VW Golf R Mk8 v Mk7.5: DRAG RACE

how much quicker is the new volkswagen golf r mark 8 than the mark 7.5 the one before it where we're going to find out by drag racing them over a sunny quarter-mile so let me tell you about the new golf r two-liter turbocharged petrol engine four cylinders 320 horsepower and 420 newton meters of torque it's got a seven speed automatic gearbox launch control it's got an upgraded all-wheel drive which apparently can send 100 of the power to the rear wheels when need be as quick as that it's also got two new diffs an e-diff on the front and an e-diff on the back for maximum traction and stuff as a result of all that mechanical stuff it's not the lightest car it weighs in at 1 551 kilos it's also quite expensive 39 000 pounds for a goal quite a lot that mark 7.5 golf from 2019 however was still pretty expensive it was like just under 36 000 pounds it's also got a two liter four-cylinder turbocharged petrol engine so in that the engine is producing 300 horsepower and 400 newton meters of torque it's also got seven speed dual clutch automatic gearbox with launch control and all-wheel drive though it's a older version of all-wheel drive which isn't quite as good it doesn't have the clever diffs at front or back either but that doesn't mean it's lighter it's 1483 kilos if my memory serves me correctly anyhow i'm we're gonna drag race them see the difference it's gonna be very interesting now before we actually race if you like watching german cars race and your german and you'd rather listen to it in german why don't you check out the new car wow germany channel which is presented by my friend dean over in germany he is a german and he speaks the german language obviously now if you want to do that i'll put a link she'll be clicking out the pop rock he's better at presenting than me as well you can actually talk i'm so programmed to say that i shouldn't be able to fluff it should i anyway it's up there you click on that link click on it go check it out i've also put a link below the video where you can check out our german channel and subscribe there if you're german subscribe there if you're not just to hear car wow in german anyway let's get on with this buying a new car then head to car wow and my team will help you find your next car at a fair price car wow your one stop car buying comparison site now before we get into the race as ever i'm gonna do a sound check so i've got this car in its sporty setting the r mode we're in our how it changes the dials in our mode to these rubbish styles look they're rubbish but at least there's no soft limiter not in our mode it's in normal mode let's have a look nope sounds better in our mode [Music] let's hear the previous gen golf rev up go on rev up you're going far has that got a soft limiter yeah just down about three three eight it's on a soft limiter now i thought cars were getting quieter and more boring sounding but in the case of the golf r that is not the case [Music] all right shut up making that vacuum cleaner noise put my window back up it's not particularly pleasant though this is way better isn't it let me know what you think comments below alex race [Music] he had such a delay off the line it's almost pointless [Music] are these even like related these cars that was embarrassing mess i've just done it on my own i definitely launched or time i launched a bit better it was a bit hard in that car you can feel it release so when you go off the brake and you're on full power for launch obviously there's a delay from that surge of power so i saw you just fire off the line and i was just waiting to let go do you know what i'm going to do this slightly differently i'm going to give you a chance to get off the line and see if i can catch you yeah i think that sounds fair now all these dual clutch gearboxes have a slight delay when you lift off the brake to them actually dropping their clutch so you have to preempt the hands going down to time it just right so what i'm going to do now is let him look at the starter and try and time it as best as he can and i'm going to look at him i'm going to look at the starting look at him and when he goes i'm going to release the break which will give him an advantage and we all see if this car is so much quicker than that one that i can still despite all that get past him and win and if it does anyone with an old golf r will be chopping theirs in immediately to get the new one okay star's hand's going up now i'm now looking at him [Music] ugh there we go this one has much less of a delay he was off the line before me but still i had him and i feel smoke and i don't know why i'm talking in a southern american accent that's really really poor it's a german car should be doing a german accent you didn't beat me that time did you that's mad you couldn't have been fairer than that i was actually rolling before you even moved that's just a lot faster than this let's progress i suppose so then what exactly happened well waiting for the old golfer to launch took me half a second and then the new golf r did the standing quarter mile in 12.3 seconds that's a total time of 12.8 seconds despite its head start the old golf r crossed the line 0.3 of a second later completing the quarter mile in 13.1 seconds oh bless it now we have a rolling race from 50 miles an hour the cars in their comfiest most economic most relaxed setting and call it in automatic mode for the gearbox as well here we go three two one go this wasn't particularly quick in kicking down oh hello oh goodbye definitely goodbye [Music] when this is like in its comfy mode and efficient efficient it's efficient evil efficient it really is just like oh you want me to go quicker are you sure do you really want to i'm supposed to be efficient and then eventually does what it's told and it does the job wasn't so embarrassing that time was it old golf no it's a lot closer but i think the longer the runway the bigger the gap at the end of this race i think there might be more of a gap now when we do the next rolling race this thing always changes the dials when you put it into sport it's bloody annoying that is just crap occasionally this thing is like popping up stuff in the dash and you might have heard it pinged in the drag race it was a boom area not recognized it's like trying to be helpful but it's not right now we're into the same thing again but this time we're in our sportier settings and with the cars locked in manual mode starting in third gear so i'm gonna count it in three two one go [Applause] i was picked up sweet i didn't have to change up it auto changes which is a bit annoying in a sports car it means i can just put that down there and just oh look to my side and see oh he's disappearing now [Music] this is so quick just warming up for the brake test absolutely smashed him right you got destroyed then but i've got a question for you do you think that the difference between these cars is just 20 horsepower and 20 newton meters of torque or does it seem like more from where you're sitting i don't think it was the horsepower i think that was all talk if i'm honest i could just see you pushing through the air easier than i was it didn't seem that dramatic at the start but as the speed gets higher and the wind resistance gets greater i could just see you pushing through harder so that's quite a lot of words which didn't answer my question do you think then that the effect is greater or equal to 20 newton meters of difference i think it's equal to exactly 20 meters of torque is making it that much faster okay let's move on i disagree i disagree with him i think it's more it feels like more okay now we're going to have a break test from 70 miles an hour when we reach line full emergency stop we'll see which car stops in the shortest distance so that's a bit lighter it's on 19-inch wheels as well so slightly bigger contact patch might help him let's find out here comes the line so old golf you won one in the end yeah i won that i'm pretty happy it stopped quite well now do you think that people remember the last thing they saw with the old golf winning or overall they'll get the sense that this new golf is definitely superior in terms of power to the old on yeah i think it's all about the power that thing's just a rocket ship the braking there's so many different variants but undeniably faster than everything else so you heard the man anyway now if you'd like to see an amazing offer that i've found through car wow on the brand new vw golf r i've actually put a link to it up there just click on that pop-out banner you can check out the offer the saving that you can get on this car through callaway also make sure you subscribe to this channel and hit the bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you will not miss a single one of these call uploads i hope you all enjoyed the video if you did please give it a like and if you click did it again no data for this aerial what's that all about anyway as i was saying i hope you all enjoyed the video if you did please give it a like if you click on those windows there you can watch more content and if you click on that box there you can go to car wow to check out the car wow drag race leaderboard to see how these cars compare in terms of their standing quarter miles two other cars that we've drug raised thanks for watching

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Id: 6alEQGuroiM

Length: 10min 34sec (634 seconds)

Published: Thu May 20 2021