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APR Golf R wins sub $75k performance challenge
« on: October 31, 2012, 12:43:45 pm »
Just seen this from our APR Australia.

Seems their Golf R has literally wiped the floor with the competition, including 3 other Golf R's.

http://goapr.com.au/htc12.html#/4

Why dont we have magazines doing challenges like this in the UK??

« Last Edit: October 31, 2012, 12:45:33 pm by Janner_Sy »

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Re: APR Golf R wins sub $75k performance challenge
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2012, 12:59:46 pm »


Why dont we have magazines doing challenges like this in the UK??



How many people would be interested in it though? It's pretty niche...

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Re: APR Golf R wins sub $75k performance challenge
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2012, 01:08:08 pm »
You say that, but when you consider how big the Japanese, VAG, french and ford tuning scenes are, if they were to combine cars in an "equivalent" set of groups i think there would be alot of interest

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Re: APR Golf R wins sub $75k performance challenge
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2012, 01:12:37 pm »
So how does this translate into the real world?

I don't see huge numbers of customers flocking to their nearest APR dealer and I don't see APR having much interest in anything other than big turbo specials so far.  :indifferent:

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Re: APR Golf R wins sub $75k performance challenge
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2012, 01:19:13 pm »
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Without bothering to read the whole magazine article, does APR walk away from this being $75,000 richer?

How was that prize money raised? - It's a lot of dosh.


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Re: APR Golf R wins sub $75k performance challenge
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2012, 01:29:01 pm »
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Without bothering to read the whole magazine article, does APR walk away from this being $75,000 richer?

How was that prize money raised? - It's a lot of dosh.

think you misread that, for a tuning company to enter a car into that category it had to be sub $75k including car and ALL mods.

So how does this translate into the real world?

I don't see huge numbers of customers flocking to their nearest APR dealer and I don't see APR having much interest in anything other than big turbo specials so far.  :indifferent:


Ian, i merely posted the link for those interested in reading it.  Theres alot of TFSI big turbo work going on across the forum recently, so id imagine there's a few guys on here who would read it.

Not wanting to get into the old debate, because i agree, its boring but would you have the same response if it was REVO?
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Re: APR Golf R wins sub $75k performance challenge
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2012, 01:37:09 pm »
Probably Sy as it doesn't relate to anything relevant for me.

I prefer stuff that exists in the real world for Joe Public not one offs.

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Re: APR Golf R wins sub $75k performance challenge
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2012, 01:39:22 pm »
Probably Sy as it doesn't relate to anything relevant for me.

I prefer stuff that exists in the real world for Joe Public not one offs.

I agree, i think that sort of power is pointless, Ive said the same thing to tfsi_mike many times with his car(Because we all know he will go BT eventually  :grin:)

Still like reading about it though, impressive stuff for a Golf!!

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Re: APR Golf R wins sub $75k performance challenge
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2012, 01:40:22 pm »
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Thanks for clarifying that, Sy - Yes, I had another OAP moment and misread it.  :happy2:

Even though I have no interest in fitting a bigger turbo, not even a K04, I think that threads about it are very interesting and anyway, it's easy not to read threads if not of any interest. So thanks for posting  :happy2:


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Re: APR Golf R wins sub $75k performance challenge
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2012, 01:41:05 pm »
it says that the cost was $99,280 including the car... thats not sub 75k ?

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Re: APR Golf R wins sub $75k performance challenge
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2012, 01:46:04 pm »
it says that the cost was $99,280 including the car... thats not sub 75k ?

guess its the car and mods then lol.  :ashamed:

Its not relative to our market UK market anyway, Australia pay MUCH more for their cars than we do in the UK

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Re: APR Golf R wins sub $75k performance challenge
« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2012, 01:53:02 pm »
Probably Sy as it doesn't relate to anything relevant for me.

I prefer stuff that exists in the real world for Joe Public not one offs.

I agree, i think that sort of power is pointless, Ive said the same thing to tfsi_mike many times with his car(Because we all know he will go BT eventually  :grin:)

Still like reading about it though, impressive stuff for a Golf!!

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Re: APR Golf R wins sub $75k performance challenge
« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2012, 02:11:58 pm »
Just had a skim through (so apologies if I missed something) but there is no details of each car's mods and half them seem to be missing from the list of results  :confused:
Also, it says the Golf R is 234KW (which equated to around 314bhp IIRC), yet it runs 11's?!?!?! I call BS!!! Unless of course it's just a Golf R shell?

With the sort of money that is spoken about in this test, the results are pretty lame to be honest (with exception of the Golf R). I assume the other Golf R's were manual also (judging by their 0-60 times)? As we all know how easy it is to get daft 0-60 figures from modded .:R's with DSG.
« Last Edit: October 31, 2012, 02:18:23 pm by Sunglasses Ron »

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Re: APR Golf R wins sub $75k performance challenge
« Reply #13 on: October 31, 2012, 02:30:37 pm »
Just had a skim through (so apologies if I missed something) but there is no details of each car's mods and half them seem to be missing from the list of results  :confused:
Also, it says the Golf R is 234KW (which equated to around 314bhp IIRC), yet it runs 11's?!?!?! I call BS!!! Unless of course it's just a Golf R shell?

With the sort of money that is spoken about in this test, the results are pretty lame to be honest (with exception of the Golf R). I assume the other Golf R's were manual also (judging by their 0-60 times)? As we all know how easy it is to get daft 0-60 figures from modded .:R's with DSG.


Again its says its stage 4 .. im guessing stage 4 on a golf r is around 500-600bhp ?

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Re: APR Golf R wins sub $75k performance challenge
« Reply #14 on: October 31, 2012, 02:34:16 pm »
  :happy2: