TestDrive: VW GTI (Mk8)

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Leisure, Hobbies, Automotive

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The VW GTI test drive. Write to us with your Car Debates, Car Conclusions, and Topic Tuesdays at everydaydrivertv@gmail.com or everydaydriver.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Mark 8 GTI, the new GTI, which is pretty cool.
0:05.0	It came out last year.
0:07.0	We haven't had a chance to drive it yet.
0:08.0	But here is the Mark 8 GTI that just came out with the Golf R.
0:11.0	This is the latest and greatest of the definitive hot hatch.
0:14.0	And change has been made.
0:16.0	Not a lot.
0:17.0	Well, still like evolution.
0:18.0	It is the GTI.
0:19.0	It's now turned into a slow evolution because you can't do much with proportion.
0:23.0	If it's a GTI, if it's a Golf, what are you going to do?
0:26.0	What are you going to change?
0:27.0	It has to all be underneath.
0:29.0	And it is.
0:30.0	It's the same wheelbase as the Mark 7, even though the entire car is a little bit longer.
0:35.0	That's fine because that short wheelbase actually rotates really nicely.
0:39.0	We already know there's a good base recipe here.
0:42.0	Sure.
0:43.0	But whereas the prior GTI had 228 horsepower, this is now 241.
0:51.0	That's the logical thing you do.
0:53.0	You start with power, right?
0:54.0	Bump it up.
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