The Volkswagen Golf GTI formalized the popular sport. Unnatural, the Golf GTD what "it dieselizó". Today, the Golf reinvents its sportiness with hybrid version.

reviews the automotive history and you see that no manufacturer has managed to make such a global car in every way, as Volkswagen with its iconic Golf. A car and a name with aura. So well conceived and evolved formula that has paid for everything and has allowed all. All kinds of bodies and engines. Because they indicate the market or because it dictates the proper Golf. Remember that Volkswagen It has also developed its relevant electric version (E-Golf), so no other car in the world with such a diversity of mechanics.

But of all the roles that developed in the automotive society, sports is what has given him his greatest fame. The acronym GTI have their appellation of origin in the Volkswagen Golf. And obviously it is the GTI by excellence. No sport at their level in any of its generations so present and timeless. It is the perfect symbiosis of practical and compact rational sports. Without excessiveness. He GTI It has to be the sport for all and everyone. Specialist, but balanced and natural. There’s a Volkswagen Golf R for more bloody confrontations.

Volkswagen Golf GTI, authentic

Today the GTI in its most refined variant it has a motor Performance 2.0 TSI 230 hp, 10 More about the standard GTI. And as it can be combined with a change of DSG dual clutch 6 speed who sympathizes with his philosophy. Between the engine and transmission, the Performance Package includes autoblocante mechanical formed by a multidisc clutch which diverts more torque to the wheel with greater adherence, to improve motor skills and directionality closed curve. The answer deserves your engine.

He 2.0 TSI It is an exciting mechanics, for his drive and tuned exhaust sound. There is nothing else sports that a motor from gasoline. And with the times, with Turbo. The operating range GTI It’s formidable. You can abuse their low speed and I mean to monetize your response below 2000 rpm, what you find there is always a reliable push. Never seems to break the TSI with a progressiveness In its response, which is not exhausted nor intensity, nor emotions Arrivals to the 7,000 rpm. Alone the 2.0 TSI It is suitable as any driving that you want in every moment, from the most pleasant, even the most radical, always with a brilliant response numbers and shapes. It is vital in the GTI philosophy.

Volkswagen Golf GTD, the Diesel

Meanwhile, we have had to live like engines Diesel They have become the standard generalized cars our days. And it was not easy to assimilate. But the mechanical Diesel They ended up in segments luxury. And in the sports. Volkswagen She assumed to make a Diesel Golf GTI, the GTD. Today one of the engines 2.0 Diesel plus modern of the market, mono-turbo but unique in the world distribution variable exhaust, GTD features 184 hp, but more torque that genuine GTI: 38.8 mkg against 35.7. I do not know what you accept for sport, but it sure benefits and solvency GTD They are part of the requirement.

Nor need you character, when a step abrupt low to midrange contrasts with the linearity of GTI. Neither emotions acoustic, when your resonator from escape marks a sound mark if not authentic, with sporting identity. Maquilla as you can not imagine ambient noise, but the fact remains that can not hide its origin when you put it up: their vibes the reveal. Lacks refinement … but also you "spare efficiency". Is slower than the GTI, but no less carefree in any type of driving. But it’s a Diesel and soon, before 4500 rpm, its climbing speed is short.

The Volkswagen Golf GTD no roars as does the GTI To over 6000 rpm. Its power is much lower. No need to get catapulted many revolutions. His driving less stressful. Which it is the same as less stimulating. But the kilometers pass and do not have to refuel. It is not possible that a sports consume so little. The change DSG It is also part, if you want, the GTD. And it works as in the GTI, managing smooth changes and quickly adapting to the particular characteristics of each motor.

Volkswagen Golf GTE, hybrid

To all this, hybrids They begin to circulate in our streets. And also on our roads. The hybridization It is not a solution energy efficiency, also, the result is a technical reasoning in which inspire Formula 1, more cars advanced Y sports of the world. And it is the argument to give life to Volkswagen Golf GTE.

his heat engine 1.4 TSI provides 150 hp. Profile has 2.0 TSI scaled. 102 hp brings his motor electric. Together they add up to a power combined effective 204 hp. And as such, GTE accelerates. A lot. It is easier to see the GTD from the rearview of the GTE, than vice versa. He GTI It is inviolable. But it is probably the GTE he less sports if you do not seek. Even with the participation of motor electric, he GTE It appears to move to the sound of its engine 1.4 TSI. Which is something, but unless GTI Y GTD. Until we seek the involvement of its hybridization.

You are stepping on the accelerator harder and especially thoroughly, immediately get a jerk a "peak" in its push any effect Turbo of the GTI Y GTD it’s nothing. Operation and synchronization of its two engines is very elegant. No rings GTE what we have assimilated in sports the last century, as they are also questioned in this regard today F1. Everything is more fine Y silent. Plus refined. you do not need a DSG which it proposes more normally and simplicity so much modernity. That makes the vanguardismo GTE be magical when we shot exclusively on electric. It’s an otherworldly sportsmanship. Idyllic when we parked the sport and we just want the practicality of urban Golf.

Left the streets there are highways and roads. And Golf GTI and Golf GTD They show their best skills there. In the twisted paths, the GTI is he best. It is the most specialized and sports. especially this performance. I feel the slightest. And if you have apparently better than corner entry GTD, it does better output with a autoblocante mechanic active with whom you dare to advance long before acceleration that with him GTD, to not missing it a substitute electronic from autoblocante.

Even so, I do not feel the chassis GTD less elaborate, with you wheels with the same intensity and simplicity. They are not the Golf radical dynamically cars. And yes the most balanced. And more balance imposes Golf GTD on the highway open paths. not by chassis, by motor. his 2.0 Diesel I rotates filed with the 6th most generous. And its efficiency at high speeds and cruises is not surmountable or maintained by the hybridization of the GTE. Ballasting kilos (130 more than the others), Golf hybrid it feels firm to hold their greater mass. And that touch and confidence, you look riding with the same desire. But marks a front end you understeer you thought nonexistent in golf, especially in the GTI. And bacheando, its rear axle responds sometimes rather abruptly. It becomes more imprecise and penalizes the comfort of the rear passengers.

Even very well distributed wheelbase, greater weight leads to more commitments than in Golf GTI and GTD, I like the good sport of today, your damping It works well balanced in the most rugged asphalts. Instead its braking not strange. You receive through its touch and mordant conventional pedal car.

I do not know how will evolve the futures Golf GTI and GTD, if the Golf GTE is no longer his evolution. For now there is room for all three. Golf GTI there is only one, especially if you have known and you have it made driver who was the origin of all, back in 1976. But we live in different times. BECOMING different ones. Nostalgic, pragmatic, visionary? Choose your Golf.

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