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VW's new TSI engine

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    #62
    TempestSabre
    Registered Users Posts: 4,142 ✭✭✭TempestSabre


    No complaints about the alarm anyway :D


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    #63
    HashSlinging
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    Seen two of these over the weekend, one on the road it was the 140bhp with TS and a red "i" and also seen the GT parked outside synotts in Wicklow.

    The 140bhp seemed to have plenty of poke in it, it hissed away as someone in a punto tried to undertake it.


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    #64
    ciarsd
    Registered Users Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭ciarsd


    Bit pricey though, the list price for a 1.4TSI DSG GT is about €32K before delivery etc, sure a GTi is only €5K approx more..
    I dunno.


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    #65
    [Deleted User]
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    I thought it was cool at first but a supercharger with a turbo charger with all the extra bits in between to make them work together is just asking for trouble.

    Personally I would avoid it until the engine is a bit more mature.


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    #66
    JoeA3
    Registered Users Posts: 7,417 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    yeah, there's 5 grand between a GTI and a 1.4TSI. As well as the nice GTI styling bits, the GTI is also much better equipped.
    This makes the TSI look very expensive in my eyes.... it's still a 1.4 and when you go to sell it in 3 years that's exactly what the salesman will tell you too!


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    #67
    Henry Ford III
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    It's stupidly expensive for a 1.4 and whilst I agree that Clarkson "bigs it up" to be controversial and sell papers, he must geniunely have thought the engine a poor one.

    He has nothing bad to say about the Golf GTI, infact he's a big fan.

    If the power delivery of the TSI is even half as jerky and progressive as he suggests, it'll be a massive shame as theis engine nad technology appeared perfect for the Irish market.

    How can a almost 170 GT badged hot hatch be overtaken by a van?


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    #68
    HashSlinging
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭HashSlinging


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    How can a almost 170 GT badged hot hatch be overtaken by a van?[/QUOTE]

    VW have a van out with the 2.0TDI 140 bhp engine, if it was remapped to 170bhp and empty the thing would fly, with the available power most cars would find it very hard to keep up.


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