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Si salesman mad!

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Pulled up beside a Honda salesman with a customer on a test drive yesterday. I guess the salesman thought his Si was faster than the GTI. He had the customer rev'in the engine and was waving at us like they were going to leave me sitting there. It reminded of the idiot in the hopped up civic in the new gti test drive with the female german engineer. From redlight to redlight I smoked the Si all three times. The salesman was so mad he put his hand out the window and shot me the bird. ;D ;D ;D
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I'm looking at getting an '03 Si to use as a commuter when my company car lease is up on the Ford Taurus. How was your Si on gas mileage?
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Just remember the Si has a limited slip Differential, so it might be able to get a jump on you at the start.
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matrim22 said:
HoldDaMayo said:
Just remember the Si has a limited slip Differential, so it might be able to get a jump on you at the start.
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It shouldn't. Definitely haven't seen that from those I've gone up against. The Si has basically no torque at all, and what little it does have comes way too late. You should destroy it, especially with your DSG and launch control.
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you can't even use all the torque you have in first gear... you don't need a ton a torque during launch, a limited slip diff will help get more power to the ground efficiently, a car with as much torque as ours should definitely have a limited slip... i think it's the only downside about my GTI, but damn i love my GTI.

Yesterday, i turned off traction control for the first time... 1st gear was insane, driving at 5mph then flooring it and the wheels just light up... shifting from 1st to 2nd was a wheel spinning extravaganza. Then of couse, i turned the traction control back on because tires aren't cheap and i don't need to be abusing my poor fast like that ;)
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