In the next few days my Daytona Grey A3 TDI (184) will be going back to the leasing company, so I'll be saying goodbye for now! Didn't get a whole heap of pictures, but it did scrub up good on occasion:
It's been a fantastic car, and easily the best car I've run but thanks to a greatly reduced commute I'm leaving the derv behind and have taken delivery of a shiny new red Golf R:
I've gone for a decent spec (including the large screen nav, DCC suspension and Dynaudio) so it compares well to the Audi and isn't really missing any features that I've noticed.
First impressions are that it's ridiculously quick. A quick bit of smartphone vboxing showed a 4.3s dash to 60mph and 10.2s to 100mph (private road obviously). Phone accuracy and a non-flat road probably helped those figures somewhat!
Inside it's a really nice place to be. I actually much prefer the look of the dash with the nav in the screen but I have to concede that it's a lot less practical than the pop-up screen in the A3 as it's quite a distraction having to look down and away to see the map.
I've put 600 miles on the Golf so far and overall I'm really happy with the swap. It's a two year PCP deal though so I may well be back in a couple of years time...
It's been a fantastic car, and easily the best car I've run but thanks to a greatly reduced commute I'm leaving the derv behind and have taken delivery of a shiny new red Golf R:
I've gone for a decent spec (including the large screen nav, DCC suspension and Dynaudio) so it compares well to the Audi and isn't really missing any features that I've noticed.
First impressions are that it's ridiculously quick. A quick bit of smartphone vboxing showed a 4.3s dash to 60mph and 10.2s to 100mph (private road obviously). Phone accuracy and a non-flat road probably helped those figures somewhat!
Inside it's a really nice place to be. I actually much prefer the look of the dash with the nav in the screen but I have to concede that it's a lot less practical than the pop-up screen in the A3 as it's quite a distraction having to look down and away to see the map.
I've put 600 miles on the Golf so far and overall I'm really happy with the swap. It's a two year PCP deal though so I may well be back in a couple of years time...