Test Drives Volkswagen Golf V 5 Doors 2003 - 2008 Hatchback

All Stars
Volkswagen Golf Vollet 2003 debuted the fifth generation of three- and five-door hatchback (SM, 2003, No. 12). Equipients with 1.4 and 1.6 liter gasoline engines or FSI series units with direct injection into 1.4 cylinders; 1.6; 2.0 l. There are 1.9 and 2.0 liter turboodiesels. Mechanical gearboxes five- or ...
Avant-garde and Decembrist
In the most popular among Russian motorists, golf grade almost every company has its own promoted player. And on a comparative test here you can take at least two dozen models. We stopped at two: updated and classic. Japanese and German. Deserving popularity in Russia for some two years and won the whole world for another 30 years ...
Basic values
They are alike. Very similar. But in the profile they recognize them not immediately. This is the generation of the XXI century. Modern forms, lack of causing elements, verified perfect silhouettes. And it's not so important which of them is a Japanese, who German all steadily seeks to a certain averaged denominator. It will take another ten years and twenty, and the world auto industry will begin ...
Volkswagen Golf IV from $ 14.000
What are the good golf class cars? First of all, the fact that these are simple, reliable and inexpensive machines. Such was the Golf of the first generations. But the fourth generation appeared in 1997, literally denied himself. The fact that Golf iv is more expensive than competitors, it seems to be explained by its higher quality of manufacture and ...
Classmates of different schools
Looking at them, you understand how Multicoln Consumer Automotive Customm for the so-called golf class is one of the most popular in the European market. It is clear that they, on the one hand, must be popular, that is, available for different sections of society, on the other - to answer the most stringent standards. Also, individual features are also needed to stand out from the crowd that ...
Separated by the ocean
Dodge Caliber Fighting Hatchback as a serial debut in Detroit in 2006. In the USA is sold to the All-wheel drive version, in Europe from the spring of 2006, front-wheel drive. Loggers: In Russia, gasoline 1,82.0 l (149156 hp). Gearboxes: 5-speed mechanical (1.8 l), stepless variator (2 l). Completeness: P0, P1, P2, for SXT R1, P2. Price Basic Features: ...
Sweet Pickles
Seeing a bright couple, sharp colleague on the tongue: Bulgarian peppers! Well, let there be peppers these hatchbacks from the hot breed. When in the cockpit of a bright red squat golf, decorated with gti nameplates, you start to catch admiring views, not cute girls, and short, concrete guys due to ajar glasses tightly tonned and…
Money from bedside
When in 1998, the folkswagen-golf fourth generation appeared in Russia, the excitement on the market was treated grand. It seemed that everyone wanted to buy it only. Exactly a year ago, the fifth golf debuted in our market ... I submitted in 1974 to the public of the public golf first generation, the Germans themselves signed their sentence. Compact front-wheel drive hatchback turned out to be so successful that ...
Can the kings can?
This duel we all waited with impatience. New golf vs. New Asters. Somehow the kings of the most popular in Europe class, whose predecessors have recently look very pale against the background of the total attack on the Russian market of Japanese and Korean cars? The results turned out to be adultery. Familiar strank first glance, this can not be ...
With "fives" - in the next class
The new golf brings to thinking more than philosophical treatises. The latest achievements and trends in the automotive industry, technical finds and marketing contradictions all this came together in the long-awaited Volkswagen product. At its essence, Golf is simple and disgracelessly casual car for the lower class. However, how many passions and conflicts hides this ...

Video crash tests Volkswagen Golf V 5 doors 2003 - 2008