All these comparisons to Porsche cars..waste of time with VW...
It has been said over the years by various heads of VAG that the sporty brands are Audi & Seat...NOT VW.
This is why on the MQB platform the Seat gets a more sporty Cupra brand (actual rally heritage) & has options such as monoblock multipiston brakes.
Audi has the RS & S editions on the MQB platform & again fitted with Alu sub frames, Alu wishbones, & alu monoblock multipiston brakes.
Yes the CCS & possibly the TCR swiped the MQB Alu subframe, but NOT the Alu wishbones & the CCS & TCR has certainly NOT swiped the MQB Alu 4 pot Brembos from the TT-S...
If this was Porsche with a Clubsport..you would have those lighter wishbones & lighter better brakes...
VW top "sporty models" will NEVER be more sporty than the equivalent from Seat or Audi...that's brand management for you.
So you end up with a marketing salemens wet dream...masses of hype....even the wording around the TCR "bigger brakes than the GTI"...yes but that option has been there since the 2013 as the PP option....& they are the same brakes fitted to the R & uses the same discs as the R"PP" & CSS...which BTW are badly designed as the same casting blank is used for both sides...so the internal directional venting vanes on side rotate the wrong way!!.....causing heat build up....
Who cares if its not at the audi level, different price point.
On the brake rotors, without a forced duct, the direction of airflow through the rotor is irrelevant (outside in or otherwise). With OE expectations (and cost considerstions) Its the lowest tech airpump ever, so being directional isnt even relevant. Put a temp probe on them and id bet there isnt a stastically significant difference.
To *me*, these are consumable cars that i expect to have 80% depreciated when im done with them in 5 yrs and 200k miles. Fun vs $$ they hit all the right boxes. Im not interested in every last ounce of performance if it puts the car in another price bracket. I have other cars that meet those needs, which come at a big multiple in cost. If this TCR gets an IS38 R motor with some badass CSS style seats and literally nothing else, around $35k, ill send the deposit tomorrow. 300hp with a factory warranty, good to go.
If the mk8 ends up being that much better ill pick one up in a few years. At this price point its not the end of the world.
Nobody here is buying these cars purly pragmatically, they do something different we all value over pure function. It's never going to be an audi S, M car, or AMG... NOBODY EXPECTS THEM TO BE.
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