Nice review. I`m in an identical 2014 GTD and it`s a great car. I`m at 128k miles and still love it after having it approx 4years. ALWAYS drive in Sport mode, if not, you may aswell be in a bog standard Golf TDi. Biggest plus points = 48-52mpg even with a bit of B road fun. The radar adaptive cruise control is brilliant! I don`t ever want a car without it now! Comfortable and well planted around corners with the great Mk7 chassis and setup. All in all a great daily driver.
sounds great, I am eyeing a 2014 one now as well, but I'd love some caravanning without the bad mpgs of a bigger car, would you recommend a GTD for that? 85% weight match ofc.
@@IsyMU4lyf my 2014 manual gtd is on 133k miles, i've put 100k of those on it. Im keeping it and as far as i feel, keeping it serviced and not thrashing it it should do plenty more miles. My last mk5 golf gt tdi did 342k miles and had 10months left on the mot when i sold it. Look after them and imo golfs are superb long life cars.
I ran one of these for 3 years and covered 90k miles in that time. Was just a good all rounder. Yes diesel is never quite as exciting as the equivalent petrol but plenty of mid range and overtaking punch when you need it. Very easy to live with but fun enough when you need it.
Get an ECU remap / Stage 1 tune it makes sucha difference that i wouldn't drive one w/o it. Especially since the torque drop off which is quite significant is completely nullified
A great review Bex. Well pointed out that there does seem to be a little lag on the blown diesels also that all the power and torque comes in a wallop that is very narrow compared to the petrol options. I've also been weary of electronics looking after the hand brake like you. I had no choice with my current car as it was all electronic but like you I don't really trust it implicitly, I hold my foot on the brake anyway just to be sure. Like keyless entry where you don't have to press the key fob the electronic handbrake seems links a solution to a problem that does not really exist. Apologies for the ramble. Keep up the great work!
I was in the grey GTD at Blyton park in May with my girlfriend and little boy, you were in the lotus Mine was far from standard it took alot of development to get it track ready chassis and engine wise but yes it was a weapon and I’m usually in 400+ hp Subarus and Evos . Its the longest I kept a daily just sold mine after 4 years and miss it already,that car upset many fast cars on the rd and track total sleeper. We will maybe see you next season I will be in my jdm evo x manual I’m in the process of building ready for track well done on the channel keep it up !
Lovely to chat to you again! It was flying! Definitely a big difference between road performance and track in any car! Will keep a look out for you next season!!
Map the car to stage one and all of the problems drop away had mine for 4 years now and I'm riding it until the nuts fall off after the map its shocked quiet a few cars that I've decided to see if it was a fast as. Really good and fair review ✊🏾
@@charliebraysonmy map has opened the torque band from 2k to 3k now to 1,5k to 3.5k so your working less on revs to go fast so the engines working less so no it doesn't really effect the mpg... If anything it's better. But because the cars faster I tend to drive fast by default so my mpg is worse 😂 double edged sword.
Hey niece Becca, there is a new GTD, that makes 197bhp and 400Nm of torque. The 0-100kmh time is 7.1 seconds (which will earn it a 1/10 on the Doug score acceleration scale). Also, a manual is no longer available.
I had a diesel Mercedes SLK for a bit and it surprised me how good it was. It was about as fast as the GTD but it had a really loud gurgly engine which is usually a negative for a diesel but it made it sound huge 😂
