2015 Volkswagen Golf TSI | Driven: Car Review | The New York Times 

People love the Subaru Impreza for whole different reasons.

yeah it’s so fun to drive. zippy and peppy and being stocky and low to the ground it handles amazing. it’s great in the mountains because of handling where i used to live in wnc, but now i live at the gulf beaches in florida and it’s a perfect beach car with the hatchback and super customizable options for storage. you can seat 4 people and still carry a surfboard by placing it through the middle armrest opening! plus it fits in parking spots most cars can’t!

8 years later , how is it holding up ? If you still have it

@jack_kirby96 I sold mine to get a plug in hybrid, my goal is for all my future cars to be a hybrid or an EV. The Mk7 Golf has plusses and minuses, I'll list some below. Pros: -My car, which had the EA888 1.8T engine, made great power for a compact car. I never had issues merging onto the highway or passing trucks etc. -The interior was very well put together, with no rattles, nice squishy materials, and minimal plastics. -The hatch was very roomy. -The car kept me safe in a major accident where I was rear ended by a driver that was texting. The minuses: -My 2015 did not have a USB port, so the infotainment wasn't great. The 2016s and onward had USB ports and phone mirroring. -The fuel economy on the Mk7 Golf is okay, I think my highest was 35 MPG combined. -Being a German car, the maintenance was more expensive. Expect to pay $50 more on average for oil changes. The car in general was very reliable though. -Perhaps the worst thing about my Mk7 was the one major repair I had to make. Seven years into owning the car, I started getting a Volkswagen/Audi/Porsche specific warning light called an EPC warning, which can mean a variety of things. In my case, it was due to a waste gate that somehow got jammed open and the engine was no longer building boost. Unfortunately, with the design of the 1.8T EA888 engine (and also the 2.0T engine in the MK7 GTI and Golf R), the wastegate is integrated into the compressor and the whole turbocharger needs to be replaced. I had a high end Euro specialty car shop due the swap and it was still $2500 of a repair. A Volkswagen dealership quoted me $4000 for the repair. From 2017 the Mk7 Golf got a 1.4T engine that is much easier and cheaper to do repairs on, including wastegate swaps. Nowadays even Volkswagen uses a 1.5T Variable Geometry Turbocharged engine with even fewer parts, so blown turbos aren't an issue. All in all I was very happy with my Mk7 Golf, despite the turbo swap that had to be done at 160,000 or so miles. I would love to own another Volkswagen, but they don't have any hybrids atm.

@Bernie R. SUPER good pickup and Cleveland to New York in one tank of gas!!!!

+ray britton I have the TSI S 2 door and wheel size are 15" but my friend has the TDI and the wheels are 17".

+ray britton They are 18 inch wheels

What issues were they having?

@@22chachalaca probably wont see this but I grabbed a used one with 69k miles and driving it for 8 months I’m now at 81k. The only thing I wish was available was a LSD. But this isn’t the race car, the GTI is I suppose. People love the interior, get compliments on how zippy it is. Not a bad car by any means, throw a tune on it and you’ve got slightly more then GTI power at a couple grand cheaper. I would love a GTI or R but it was my first time financing, and for a base model I’m more then impressed.

No problems in my 11k miles so far I may add

@@MrCodgod111 I've had the car for 1 year/10k and so far waterpump and turbo have needed replacing lol.. those seem to plague every golf out there. good thing warranty took care of it and I should be good for another 5 years.

Sel

this is a 1.8, gti is a 2.0. Different turbos, different interior trims and various other appearance differences.

Originally (price wise) was nearly $10K more for the GTI

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They're more popular now after Dieselgate. With new Golf's I the UK I'd say over half are TSI's now.

A Golf R is 35k, not this.