Golf 7 GTD...might come to US

[Aharami]

I want this car! Hope VW brings it to the US market

http://www.vwvortex.com/news/volkswagen-news/volkswagen-golf-7-gtd/

184hp, 280 pound-feet of torque and 56mpg combined European Cycle (~46 US MPG). Would love to have this car in 4 door manual

 

[phucheneh]

I've always been interested to drive a car with such an insane torque/hp bias. If you open the throttle up in the lower rpm's, does the car actually, like, do stuff? I imagine it will accelerate competently from just about any RPM, but there has to be a trade-off somewhere...can you actually feel the engine running out of steam before redline?

Closest I got to something like this was my first car- had a Buick (read: torquey) V8. Factory (old BS gross) ratings were like 300hp and 410ftlbs, IIRC.

It's kind funny- it took me forever after I started driving four cylinders to truly grasp the concept of 'oohhhhh....this car isn't that slow...I just have keep it at like 4-6k to make it pull!' Heh. I was so not used to the concept of 'powerband.'