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Not as long as my Ferrari 458 or Honda HSC reviews, but this was done with half the time…
Golf GTI RM review:
Before-
‘This is the Golf GTI RM, the ultimate hot hatch. You can forget the 147, you can forget the C4 or any other hot hatch you care to mention, this will beat just about everything’. This is what I said was my first impressions of this car when I reviewed it for RKM. And even after driving just about every one of their cars and some of JG’s fastest, it still holds true. It feels like its got a stick of dynamite shoved up its 🤬 and will run rings around every FF car you could think off. Be it a 600+hp SRT4 or a Integra Type R RM, it’ll beat them all around a track. Part of that is due to the light weight, it only weighs ~900kg, part of that is due to the tires, but mostly, it is due to the gearbox. The ratios are set so closely together there are barely any gaps left in between. The downside is that the top speed is just over 130mph, the upsides though, are that when you enter, exit, or just touch the throttle, it’ll go BANG! and hit the redline with all 312hp and explode forwards. And don’t think it can’t handle bends either. The combination of those racing soft tires and the aerodynamic grip means that pinned to the road no matter how hard you fling it around. Laptime wise, it lapped the TGTT in a relatively quick 1:13.118, and if we remember, the NSX-R, on sport softs, did a 1:10.xxx. So it’s a car that feels very fast, until you look at the laptimes. And if I were to complain about anything on this, it would be the fact that the gearbox, yea it makes this car go like a *******, but it’s far too short for this track. You hit the limiter before you even get to the brake point. And…that’s about it for improvements. Still, let’s see what the tune does.
After-
‘It's an FF. It will understeer. And will continue to do so until we can change the laws of physics.’ Don’t think so mate
This will not do anything other than stick to its rightful place in the road. It’s got even more downforce and even more grip, and as a result, is (obviously) faster. Ok, it doesn’t go down the straights as quickly with the longer gears, but in the corners, it more than makes up for it by just gripping to the apex where the stock one would run wide. It also beats the stock car on the straight. Although the stock one will get the head start with the gear settings, this will just walk past as the normal one, which bangs on the limiter at 125mph, while doing 134+mph. So it’s fast, it can corner and most importantly of all, it’s fun. It’s not the lift-off-oversteer-if-you-corner-too-hard type of fun, more of the grip-to-the-end-of-the-world-no-matter-what-you-do type of fun. You throw it into a turn at…any reasonably insane speed, and moments later, you exit the corner going just as quickly, if not quicker while leaving the competition for dead. That type of feeling you’ll never get used to, nor will you tire of it. And with a lap of 1:12.390, it now has a little bit more pace to match the racing car interior and name.
Laptimes: (Tested on TGTT)
1:13.118 (before)
1:12.390 (after)
Golf GTI RM review:
Before-
‘This is the Golf GTI RM, the ultimate hot hatch. You can forget the 147, you can forget the C4 or any other hot hatch you care to mention, this will beat just about everything’. This is what I said was my first impressions of this car when I reviewed it for RKM. And even after driving just about every one of their cars and some of JG’s fastest, it still holds true. It feels like its got a stick of dynamite shoved up its 🤬 and will run rings around every FF car you could think off. Be it a 600+hp SRT4 or a Integra Type R RM, it’ll beat them all around a track. Part of that is due to the light weight, it only weighs ~900kg, part of that is due to the tires, but mostly, it is due to the gearbox. The ratios are set so closely together there are barely any gaps left in between. The downside is that the top speed is just over 130mph, the upsides though, are that when you enter, exit, or just touch the throttle, it’ll go BANG! and hit the redline with all 312hp and explode forwards. And don’t think it can’t handle bends either. The combination of those racing soft tires and the aerodynamic grip means that pinned to the road no matter how hard you fling it around. Laptime wise, it lapped the TGTT in a relatively quick 1:13.118, and if we remember, the NSX-R, on sport softs, did a 1:10.xxx. So it’s a car that feels very fast, until you look at the laptimes. And if I were to complain about anything on this, it would be the fact that the gearbox, yea it makes this car go like a *******, but it’s far too short for this track. You hit the limiter before you even get to the brake point. And…that’s about it for improvements. Still, let’s see what the tune does.
After-
‘It's an FF. It will understeer. And will continue to do so until we can change the laws of physics.’ Don’t think so mate
This will not do anything other than stick to its rightful place in the road. It’s got even more downforce and even more grip, and as a result, is (obviously) faster. Ok, it doesn’t go down the straights as quickly with the longer gears, but in the corners, it more than makes up for it by just gripping to the apex where the stock one would run wide. It also beats the stock car on the straight. Although the stock one will get the head start with the gear settings, this will just walk past as the normal one, which bangs on the limiter at 125mph, while doing 134+mph. So it’s fast, it can corner and most importantly of all, it’s fun. It’s not the lift-off-oversteer-if-you-corner-too-hard type of fun, more of the grip-to-the-end-of-the-world-no-matter-what-you-do type of fun. You throw it into a turn at…any reasonably insane speed, and moments later, you exit the corner going just as quickly, if not quicker while leaving the competition for dead. That type of feeling you’ll never get used to, nor will you tire of it. And with a lap of 1:12.390, it now has a little bit more pace to match the racing car interior and name. Laptimes: (Tested on TGTT)
1:13.118 (before)
1:12.390 (after)
