You just made me come out of hiding! For the record my VR6 will beat a stock 2G GST with 19s and all everytime! I have but 3 mods.

>the GTis are slow..

a 1.8T GTi runs sub 7 sec 0-60 times and low 15s stock. low to mid 14s with a $500 ECU upgrade (I dont know a GTi owner who doesn't have a chip and every sunday all the VW owners in the area hang out). A 1.8T Gti cost $18900. slow compared to what? its not slow compared to a stock GST or any other FWD sports coupe short of a SRT neon. A VR6 12V or 24V GTI is within a tick or two of a 1.8T GTI. It too will break into 14s with $500 worth of mods ($200 CAI and $300 ECU). Granted 150hp Gti's up to 2001 werent that fast but there were no RSXs, SVTs or SPEC Vs during those years. Its still a mid 14 sec car with $500 worth of mods

>the Jetta VR6s are slow.

A Jetta is a GTi with a trunk and 100lbs. all the above applies.

guess what. The Gti 1.8T is what the turbo DSM used to be. A cheap turbo car with potential to go fast for cheap. Its everything Mitsubishi abandoned when they made the 3G.


As for the question old A4s only had 150hp and the new ones have 170hp. Neither is a rocket or should be any problems beating. With a chip comes another 30-50hp and 80ft lbs of torque. You should still win, the car is heavy especially with AWD. An S4 would spank that ass easily and an S4 with a chip is more corvette territory than FWD street eclipse territory.