Test drive Volkswagen Golf V 5 doors 2003 - 2008 hatchback

Sweet peppers

Seeing a bright couple, the colleague sharpened sharply on his tongue: Bulgarian peppers! Well, let there be these peppers from the hot breed.
Sitting in the cockpit of a bright red squirrel golf, decorated with the nameplate GTI, you begin to catch admiring glances on yourself, not pretty girls, but cut, specific guys because of the ajar staches of the tanned and the burdened dozen. I so want to casually throw back on the back of an anatomical chair, cut the music and play, standing at a traffic light, listen and envy and envy. And then give ka-a-ak a place! Where are they with self -packing spoilers and humpbacked shafts.
Focus ST, it should be noted, has even greater potential. He attracts homegrown riders at least. A crazy orange color will pass even the most technically illiterate blonde. You drive up all such relaxed, imposing. And then again! Ka-a-Ak will give from a traffic light so that the creation sitting next to squeaks with delight and horror. A beer tummy and a noticeable bald head will be in the kit with such a car.
In general, cool devices, but we are at work. Therefore, from the temptations of the big city to the landfill. To special roads where no one looks at you, to devices that you can’t take on the Pont, to experts, whom you will not surprise you not like that.
Taste and color
If it were not for the scarlet kner, Volkswagen Golf GTI was just lost in the stream. There are many such in Moscow. Let not too zealously, but they buy the fifth golf. How is this different? Think about the lower, on large wheels, with a double -barreled exhaust pipe. You never know the people tuning their cars would be money and desire. And the caliber of release by metropolitan standards is completely indecent. And it doesn’t sound very loud.
The Volkswagen Golf GTI salon is also very solid and discreet: dark finish, gray seats. If you do not look closely. You will not see metal linings on the pedals and sports bagel from afar. And only a person in the topic will take a closer look and understand that in front of him is a car from a legendary family, with his history and his fans. Only the connoisseur will envy the owner of a two -hundredth engine with a turbocharged and direct injection of gasoline. Only the initiate will appreciate the settings of suspension and transmission, which were done not in the garage and not on the company, but at the company.
Ford would have enough one appearance. Aggressive plastic body kit, huge wheels with low -profile tires, squat planting, chrome pipes spaced at the corners of the bumper and, of course, color. They will look at it, turning their neck, even if under the hood there is a modest one and four. And what is the salon! Bright, redheads, to the color of the body, inserts in the seats, the inscriptions of the rosaro in the back. This focus does not look like brightly he just screams: well, look at me!
However, behind a bright screen, a serious and quite corresponding status of a hot hatchback content is hidden. Its five -cylinder turbo engine is 25 horses more powerful than the golf, the six -speed manual box works brilliantly, powerful brakes besiege the machine with an enviable slowdown. And what is the sound! It was deliberately achieved that there are not five cylinders under the hood, but all eight.
BIG AND SMALL
The first impression: the focus is much larger and heavier than the golf. Although in reality its advantage in size and weight is very small. But the difference in approaches to the settings of cars is great.
GTI is very vividly responding to the gas pedal. At the same time, the motor sings on a rather high note, creating the illusion of highly phoned, but small. Golf clings to the road very well, but the suspension does not please with comfort: she, as they say, collects all the pits. Therefore, it seems that the car is very light. The same feelings evoke a very quick and accurate steering wheel.
This is especially noticeable against the background of Ford Focus ST, which is struggling to seem like a healthy heavyweight. Its more smooth, but very very assertive acceleration accompanies uterine muttering so many -liter and multi -cylinder engines behave so. The focus suspension is softer and more comfortable, the steering wheel is not such a sharp complete set of sensations of a large, heavy, but very powerful machine.
The equipment deprived of emotions confirmed the actual superiority of Ford: it develops eight with a tail of kilometers per hour more, ahead of the Volkswagen in acceleration to the first hundred by 0.1 s, to the second already 2.7 s, is better accelerated in higher gears. And he is really heavier than 44 kg! The victory of the blue oval?
The asphalt will judge
Not so simple. After all, hot hatchbacks buy not only then to bullet from traffic lights, admiring fans, but also in the hope of pleasure from driving in pure, so to speak, alone with the car. Here, seconds and kilometers give way to emotions, since they beat over the edge.
A bright couple of turbine stitches on idle, cooling brakes crackle, and three drivers unanimously poke their fingers in a red hatchback: this one!
On the ring track, Volkswagen defeated an obvious advantage, losing Ford Focus ST only once. A more lively and responsive motor is brilliantly agreed with the transmission: allows you to accurately choose the transmission in corners and sharply accelerate on short lines. Ford initially puts at a standstill at what program to enter the next turn? The engine compared to the opponent seems thoughtful: while it is spinning, it's time to slow down!
The hard suspension GTI still diligently shakes the soul, but the car is great on the road, not even too flat. ST is merciful to the riders, but more noticeable, tries to swing and strives to slip off the trajectory.
The strongest side of the golf steering. As if you control a large card so quickly and clearly the machine fulfills all the wishes. The focus in high -speed turns suffers from a lack of feedback, and does not react so quickly, which is why the driver twists the steering wheel and hears the screech of the front wheels that have gone with the plow.
The focus still scored his prestige goal. Heated brakes with smoke and smell circle behind the circle reliably besieged the car, while Golf demanded to start slowing down before and earlier.
AFTER BATTLE
Have you worried, dovechers? Now home, to the family. Which is not needed by a sports projectile, but a convenient car. Moreover, civil operation by our five -seater ward is not contraindicated. The back is quite spacious, but making your way is not too convenient. Try to put your grandmother there or install a children's chair!
Golf’s trunk is much larger, but Ford can completely fold the rear sofa. It is generally more universal and better adapted to family needs. It is not so shaking here, the noise is less annoyed, lighter than the pedal. Yes, and he consumes gasoline 95th, and on the hatch of the tank Volkswagen large numbers 9 and 8
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As for the peppers, the colleague fell to the point, unlike sports brothers, golf GTI and focus ST, built on the basis of serial hatchbacks, are quite suitable for everyday use (the second is a little more), while they will make a piquant taste and bright color into the gray everyday life. In a word, sweet peppers!
Volkswagen Golf GTI is one of the golf configurations, in fact an almost sports car that will bring real pleasure to the sophisticated owner.
General assessment 7.8
+ Very good dynamics, perfectly coordinated motor and transmission, magnificent exact steering wheel.
- shaking suspension, 98th gasoline, in severe modes it is possible to reduce brake efficiency, noticeable noise.
Ford Focus ST Civil car with a very powerful engine. It delights with bright attributes, but does not live up to expectations in active exercises on the asphalt.
General estimate 8.0
+ Impressive dynamics, a rather comfortable suspension, 95th gasoline, the right front seats.
- Initerly behavior in high -speed turns, a high floor of the trunk, there is no central headrest.
 

 
 

 

 

 

 

  
Igor Solidov
 

Source: The magazine "Driving"