This is not a GTI. This is not a GTI. This is not a GTI Cross your tees and align your Elles, it's not that darling of #millennial generation boot-scoot: .. My First Big Boy Car Volkswagen GTI
There is not a GTI with a trunk either, despite what you might think
Nice touch alert :. the red line framing the grille extends into the headlights. Clever!
The GLI is certainly a good first impression. Split-spoke wheels with just the appropriate size tire sidewall too, a hint of red from the grid before it is a nice touch, Volkswagen, how the red line in the headlight housings. Subtle, sophisticated: a very Grown Up car. Junior shoots in the office park for his first day of his post-college job and knows his bosses, nestled safely in their corner offices, watching. Just to see what kind of young upstart they hired. L get lunch and PF Chang? Awesome. We can take my car!
Nice wheels. Beautiful new grille. Open the door and imagine four plaid seats, like the GTI-how cool it would look like? Instead, the GLI gets only V-Tex leatherette, molded carbon-look and framed in red piping for a uniform look like Darth Vader softball. I appreciate the honesty inherent in a cloth interior, but we believed for decades that same false Leather looks expensive. Even when it does not work.
The softball team Darth Vader would be called "The Empire Strikes Out."
Yet the illusion is eventually the first round in the parking lot because the exhaust note is the asset the most character of the GLI, with a presence unequivocal..! growls and tears and edgy sounds, exuberant Coupled with the turbo pssht when passing through the DSG transmission, and is the GLI again with first impressions, especially the impression that there is a serious performance car lurking beneath all that sophistication.
Even when there is not.
Angeles Crest Highway looks pretty good in the morning.
the GLI shares its engine 2.0 liter turbocharged TSI with his brother hatchbacked, producing 210 horsepower, with all the weight of its 207 lb-ft of torque ready to go to a single 1700 RPM. Underneath, it bogs positively coming after a shutdown. Then there is wait, wait, wait, wait, whoosh!
It seems best in second gear. Of course, Angeles Crest Highway, where these pictures were taken, is a third type of speed road ... and once you lift the throttle, everywhere below 4000 RPM, the GLI is as calm as ever . The DSG dual clutch detaches changes with an almost imperceptible speed, faster than ever. Volkswagen claims "upgraded brakes" on the GLI, but at least the calipers are painted red. They are working powerfully.
red calipers add brake horsepower. Get it
And the shock of the century: the entire chassis tends towards understeer. The XDS cross differential is an electronic system, available in the Golf range, and applies the brakes in the wheels-VW-speak for torque vectoring, and without it, the GLI might feel even sloppier. But as it is now, it lacks precision. The ride is relatively well composed, with little roll, but there are many of road noise. The steering is heavy, not as sharp, not particularly involving- not much to feel, no resistance to wear, heavy as hell to a crawl, but numb and incoherent move. Compare this to the GTI, the direction is consistent with speed, probably why it feels so rewarding as a result.
At least you can get it with a manual. The esteemed Mr. Kreindler and I recommended that you do.
Our SEL Jetta GLI rank in a hair over $ 30,000, reigning at the top of the food chain Jetta. Yet it still comes with the cost sensitivity built the automotive world griped when it came out. Hardboard doors, hit hard plastics, inflatable trunklid, a small screen the size of a pack of Orbit
But for the same price, there is a four-door GTI. And this is the complete package: the MQB platform is new, the interior is new, the touch screen is new, the suspension is more recent, certainly. I think this is what summarizes about the GLI: go on the Volkswagen website and look at their models. Skip lease deals on a stripper Jetta or Passat (with books!). Watch the Beetle, Eos (they still make those?), The Golf past. Take a glance: the GTI is its own stand-alone model, now show a serious intention to Volkswagen. On some campuses, the GTI is so popular that your first year entering average can go from one side of campus to another, entirely on the roofs of GTIs never touch the ground.
If you are a sporting gentleman get. If you practice, get. If you "drive with taste," get the plaid seats. Because cheaper sedan sports the GLI SE America begins at $ 26.920 with a manual is more than sport cheap.
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