cossieDavedree

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VqbsWzKJMo&feature=fvst

there you have it then , the focus rs just in a different league to the superior scirocco

lmao.

What a SHIT Review.

timrud

Have you driven any of the new VW's???

Totally agree with the review.

cossie4i+

iTrader: (15)

What was up with them lights keep flashing on the vw ?

Read the review in the mag.

Steve

MIXXR3I

exactly m8! video proves absolutely nothing for me!
i reckon the majority would go for the focus rs before the vw.

cossieDavedree

I havent driven either and neither do I intend to.
Both the new rs and vws offerings do nothing for me what so ever.

i'M OLD SKOOL rear wheel drive/ 80'S retro fwd ,
( i own a mk2 scirocco storm so im not ford biased either)

I just think that an opinion based video stating driver preference isn't indicative of the cars potential performance.,
there should be acceleration tests, drags race, braking distance challenge.
lap times etc.

If the scirocco is a better car then fair play to it .

Rick Astley

Well we are all entitled to our own opinions. Obviously he has driven both so can make his choice. I'd suggest very few of us have actually driven both if any of those cars, so who are we to judge?

cossieDavedree

which is why some figures need to be provided,

1/4 mile time,
0-60
0-100
best lap time
average mpg
best at braking, (not breaking !)

Then each cars potential performance will be measured and quoted and nothing will be opinion based bar the fact of what feels nicer to drive etc etc.

timrud

If that is all you look at when spending 26k+ on a car then you should buy a kit car!

MalteseFalcon

despite everything that will be said I think that after a few years The focus rs will still be top notch hot hatch and the WV will be just another car!!!! But as I am a Ford Fan!!!!

timrud

Yes, agree that in a few years the FRS will still have a blindly fanatical following.

But that is no reason to buy one over that VW now.

Ryan

personally i prefer the vw.

think its much nicer looking car.

and as has been said in the video, looks like a much more classier, expensive car than the ford.

then again i've never really like the new focus rs at all.

timrud

Glad its not only me thinking that!!

People need to remove Ford blinkers sometimes!!

NEIL A

iTrader: (6)

If i had to buy one it would be the vw,think it looks a more solid and a bit classier car unlike the RS that looks like a chaved up ST.

RS-ads1986

never liked VW'S meself sorry but take away the R badge on the V DUB and it just looks like a golf GT!!! bring on the focus aggressive looks and always looks a bastard in your mirror cant see why anyone would say that about the GT oh sorry the R

mrjenrst

Exactly, its the presence of the thing. Far more people are blinkered to vw's then ford's

Ryan

the presence, lol

anyone can make a presence with grills and spoilers

ste1806

i have been in both and driven the focus rs the bro inlaw owns the focus and a friend works for vw so gets test cars etc. my opinion is the focus is the best drivers car faster to , but the scirroco r edges it with the interior quality, feels just like the audi s3 well from passenger seat anyway, he wouldn't let me drive it.

Chip

iTrader: (3)

The biggest issue I have with his decision, is that its cause the Scirroco is cheaper, but if he were to actaully try owning both for say a 3 year period, as is typical of a new car buyer it would be the Focus that would be cheaper.
Mainly due to the difference in depreciation.

Its all very well saving a couple of K to buy it, but if its 5K cheaper after 3 years then you are down not up, and thats before you look at different servicing costs etc.

If you are going to take cost into account, at least do so meaninfully IMHO

Rsmat

iTrader: (2)

i have test drove the VW R and the focus rs and the evo 10 fq300 and i choose the focus but that was down to my own opinion.

ste1806

if you spec one up on vw's website to the same spec he tests in the video it is actually more expensive not cheaper like he suggests the leather, wheels and the gearbox are all extra

Chip

iTrader: (3)

LOL

Even more of a stupid point for him to be making then.


Bottom line is, that he called the VW a better car for one reason IMHO, he was trying to be controversial cause he wants people to talk about his review

mrjenrst

Thats called chaving it up if its not standard, standard is where its at and fuck me what a presence of the frs. Or do you like the look of cars crashing into the halfrauds chav section?
O

Chip

iTrader: (3)

Yeah you need to be sat right up in the air to be in control, those pricks in F1 with their low seating position all have it wrong

Ryan

thats exactly what the focus looks likes it done to me.

everything looks cheap and stuck on.