ElectricEye
Autocross Newbie
- Location
- Central NJ
I've got to say, looks wise it's more appealing to me than the MK8.
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Electric GTI
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mr wrong
Drag Racing Champion
- Location
- Franklin TN
What I want to know is, is it spicy?
Handguns4heaRTs
Drag Racing Champion
- Location
- So Cal
- Car(s)
- 2017 GTI SE DSG
one of the car mags said they changed the "I" in "GTI" to stand for Intelligence now.
Suspension and brakes.
It’s also been reported that the design of the GTI badge for VW’s electric GTI models will change - the ‘I’ being replaced by a lightning bolt to symbolise electric power;
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-volkswagen-gti-badge-points-electric-future
Nineeightyone
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Pennsylvania
- Car(s)
- 20 CX5 19 GTI 10 MZ3
I don't hate it, definitely better than the mk8. Hopefully we get a better interior though.
CaptainRatty
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Winston-Salem, NC
- Car(s)
- MK7 GTI
Ew.
Acadia18
Autocross Champion
- Location
- The Greater Boston Metropolitan Area
- Car(s)
- 2019 Golf R
I can't find the picture of it now, but no. It's not.
PerceivedShift
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Virginia
This review is a cringe-fest. If I had a dime for everytime he said spicy I'd be a rich man. Also "Coolest looking wheel out there" to some of the most fugly wheels VW has dreamed up. Also, while the MK8 GTI has its issues with the interior, performance-wise its every bit as good or better than GTIs that came before. So when this guy said the MK8 was "meh" but this weak sauce electric FWD "GTI" was "exciting" he lost me. I mean, at the very least they could have made it RWD. Before you say "then it wouldn't be a GTI"...this is an electric, nothing GTI about it.
I think the exterior is ok, it can do away with a lit of the plastic though. Interior...big as ugly screen trend hits again.
Hard Pass.
Also, nothing about these electric cars can be tuned, so what you get is what you get until the battery takes a shit.
Type_RS_59
Ready to race!
- Location
- Western NY
I read that it was designed by the same guy who did the Mk. 7.
Wheels are supposed to be an homage to the steel wheels of the original 1976 GTI in Germany.
mrmatto
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Jacksonville, FL
- Car(s)
- 2024 GTI DSG
I gotta disagree here.
1. There are already reports of makes planning to limit power from the factory and charge people to unlock more power, aka a dealer tune. So figure out a way to crack it and upgrade the power yourself. Same idea as slapping on a controller to run more boost in an ICE that is capable of making more power. Or buying an OTS tune from a third party.
2. People are absolutely tuning EVs, mainly via tricking the CMC. Also via inverter mods.
And you can tune the torque delivery, the cooling, etc. It’s in its very early days, but it’s happening.
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CaptainRatty
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Winston-Salem, NC
- Car(s)
- MK7 GTI
Yeah I have no doubt that software patch cat and mouse game will continue to live on with EV's.
PerceivedShift
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Virginia
1. Shouldn't be considered tuning or a dealer tune, just an overpriced add-on.
2. I'd probably consider tuning, but it much more risky or costly than say a simple tune which increases boost. The battery tech just isn't there yet, or cheap enough for 99.9% of owners to even consider.