VW Golf R v BMW M135i v Audi S3 v AMG A35: DRAG RACE

which is the quickest two liter four-cylinder turbocharged german hot hatchback over the standing quarter mark well we're gonna find out today because we're putting up a new volkswagen golf r which i am sat in against a bmw m135i a mercedes amg a35 and the new audi s3 to find out oh yes it's drag race time people so let me tell you about this golf it has 320 horsepower and 420 newton meters of torque the bmw it has 306 horsepower but 450 newton meters of torque the mercedes it has 306 horsepower and 400 newton meters of torque the audi has 310 horsepower and 400 newton meters of torque all these cars are automatic and they all have launch control every car has a dual clutch automatic gearbox apart from the bmw which uses a torque converter system still got launch control though in terms of weight they're all about the same over 1500 kilos though the bmw is pushing 1600 kilos price wise ranges from around 37 000 pounds to 39 000 pounds anyway we're gonna do a drag race but before we do what i'd like you to do is check out our new german channel yeah if you like the german sporty hatchbacks you will like our new carver germany channel sorry for this stupid accent if you're still watching german people click on the pop-out banner up there right to go check out and subscribe to our new german channel i'd really appreciate it and you'll get reviews by a proper german my friend dean over in germany okay enough of that let's get on with this race in english or sort of english small brummie similar though 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 do this race let's have the obligatory car wear sound check come on golf what you got i'll tell you what it don't got i'll tell ya what it don't god don't god is slang 4 does not have to be grammatically correct it don't got a soft limiter when you go in r mode that's a bit of rough hang rev up the bmw let's have a listen to that that don't got us off limiting either does not have to be grammatically correct i don't know why i'm doing this accent either right anyway come on let's hear the mercedes just about hear it okay now for the audi on the end i hear nothing and just heard the ventilation system in this car i imagine the iot sounds very similar to this ventilation system sorry already anyway which car do you think sounded the best i'll pop in comment below the video and i want you to vote in the comment which matches the car that you think sounds the best does that make sense go to that anyway and i'll get on with the race let's do it i've got a feeling this is going to be bloody quick come on go far oh great start absolutely destroyed the field oh my god there is no way this car has just 320 horsepower that's a load of arse speaking of arse my arse dynometer which is very finely tuned and calibrated it reckons this card it's gonna have about 340 350. how was your launch out here how did it go for you yeah really really hooked up that beamer he was a little bit ahead of me but then i just seemed to pull past him but you just spec you've got no hope for catching that so bmw close one between the audi but in the end no yeah exactly that i think i got a better launch because this does have a nice elastic band style torque converter mercedes were you in the race it wasn't the best it launches okay but it's just not as fast as the other certainly not as fast as golf this is like otherworldly in fact you know what i have specialist timing gear here i've got the results on it they're going to blow you away so then what exactly happened well the volkswagen won completing the standing quarter mile in an incredible 12.3 seconds the id was second with 12.8 seconds the bmw was third with a time of 12.9 seconds and the amg was last taking 13.7 seconds to do the quarter mile due to a bad start to be fair though the ng would still have come last anyway even with a great start as the best time we've ever had out of an a35 it's 13.4 seconds okay now we're gonna have a rolling race from 50 miles an hour with the cars in their comfiest settings and their automatic gearboxes in normal drive just chilling right i'll call this in three two one go come on kick down that took forever to kick down the bmw was off that mercedes is napping again here comes the vw golf though can i compass the audi bye-bye everybody definitely more than 320 horsepower gearbox on this was a little bit coming all right i'll change down now i don't need to hurry because i'm quicker than the others and then the others took off then this just caught up i went by hmm i bet you're feeling a bit smug at first bmw i really was i felt great and i was even beating the s3 but i was so taken aback by how well i was doing i forgot that you were in the race you absolutely destroyed me and it was quite close between me and us three wasn't it but in the end uh my superior driving skills which is what it was down to you know i held the wheel very straight and i kept my right foot firmly on the floor that saw me through yeah it looked like we all had a really slow kick down and then it looked like mine was just a little bit ahead of yours and i thought this is good and i started pulling past the beam i thought i'm gonna get a win here and then again just your little happy face pulling down the road away from us devastating and what happened in the mark yeah it just took what felt like a week to kick down and by the time it had you guys were just gone oh dear paul mercedes now we're going to do the same thing again this time though we're in our sporty settings and we're going to be in manual mode locked in third gear and i call it in three two one go oh the pick up on this is pretty intense i don't even have to change up it does it automatically that odd he really picked up come on is there enough runway to catch him is there enough runway come on come on yeah i've come past holding the brakes now blimey i'm really enjoying today for some reason i i can't think why howdy that was so close but i came past in the end that was a lot closer than the other races i think it really was bmw how was it for you it wasn't bad at all i think we all got a pretty even getaway that time and mercedes what was your pickup like were you like level with us for about like two seconds and then it was all over do you know what this picked up really well this time in sport eventually you guys just pulled away oh dear finally then we're gonna have a break test from 70 miles an hour when we reach the line full emergency stop here comes the line that was almost a complete role reversal mercedes you won one this breaks really really well hey thank god save some face for amg good stuff audi we've basically got the same cars though you are on slightly bigger alloy wheels so a bit more contact patch with the ground i'd say even though we've got the same time so or maybe your reactions are just better it felt really strong under brakes i'd say it's more down to tires than anything i think the curb weight above these is pretty similar that's probably a tyre thing and bmw you're the heaviest um you lost that yeah you're right i did but not by much and if i was this close to you in the drag race i'll be blooming chuffed so uh i'm not too downhearted overall i think it's a win for this vw golf r what a machine it is so quick for a four-cylinder two-liter turbo it's nuts i hope you all enjoyed the video if you did please give it a like now i just want to show you this look this is the specialist timing it data from the drag race can you see the north 60 3.94 seconds anyway if you want to watch more videos click on those windows and if you click on that box there you can go to car wow to see how much you can save on a new car thanks for watching

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Id: znpbth3CPJo

Length: 9min 16sec (556 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 13 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/emrys1]

Holy shit that golf is fast.

[u/LYC_97]

How is the Golf R so quick its almost as quick as the a45s, in carwow previous video the mk8 did 0-60 in 4sec flat

[u/andrewjaekim]

The VW group sure knows how to make a proper hot hatch and fast wagons.

[u/peakdecline]

I grow more and more conflicted on the MK8 R. For every bit of performance improvement they made it was like the devil forced them to remove an interior button or make the exterior more blob like...

[u/Alerion_]

Timestamp to race

[u/Ma_nee]

I know a lot of people that hate the interior, but I am not going to judge the interior yet, until I actually sit in one.

[u/clingbat]

So it seems the stock MK8 Golf R is closer in quickness to my stage 1 MK7.5 than a stock MK7.5, sitting between the two. They really wound the thing up a bit right out of the factory.

Shame they ruined the interior and exterior design in the process.

[u/Korilia]

Mmmmm i can’t wait to get an MK8

[u/JC-Dude]

Will wait for the Mk8 facelift so they fix the interior. As it is, it’s unacceptable.