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punmax Senior Enthusiast

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I approached the lights and looked to my right, it was a 2006(new body style) Volkswagon Golf GTI with black racing rims. So as soon as the light turned green I punched it and he did too, his car took off and within 5 seconds was a whole truck length ahead of me lol. Eh, need tune.

svensk Senior Enthusiast

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wtg four second delay!

Don't feel bad it will be different once you have a tune. I pulled hard on a NNBS LTZ 5.3. The guy was pretty flustered about it until I told him I had a PCM tune.

akfireman Enthusiast

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I think I see the problem in your picture........................................................ It looks as if your draggin' a ford, that will definatly slow you down......

svensk Senior Enthusiast

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I think I see the problem in your picture........................................................ It looks as if your draggin' a ford, that will definatly slow you down......

:lol::thumbs:

RyanZ71 Senior Enthusiast

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Dont worry, you can laugh at the Jokeswagon when he's on the side of the road from a blown engine. The new VWs flat out SUCK for reliability.

punmax Senior Enthusiast

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Haha I love Ford and Chevy. Whatever, its just a brand not like they give a s**t about us lol.

2000DV4.8 Senior Enthusiast

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The GTI's are pretty quick, and you can tune the HELL out of them. Especially the R32's. There's a guy in my neighborhood that has a supercharged R32 (previous body style) with 603 hp! The thing is crazy fast (600hp in a 2700 pound awd car), but breaks just about every other weekend. :lol:

tobias Senior Enthusiast

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Dont worry, you can laugh at the Jokeswagon when he's on the side of the road from a blown engine. The new VWs flat out SUCK for reliability.

 

We have a loaded 2005.5 (NBS) Jetta with the 2.5L. This thing gets 35 MPG on road trips and 25 around town. It has never had a single problem and is now pushing 23K miles. It will not, however, outrun anything. If you need your spirits lifted , Big Pun, we can run 'em!!! :lol:

 

Daddy

ws6_guy Senior Enthusiast

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well big truck vs a tiny small car thats probably got AWD ( not sure ) so dont feel bad, but go find him after the tune!

2000DV4.8 Senior Enthusiast

2000DV4.8

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well big truck vs a tiny small car thats probably got AWD ( not sure ) so dont feel bad, but go find him after the tune!

 

 

The regular GTI doesn't have AWD. Only the R32 has it.

fish4fun Enthusiast

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I had a 97 GTI VR6 and actually had the transmission replaced with 6 speed Euro trans, also had head ported polished, Euro spec Throtle body, Neuspeed shocks and Bilsteen struts, Nology hot wires, and many other mods. After that I went from stock 170 hp to 300 naturally aspirated and the car was so light that it pretty much would kill anything off the line and from rolling 30 mph start. My nbs 07 would neve have a chance. That car even after the mods was probably the most reliable car I ever owned. It was solid, but it can't haul wood or drywall. It could haul a$$ though. :)

Norseman Senior Enthusiast

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Dont worry, you can laugh at the Jokeswagon when he's on the side of the road from a blown engine. The new VWs flat out SUCK for reliability.

 

Just the new ones?? :) I'd say every year VW flat out sucked for reliability.

Norseman Senior Enthusiast

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We have a loaded 2005.5 (NBS) Jetta with the 2.5L. This thing gets 35 MPG on road trips and 25 around town.

 

That's it?? My wifes Malibu MAXX with the 3.5l V6 gets 26 around town and about 34 on the HWY. Those Jetta numbers don't sound so good to me. I'd thought it was capable of better. :)

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