cbaumy34
Go Kart Champion
- Location
- Lindenhurst, IL
Still not a fan and at the price is save a few bucks more and jump to a golf R...
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The Golfs are, at heart, cars with a great deal of utility, and the sportiness is added on the GTIs and Rs without much frippery, like wings and side moldings and whatnot, so they both work well in the winter and don't look dumb doing it! Some cars simply don't adapt well to snow tires, winter wheels, or lots of powder and slush. The more gimcrackery on the car, the less suitable it is for the winter, IMO, and this is the same for the lower it is. My R is at about the lowest point I'd want for either the roads here (rough and cracked, and I live on a dirt road) or the winter.
If I was lucky enough to have the garage space (and, um, money) to have a second, summer-only car, it would definitely be RWD.
I could only imagine having to find 245/30/20 winter tires or how terrible it would be on rough pavement. My GTI is lowered on ED springs and it's too low for the roads over Jay Peak most of the year. All the different vents and areo parts on the Type R would get filled with slush and freeze. I may end up with a Si again one day but I am going to have to regrettably pass on the Type R even though I always dreamed of owning one.
I've noticed that a lot of Honda Civic Type-R video reviews i've watched brags about how there is practically zero torque steer and that the car can accelerate hard w/o even touching the wheel. They make it sound like some kind of new trick feature. Couldn't the GTI/R already do this?