! :rotfl:

I'm sorry but the GTI is far from competeing with the Si on a track. The GTI/SI is a drivers race on the straight 1/4, but on a raceway the SI dominates. The SI smoked the GTI by 115ft - 8 car lengths in a mile and a half of twisties. VW dropped the ball on the new GTI.

I have respect for anyone astute enough to recognize that the ability of a car is not simply measured in a straight line. :hail:

 

[J-Ro]

That's the SI's bread and butter, the raceway and autocross....hence the engineering that went into the handling aspect of the car. If i wanted a straight line car i would have bought a mustang. Sorry but straight line is boring to me, i'll go just to see what i can do but i have mid-ohio raceway 30min. from my house........can't wait to tear it up!:driving: :driving: :driving:

God, I couldn't agree more... any twit can drive a car in a straight line (granted doing it in a manual does require more skill). I live in a fairly rural area, and there are some nice windy roads that I love... granted I've only got an ex (wanted to get an Si, but time/money prevented that) but I still love that thing in the corners
My friend's mom's Jetta couldn't take a particular corner at 40 km/h without squealing all the way, whereas I regularly do it at 60 and not a peep. (Notice: I'm not a retard when I drive; I believe wholeheartedly that the difference between driving stupidly and driving aggressively is how well you know your car's limits).

 

[J-Ro]

I call my driving "spirited" im completely in control of the vehicle at all times and never do it with my fiance or friends in the car. I love going for early sunday morning drives on the back roads in ohio (besides all the bugs). Hitting the twisties is so much fun especially when you have upshift and downshift in them.

BTW- my driving idol is steve mcqueen ( the movie Bullitt ), so i like to double clutch occasionally.:driving:

Yeah, I tend to do more "spirited" (good word ) driving when I'm alone... same as I tend to crank up the home theatre louder when I'm alone