I had the pleasure of driving a VW Polo TDI a year ago- okay, so it's not a Golf, but it's a fairly reasonable indicator of how the Golf should perform if it has the same engine, minus a few BHP for the weight difference.
That little car was the fastest diesel I've ever driven- 2.0litre HDI (common-rail diesel) turbo unit, and it flew. There's an annoying lack of throttle response but you get used to that. Basically, I'd drop it into second, to just over 1k rpm, and nail it. For half a second or so, absolutely nothing happened, then the engine computer would wake up and realise that you actually want to go somewhere. There's a short wait while the turbo spools up, and then, like I said, the thing just takes off. Before I knew it, the speedo's nudging 50mph, and the front wheels were scrabbling for grip on the road.
The power seems to drop off at about 4,000 rpm, which is about average for a turbo diesel, but the amount of power available to you is quite frightening for such a small car. I would have had a go at seeing someone off at the traffic lights, but it was my boss' company car and she would have throttled me if it didn't come back in the same condition.
But anyway, nice car. Although it doesn't really have much to do with the Golf, I thought I'd just share.
Oh, and the suspension was way too stiff for town driving.
That little car was the fastest diesel I've ever driven- 2.0litre HDI (common-rail diesel) turbo unit, and it flew. There's an annoying lack of throttle response but you get used to that. Basically, I'd drop it into second, to just over 1k rpm, and nail it. For half a second or so, absolutely nothing happened, then the engine computer would wake up and realise that you actually want to go somewhere. There's a short wait while the turbo spools up, and then, like I said, the thing just takes off. Before I knew it, the speedo's nudging 50mph, and the front wheels were scrabbling for grip on the road.
The power seems to drop off at about 4,000 rpm, which is about average for a turbo diesel, but the amount of power available to you is quite frightening for such a small car. I would have had a go at seeing someone off at the traffic lights, but it was my boss' company car and she would have throttled me if it didn't come back in the same condition.
But anyway, nice car. Although it doesn't really have much to do with the Golf, I thought I'd just share.
Oh, and the suspension was way too stiff for town driving.
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