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“On roads as good as this, the GT handles well too. But that’s it, I’m afraid, so far as good news is concerned. The rest of it is rubbish.”
“The handle that you pull to move the passenger seat fell off, and then there was the truly woeful engine.”
“I like the power delivery of an engine to be smooth, like a ball bearing rolling down a child’s playground slide. In the GT it’s delivered with the smoothness of someone in a wheelchair falling down some stairs. “
“And where’s the power? If you’re going to stick GT badges on a car and claim it delivers 168bhp, then kindly give us some oomph to match. Time and again I had to change down on hills, and once, with my foot welded to the floor, I was overtaken by a Mercedes van. “
“The worst thing, though, is that the GT TSI fails to do any of the things that you might reasonably expect from a car. It doesn’t make the journey fun. It doesn’t isolate you from the sensation of travel. And it isn’t especially cheap. By the time I arrived in Falmouth I was fairly ready to push it into the sea.”
“The following day, after a seven-hour drive back to London, up the M5 and along the M4, I decided that it was one of the five worst cars I’d ever driven.”
“The Golf made it much, much worse.”
“Verdict: One of the five worst cars ever made”
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12529-2505907_1,00.html
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“The handle that you pull to move the passenger seat fell off, and then there was the truly woeful engine.”
“I like the power delivery of an engine to be smooth, like a ball bearing rolling down a child’s playground slide. In the GT it’s delivered with the smoothness of someone in a wheelchair falling down some stairs. “
“And where’s the power? If you’re going to stick GT badges on a car and claim it delivers 168bhp, then kindly give us some oomph to match. Time and again I had to change down on hills, and once, with my foot welded to the floor, I was overtaken by a Mercedes van. “
“The worst thing, though, is that the GT TSI fails to do any of the things that you might reasonably expect from a car. It doesn’t make the journey fun. It doesn’t isolate you from the sensation of travel. And it isn’t especially cheap. By the time I arrived in Falmouth I was fairly ready to push it into the sea.”
“The following day, after a seven-hour drive back to London, up the M5 and along the M4, I decided that it was one of the five worst cars I’d ever driven.”
“The Golf made it much, much worse.”
“Verdict: One of the five worst cars ever made”
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12529-2505907_1,00.html
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