Ok, so after a few months (and ~3K miles) ... I love the DSG in the R. Heaps better than I thought it would be, and when I get back in my old Golf R32 (for sale btw
) having to use a gear lever seems archaic. Haha, not really, but you get the idea.I'm so totally sold on just sitting there pressing the go pedal (use paddles occasionally but it's a faff when coming to a stop having to drop 5 gears, although the car does do it itself). Sport mode is pretty good, use it quite regularly when I want to make progress.
I do miss the AWD a little, but simply could not get used to the new Golf's 4 exhaust pipes. It just looks gash, and would think about it all the time. I'm glad that I went for the scirocco in the end.
Other things I like: I quite like the interior, I don't have especially sophisticated tastes, so feel that it's pretty good. Don't feel as special as I did in the R32 when I first bought it, that was a real sense of occasion, as it was the first 'newer' powerful car I'd bought (previous motor was a Mk2 Golf G60 Edition 1).
I love the DAB and bluetooth (which if I'm being honest was what prompted a new car purchase after getting a hire car with it all), the sat nav is a bit meh, but have google on my phone.
She responds well to spirited driving, and I can really dig it. Getting used to what the car is telling me now too, so can push it a bit more. I generally have it in 'comfort' mode (another reason that I was getting tired of the Golf was that the suspension was bloody hard (KWv3)) and I'm getting on a bit, haha.
MPG is not too outrageous, seem to be getting 30.5 average, mixture of pressing on and chilling. Works out to around 280-320 miles per tank, but there's a lot of m-way miles.
In addition, made an overpayment on my PCP deal that brought forward the final payment date by 23 months, saving over 2K in interest alone, and decreasing the balloon payment by a fraction. All in all, pretty chuffed with motor; apart from a careless prick in an airport car park putting a deep scratch into the laquer in the first 2 weeks of owning it
.If anyone is on the fence, I can heartily recommend the experience
