I Bought A 2024 Volkswagen Golf R

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you're watching throttle house I'm James

and I've recently added a member to my

family no not you Thomas not I'm not Vin

Diesel okay okay anyway if you've been

following the channel you know that I

sort of daily drive two cars a rear

wheeel drive Mazda MX5 that doesn't see

winter and a rear wheeel drive Japanese

limo that most certainly doesn't see

winter

and do you see I'm going with this so

this is going to be a slightly different

video where I'm going to explain why

I've ignored all the other options out

there and instead put my own money on a

golf

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R the golf r a car that needs no

introduction on this channel it's seen

the road and our airst strip and our

track mult multiple times and 2 years

after we were handed the keys to one for

the very first time and one year after

ordering it I found myself signing the

papers to a brand new MSRP lapis blue

Golf R at Maple Volkswagen here in

Ontario who were honestly quite lovely

but with hundreds nay thousands of car

options to choose from as a do all

family car was this the right decision

well I had a lot to

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consider okay so the first thing I had

to figure out was shape and size three

rows were out I don't need that much

size crossovers the family

vehicle couldn't do it I couldn't do it

I couldn't bring myself to add to the

NPC beige landscape that is North

America when it comes to crossovers if

you've done it I don't blame you guilty

confession absolutely loved living with

that CRV hybrid I thought it was so easy

and so

great I cann't do it so that left sedans

wagons and hatches and I found myself

squeezing to so many little parking

spots downtown that really hatch was the

only way left for me to

go and then there was the new versus

used debate when I ordered this the used

Market was insane golf RS were trading

for 10 15 grand more than you and I knew

if I ordered it and just was patient I

could get it for MSRP so that's what I

did and now they've sort of come down

you can actually get them for about MSRP

so I don't have any regrets but yeah

that's that and then the bigger question

and probably one that you're wondering

as well why not an EV because every time

Thomas and I are in an i5 or an ionic 5

or an ev6 we say you can't beat this for

a daily Driving Experience the instant

talk the lack of transmission having to

worry about gear changes Eevees are the

best and that is still

true I still absolutely believe that

however owning one is a different

proposition and I think it's based on

use case and for me I'm driving 2 hours

in the winter minus 15 I'm driving 2

hours home from a filming spot I don't

want to add the complication of figuring

out charging I didn't want to do it so

that on top of some other things like

battery replacement even you know I

looked into an id4 not to buy but just

for research

and a battery was almost $220,000 to

replace and it's warranted for 100,000

mil or whatever it is but that number

hangs over your head in the head of the

next buyer and then there's the general

sentiment that EES are moving so quickly

and advancing so fast that buying one

now would be a crazy thing to do and as

a result of all of those things the

residuals on EVS are less than Stellar

is a understatement and this is my own

money we're not good tax people throttle

house I'm paying for this with my own

personal money and I didn't want to have

to stomach that significant loss that

comes with that resale is important to

me the Golf R actually has pretty good

retail value it also has a rather potent

turbocharged four-cylinder engine but

more on the performance in a minute for

me a big debate was all-wheel drive

versus two wheel drive throttle house

has always maintained that you need snow

tires you don't need all-wheel drive but

I figured a combination of both would

lead to the most confident winter

solution and the Golf R doesn't get

symmetrical all-wheel drive like Subaru

in fact it gets the front-wheel

drive-based hdex system like the Audi S3

that it shares an engine with however

unlike the Audi S3 this inherits the

Audi rs3s trick differential so it can

send a 100% of the rear torque to the

outside wheel which means the GOL R gets

fun stuff like drift mode and even in

town pushing it hard you can feel the

rear come around so it actually makes it

a genuinely more fun car than its

predecessor but because I went all Drive

ended up discounting quite a lot of fun

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options

not the 16 and 4 seconds flat very nice

can't do that with a front wheeel drive

car uh but no I I I honestly I missed

out on some some options there uh the

Golf GTI base I lived with in California

was wonderfully Charming it felt so

simple it was quite a bit cheaper and it

had The Tartan seats which I love you

can't get them on the

r there was also the fl5 typar what a

wonderful vehicle the accurate Integra

Type S similar vehicle those are things

that got discounted when I only went all

World drive but here now in Winter the

all drive with the snow ties it just

feels very correct and I I share this

with my wife who you know is no pansy

when it comes to vehicles she rips my

Miata she drives the Sentry like a

goddess um but we both agreed that for

this sort of vehicle why not just go the

easiest most safe feeling route I didn't

tell her about drift mode but and she

doesn't watch R house so I'm fine I'm

good I'm

good I also absolutely love the size of

it it's not just for parking there's

something about a hatchback I've always

fit it like a glove especially the

golf and I've said that every time I've

had a Golf GTI or Golf R press car I've

done Instagram stories saying name a

better Duo I'll wait I I think it's the

perfect perfect pairing with the diff

and the extra power you know this has

got 3155 horsepower it drives

significantly better than the previous

Golf

R which was already a good driving car

but this just took it to the next level

everything we've done everything we

thrown it on the track lap times drifts

it is just done it as Thomas said

welcome to the few not many hatchbacks

can do what this car can

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do and it's not just that not only have

I got on with this so well in our

reviews or in town or living with it

even things like the driving position it

just feels so normal this lovely

steering wheel with the perforated sides

and the flat bottom I tried to copy that

with my MX5 with an aftermarket

wheel the the throttle response is

better than my

S4 the transmission this DSG is so

wonderful and that's what I wanted this

to be it's I wanted it to to be the

antithesis to the difficulty that was

the Miata just something easy you get in

and it's easy and there really is

nothing easier to get into than this and

just get on with it and then on top of

all of that I actually have a connection

to the golf I grew up in hatchbacks

there's Nostalgia attached to this car

for me you know my mom has had a Mark 7

Golf GTI for the last few years she

actually just switched it out for a

t-rock Which is less cool but she also

had a markv and I learned recently that

I came home from the hospital as a

little wee baby in my mom's Mark 2 GTI

as did my brother so I asked my dad you

know is there any record of this and he

said yes there is I've looked for hours

I found you a photo here it is here's

you leaning on the steering wheel of

your mom's Mark 2 GTI and I looked at it

there he is look oh it's so cute and uh

that's my brother that's my brother so

my dad can't tell the difference between

me and my brother who is 2 and a half

years older than me so that's good

that's good and Dad if you're watching

this I'm sorry to call you out but uh

not that it makes any difference you'll

probably get annoyed at him for this

video CU you don't apparently know which

one of us is

which me James him

Daniel I'm glad it means the same to you

as it does to

me but nostalgic aside I I genuinely

preferred this over some of the other

options that still would have fit the

bill because a gr Corolla would also

have had the same sort of vibe as this a

Subaru WR WRX would have been a lot

cheaper or a Mazda 3 all-wheel drive

turbo in fact the car I was most closest

to pulling the trigger on other than the

Golf R was that all-wheel drive hybrid

Corolla it would have just made so much

Financial sense but then I ran some

numbers and I found something quite

interesting this Golf R spec exactly

like this in the UK was £52,000

that's £87,000 Canadian converted and

South of the Border this was

$47,000 which is

$63,000 Canadian so yeah once I realized

that this was a baby RS3 minus one

cylinder for 50,000

Canadian good bye

Corola

all right I don't actually mind that

this doesn't have a manual transmission

even though I like the manual

transmission in the new Golf R I thought

it was fun to use the clutch was good

the shifter was good the revs fell fast

it was great but this DSG is pretty damn

close this is a big statement to

Porsche's

pdk the shifts are so quick Town

shifts up shifts quick

it's just it's a fun transmission to

use and when you're not driving like an

idiot like this running it right to the

red line in every gear downshifting with

the

paddles it stays completely out of your

way it's very very easy to

use here's the thing every time we've

ever driven the golfar and compared it

to all the rivals that James was talking

about we came away at the end of the Day

saying that's the one that I would buy

and James actually did it he put his

money where his mouth is he bought a

Golf R and you know what he made the

right

choice can't believe I'm admitting that

but he made the right choice I think

this is what I would do I would buy a

Golf R it's fun it's comfortable it's

fast it's classy it's understated and I

think I might even get it with the

autom with the auto

with the automatic

transmission listen I tease but you've

made the right choice well we know that

cuz we said that the first time we ever

filmed it we all went home and started

specking our own golf RS yes um but then

this is obviously the speck I've ended

up with yeah custom to me yeah you

weren't very adventurous yeah there's

not many things you can do it comes with

everything fair enough you can basically

choose the color and the maybe not even

the wheels can you do like all the crazy

colors anymore like oh that's such a

shame that was only on the Mark 7 for

like a year I love that there was like

the Viper green and like the purple it

was just awesome well I I went a bit

weird with this one I went with the

lapis

blue of course you went with the blue

well I didn't go with it cuz it's blue I

went with it because of the name lapis

actually I think you went with it CU

it's purple no I've recently got into

water sports no you haven't I have and

this is similar to my to my uh username

on my Water Sports Forum cuz my name on

that is lais in my mouth

69 what what are you talking about wrong

kind of water spots oh okay we don't

have we haven't got to leave that in no

no it's a purpley blue this is a Golf R

classic color and I no it is it is but

how long's the Golf R been out for just

a bit of time half my

life no and so so these come with uh

19in estal n wheels that they they're

okay looking but for the winter setup

I've gone with the ptor which is sort of

the famous golf R Mark 7 wheels and it

it really works what's the name of it

they're ptas or ptor those in the no to

say

prets it sounds like a French restaurant

it does actually yeah ptor yeah like

tror is that Italian That's Italian

we're done anyway this is a German car

so let's bring it so this is so well as

a result of using the Mark 7 Wheels it

kind of looks a bit like the Mark 7 but

but I wouldn't dare say that because

Mark 7 Golf R owners love to hate on the

Mark 8 oh it's ruined the shapes all

melted it's got a light bar I'll give

you that the light bar is a bit EQ eqs I

like the light bar yeah Ford Escape has

it now yeah it stopped being cool as

soon as the other ones did it but it was

cool listen I don't actually dislike the

way that this car looks at all at first

I was like ew like all they all the Mark

7 guys are but then now when I look at a

Mark 7 I go oh it looks older I I think

it's I think it's a rare case where

they've both ended up looking great it

doesn't one hasn't aged out the other

and this still looks good I don't know I

think this looks really really nice I

like the look of these like they're

Sleek angry kind of but understated yeah

Sleek um and this is the winter setup so

I've got these Michelin XI snows on it

now so winter beast mode so you have the

XI snows I went with the uh what were

they the uh the the more performance

oriented the Alpin the yeah the alpen on

my M2 and they're fantastic but these

are great yeah I wanted maximum safety

yeah so I could live and my child could

live and I wanted to protect the paint

so this is about to go in I was say

you're going to get ppf yeah expel ppf

at am Motorsports so that's about it's

about to be protected I want to get it

to where my S4 was which in in my

parking app was called

snow after the WRX which was also the

WRX

snow I that's what I want I want a

winter Destroyer I love the little

spoiler on the back this what do you

mean the little spoiler on the back look

at the size of this thing keep it's

downforce it's ridiculous why is it so

big for when you're drifting at 10 km an

hour um but yeah some slightly

embarrassing things going on here yeah

that's one of them no that's not

embarrassing that's super cool no it's

pretty embarrassing but if I direct you

to this four-cylinder

engine you know cuz I'm not advertising

this car I will on it that's

ridiculous where's the engine cover

where is the engine cover James no no

but actually though like I didn't know

this where is the engine never came with

one what do you mean it didn't come with

they forgot to put it on on weight

savings no that's not look it literally

has the little tabby things for it to

click into cost savings cost savings

that's more like it I'm going to find

out the reason must be part of the chip

shortage yeah must be must be um look

this R badge there that looks nice yeah

well they do a different branding for

this one they got this nice R all right

let's get this over with then get get

inside it's a little bit like a sausage

I'm going to explain to you why the

issues with I have with the interior of

this car are not the ones people think

think okay okay when we first got in

here nice solid German door slam you

know it is right boom yeah see the

carbon fiber everywhere yeah didn't have

a choice didn't okay good this is the

extra carbon fiber interior pack if I

didn't want to wait another six months I

had to do right what other options are

there I think it's it's like a it's like

a fake aluminium looking thing I don't

even remember that this is fine I don't

mind this I do mind this yeah there's a

lot of piano black still going on what

is going on with that and the uh the

wing mirrors for 2024 by the way I

forgot to mention this when you lock it

they close in WoW hasn't been available

till this year didn't that didn't know I

didn't know about it until I saw on the

Facebook groups all right so when we

first got in here there were some

complaints we had yeah and some of them

are still valid for certain things most

of them are still valid so this one's

not lit this slider it's also a slider

it's also a slider yeah which is fine no

it's not uh actually I have a quote from

you play the clip forget about the weird

infotainment forget about the haptic

feedback who cares about the lack of a

volume knob you said it doesn't matter

that doesn't have a volume button damn

it quote uh but the issue you you ran

into on track was you started knocking

these capactive touch but the biggest

one is that like this button here comes

so close to where your palm would be if

you were at 9 and three so not just on a

track but like Canyon Run and stuff

right and if you click that R button it

will change the mode that you happen to

be in but for all the issues we I have

with this there's a fix so that one you

just tape the wheel right it's like like

a hockey tape yeah yeah before before

before the game you tape it up yeah 100%

um and then so issues I've actually

that's it really and this being a signed

is not a thing honestly the fact that

it's not lit is not an issue you just do

this and you remember where those are

it's still pretty dumb also I don't like

that to turn my heated and cooled seats

on it's a touch and then a touch even

when you said that it sounded like such

a small issue it isn't though no I

listen I don't disagree I don't use this

word often and I know it's frowned upon

in current Society because I'm using the

r word is bad but some of the decisions

that have been made about this car are

ridiculous I don't know why they've gone

about it the way they have and they

could have gone more simple VW is

supposed to be the guys that make make

something that just makes sense just

makes sense don't mess with it it was

fine so here are my actual issues okay

number one yeah this up when I first

drove the base GTI in California yeah I

said that I missed the dynamic dampers

and I missed the fact that it hadn't it

didn't have the upgraded sound system

yes I was wrong about one of those

things this card and sound system yeah

is terrible oh and in fact on our

clubhouse Discord we we we started a

roast my car section we did and I was

too afraid to roast anybody I felt bad

immediately everyone's been way too nice

on there but one guy posted a golf four

and I was like sound system is made of

Twigs great roast CH I just felt

terrible roasted because he didn't know

that I also felt his pain and there's a

certain EQ you can put the Harmon Card

out that makes it a bit better but it's

a not good enough upgrade of a sound

system uh and the only other fix that

I've figured out for it is that same

thing I did when I was 17 in my Vox or

corser I don't want to know I don't know

about that only only

play stuff that's Treo so that's why I

listen to The Beatles on repeat right

until I was about 19 yeah okay so that's

the other thing the the other issues are

some things just don't seem to want to

work the uh first of all this wireless

charger takes a leaf out of the x7s book

or every other wireless charger ever

boils my phone and then it gives up and

says uh please move some of the stuff

that's blocking the phone in the area

where nothing is blocking it it's just

its way of saying 100% it's you it's you

and it's it refuses to charge it's got

to be the biggest Sham in modern cars is

wireless chargers the wireless carplay

works so my MX5 it just drops works

sometimes phone calls and audio

decide nah nah nah and then I have to do

the handset on speaker and then other

times just with music you'll be

listening to music and it'll just it

would just go over there for a

minute just go in the corner you have

Elton John hi I'm here

it and then it doesn't come back as

quickly it slowly makes its way back you

don't notice it until it does it again

20 minutes later it's most ridiculous

software issue and those are the actual

issues because I've I've got used to the

interface I I really like the gauge

cluster it's quite you it's quite

customizable with all the different

views um it's still not satisfying to

press a capactive touch Steering Wheel

no question um and maybe I'm the schmuck

because there for the next year for 2025

model year They're bringing back

physical buttons on the steering wheel

so I'm going to look at maybe

retrofitting if I can if I remember

right yeah so to turn the traction

control off you have to swipe down no

not anymore it's more hidden now no it

isn't that's where it used to be where

where is it now uh now it's

in oh no it's here you go you press this

little iPhone button yeah and you go to

vehicle okay and then when you're in

vehicle two okay you go to you have to

swipe there sorry sorry right sorry just

back up for a second no it's a very

simple seven-step process no I just need

to know that I just want the world to

know that the Volkswagen has put the

traction control system under a

subheading under exterior called

brakes yeah

that's where the ESC okay yeah that's

done but we realized afterwards that the

widgets are changeable in the drop down

so yeah you can just replace the widgets

that are currently there and put the ESC

back in the dropdown it's still a few

clicks but it's not seven so as I said

some of the things a bit strange however

for my great car though great car it's a

fantastic car it is it is I actually

really like it I'd still probably buy it

all right conclusion

time okay so money where my mouth is and

all that I did it I bought the golf was

it the only option no but in the end it

was the one that made the most sense in

my mind from the season and sharing

friendly memory heated and ventilated

seats to the compact size and the pep

and the DSG transmission It just fits my

life like a glove will that change I

don't know to be honest will a German

hatchback that already has forums and

Facebook groups full of little Electric

Gremlins be good to me um watch this

space I guess thanks for

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