Man what world are we living in!?! £41k for a jacked up Golf! Reversing Camera and keyless entry are optional!! ...And that isn't even the fast R spec!!! 🤯
Kia Sportage (5th gen) for that price includes 360 cameras / keyless and much more comfortable and modern interior (especially with GT-Line spec) and in total it will be cheaper than T-Roc
Matt is right about the DSG7 gearbox. I have the same on my Yeti and it's the car's only major flaw. The 1.5 second lag is borderline dangerous until you learn to make allowances. VW must be aware of this flaw but they have never rectified it.
I had 2 cars with dsg7. In normal mode, they can be caught sleeping very frequently. On my 2.0tfsi Arteon, I found Eco mode downright dangerous in urban environments when waiting my turn for roundabouts etc. it can also be jerky at low speeds in traffic and similar. I changed to Audi with a ZF8 transmission and I fell in love, much smoother than the DSG.
A torque converter probably uses a teaspoonful of extra fuel and half a fart of extra CO2, so they went with the DSG, even though it's inferior to a good torque converter gearbox.@@Sha-Ayo
My wife has one,2018 , R-line white with black roof and 1.5 TSI 150bhp 6 speed manual. It has a little over 150k km on the clock and so far no problems, it was a very good car. It cost me ~25-26k € when I got it brand new in 2017/2018.
@@gentle285 They were cheaper but mine doesn't have so many extra options added...it came R-line without anything extra, even the white paint was standard.
My unpopular comment is incoming! I bought a T-Roc Sport in Ireland in 2019 and I absolutely love it. It was about €33k which is about £28k. It came with a technology pack which included a panoramic roof, winter pack, reversing camera, updated infotainment, etc. It's a fantastic car, haven't had any trouble out of it yet. My favourite feature is the auto-hold and adaptive cruise control. I wish it had a heated windscreen which my previous 2010 Ford Fiesta Titanium had. My T-Roc has the older screen embedded into the dash and the proper controls. I'll definitely not switch it any time soon.
@@purwantiallan5089 yeah! They are a lot more expensive now! I think I did well when I bought it. (Also got a 0% interest at the time). So no plans to switch.
I hired a 2.0 ltr AWD version for one week on holiday, D/Normal mode is unresponsive, I found myself switching between modes often and basically keeping it on sport mode on the motorways. It's a decent car, definitely worth considering it. Height and Size is spot on.
Nope. Got same issue with my golf DSG 1.5 turbo. Solution is not to floor it. Avoid hitting the kickdown switch. Use about half throttle and it accelerates quickly and smoothly. Forget and use full throttle and it panics, wheel spins and makes a lot of noise.
@@paultasker7788 I have not noticed that it behaves any different when you try to accelerate slowly or smoothly. Same second or two delay when you want to get going from a stand still. It responds fine if you are already rolling.
@CoreMaster111 could that be the electric handbrake release time? That isn't that quick and the stop start makes things slower still. Always disable that at busy junctions. And also you can restart the engine simply by turning the wheel slightly without needing to move. Although I have a carista obd2 Bluetooth reader and I've changed a couple of settings. One for handbrake release and one for accelerator response (time or position sensitive, I've put it to position sensitive).
I've got this engine DSG combination in a golf 7.5 and what you don't do is floor it. That works in my other car. A cooper S but not here. From a standstill you will wheel spin. Overtaking you'll have a kickdown that revs the car to 5000 rpm and gives you a lot of noise with what sounds like a slipping clutch for the first second before you make fairly decent progress. What you do instead is press your foot down about half way, shifts down to about 3000rpm and pulls strongly and quietly. You won't wheel spin from a start. Trouble is your instinct if one needs power says floor it and that doesnt work! If ive just driven the mini especially. Im tempted to do what lots do and tape over the kickdown switch which just seems awfully calibrated. But even worse was the audi 2.0tdi i had as a hire car with the same box. That shifted down to 4000rpm in kickdown leaving me pretty much no power whatsoever until it shifted up. You're right in that the configuration is wrong because the sweet spot of the 1.5t is about 2500 to 4500rpm. Any higher and you get more noise without performance. Over 5000 it runs out of puff. Economy wise you're looking at about 35 in town and 50 on a long trip, 42 overall. Once the engine is run in. I can't imagine the TROC being much worse. I have read that some have remapped the gearbox with very good results.
I drive the T-roc’s close cousin, the Taigo. Mine is the base model Life and it has all the old equipment listed in the old T-roc with buttons on the wheel and a manual climate control. The Load Cover fits under the false floor and is a very capable car and great for the regular tip runs I do. The car also messes with your eyes as from a front end view it looks wide, when in reality it is as wide as a polo (its sister model). It is quite underrated for what it is to be fair, having all the older equipment while being quite a new model. It’s a great intermediate. Edit: From my 10,000 miles I’ve driven it the average MPG I get out of it on motorway drives and duel carriageways is 50 mpg. That’s quite good for a 1L petrol manual.
My Amarok 4cyl diesel was picking the wrong gear when I floored it at some speeds so I edited the gearbox mapping to prevent shifting into a low gear where the engine be revving over 3800rpm because the engines max rpm is only 4500rpm. also changed 1st gear max rpm to 3000 and 2nd to 3800rpm and the rest 4300rpm that greatly improved its 0-100kmh time
I’m looking at T-cross 1.5l petrol & an audi Q3 1.2/1.4l petrol after uni, currently driving a Fiesta. Anyone give their opinion on them? in terms of practicality of maintenance & performance
I'm surprised this got a better verdict than the Puma 3 years ago. Maybe you could do a comparison? And maybe bring a Mokka and a Mazda CX as well? Cheers! 🧡
Legally they can't. They'd be responsible for the ensuing narcolepsy outbreak from making the most boring video possible. Crossovers are utterly pointless, you'd have to be a complete mug to buy one. They're literally worse than any other body style and have no benefits.
I have to note that despite not being a luxury interior and having a rather hefty price tag, the interior is built very robustly. The driving is not too bad and it is a good car to live with. I was impressed at vw not worsening their build quality.
Some time ago the vw-fans made fun of the hard plasic in a duster. Today they woe-jack knowing the half-priced duster has a better interior quality than their overpriced trock.
Absolutely stupid prices £40k+ and it does exactly what a 20k or 10k car does! Get you from A to B with somewhere to put your coffee and 99% of these will be bought on PCP which on average the APR is around 13% so add your interest on it😮 wake up public😱
I have this car i bought it for only 30k Euros with 150hp and 2.0L engine i bought this in 2019 and it turned out to be really good, i drove it in long roadtrips a couple of times it has nearly 60K KM in it and its still solid, its also economic
Had one from 2018 to 2023 😊. Great car and I changed it to EV in 2023. In Denmark, we are like sheeps, when government say "we are going to EV" you change 🤷♂️. VW didn't have any "cool" EV, therefore we choose BMW iX1. But, I was really, really happy with T-roc, so every time I see it on the road I get nostalgic ❤
The gearbox issues he describes is exactly how my US version 2019 VW Jetta drives ALL THE TIME! The acceleration lag, gearbox dead spots, peeling out and over-revving at intersections without warning. I would never buy another new VW because of the way they drive now.
Your comments about the automatic gear box is bang on. I have an Audi A4 Auto and does the same thing and it is shockingly bad. Put your foot down you have a tonne of noice and lot of revs but no go…..
I had the 1.5 in a manual A3, the hesitation was there when new but seemed to go after a bit of mileage, it's as if the engine was so finely tuned it wasn't happy with a new, tight engine. Fuel consumption and power improved with mileage as well!
The front face of this car looks much better than any Golf! Golf has grown and got more expensive from year to year, when in reality - This new T-Roc is what Golf was back in the days - Peoples car with a good price. While Golf is getting more and more expensive :/
Drove the 1.0tsi FWD as a manual on holiday in the Canaries. Absolute hoot to drive on road and dirt tracks coming from an F10 M5. Frugal, nippy, robust and easy. Would buy the 1.5 here (or the Arona) if in the market. Just needs to be £5k cheaper as Sportage/Tucson pips it.
If I weren’t getting my dad old company lease V60 this November…… I now live in a place where this type of car is what I would Even though I am REALLY not a fan of SUVs in most cases for most people
Delay in the accelerator pedal is really frustrating. I hate it. Really dangerous on roundabouts where you don't have a lot of time to get going and car doesn't do anything for a second or two after pressing the accelerator. Same problem with alot of other VW, Audi group cars. Those touch sensitive buttons are a real pain. Sliders for changing temperature and fan speed don't work good enough. And don't work at all with gloves in the winter. Touch senstive buttons on the steering wheel almost caused me to crash. Accidentally touched cruise control button with my thumb and ended accelerating to 120 km/h in a tiny parking lot. Great experience early in the morning. Those auto wipers are incredibly dumb and unreliable. Sometimes they refuse to work. Then they go crazy beacuse a leaf fell on the windshield. Or it decides to swipe none stop when you have it on the slowest interval etc. Auto start-stop with auto transmission is another half arsed feature. Low quality interior materials are pretty equal to my very cheap Škoda Rapid that was like what, 10k - 12k pounds brand new. 28k? Feck oof!
I’ll have you know I have a GLA45 - nobody knows what it is. It may not be pretty, but it’s got everything you need to have fun and still go to the tip 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@PhilbyFavourites You do you of course but I’ll just stick with a hatchback or an SUV and not try to squash the two together in some hideous and rather pointless Frankenstein machine lol.
@@Phil_3491 German junk is inferior to Japanese and even Korean cars. Germans give the lowest warranty aswell feel sorry for people paying thousands for unreliable German crap
Yep I agree with matt, MY07 Subaru is a dual manual (10 forwards and 2 reverse) I can preselect the right gear (or intermediate gear) as required ahead of the difficulty ahead!!!
That dead spot is really a dangerous and unconfortable issue with many VW cars powered by the TSI engines, from the Polo to Taigo and, as showed here, the T-Roc.
It's not thogh. More headroom, easier entry/exit, bigger boot, ground clearance means it won't bottom out over bad kerbs or potholes, can even do light offroading. Handling is almost identical to the Golf. The T-Roc is the new Golf.
I have the same issue with accelerating out from roundabouts or junctions in my Taigo. Same engine and same systems. Even in sports mode there's a delay
Unpopular opinion but I would like more reviews for budget cards like WV (I.E. we are still missing the Taigo review) than all those exotic super cars that most of us will never have.
It was the best selling petrol car in Italy until the Jeep Avenger came out (petrol version, not the EV crap they made you drive). It’s 200 kilos lighter and it’s cheaper. There’s also an hybrid version. I’d like to watch you test them but I guess they’re not on sale in the UK.
It's basically a golf which can survive potholes and speed bumps. Question: The BMW camera car, how did it last for the whole shoot without the engine blowing up or gearbox falling apart?
There is no golf plus/sportsman unless u want a huge fcking touran u buy the last option which is T-Roc! I sold my sportsvan and bought a T-Roc got a nice alcantara interior upgrade for everthying and it looks good feels good. By the way I also got r5 diesel in it with a 80l tank and it works perfectly fine just did a 3300km trip from Germany to Türkiye and it’s lovely.
Please do the similar types of videos like when u did the video of different audies at the same price, new audi at 30k and other Audi at same price but second hand
Mat, You obviously didn't drive an old torque converter 5-speed for a long time :D. That kickdown reaction time is ultra fast for me, who daily drove an old TC auto not that long time ago :D
Best not to confuse the map with the territory. A work of art where you see Jungian archetypes may just be a different map which builds upon previous maps. Ultimately they are maps of the territory, not maps of maps. Focus more on the territory please.
Me nan and grandad got one of these - old persons dream car! Looks nice, sits up slightly higher (easier to get in and out off) and comes with all the mod cons 😎
When you come at a dodgy intersection and there is a truck coming you need acceleration to do what? To put yourself in front of the incoming truck? For what? To test the truck braking?
