ED30 or Facelift S3

[th3_f15t]

They should have just sacked the R off and gave the option of bigger powered 4x4 Gti 

Kind of what the R division did, they took out the compromise VW put into the design to lower the overall cost of the GTI.

For the cost of it, a stage 3 GTI with 4motion is still less than a newer S3 or mk6 Golf R! (Depending on how much work you do yourself and sourcing parts at discounted prices).

[Matthewsimone]

Id also go S3 mate although a do much prefer the look of the Golf
Love my standard mk5 Gti but know if a increased the power at all id hate it as find overpowered fwd cars very annoying/frustrating
Friend of mine has a Leon Cupra running around 360bhp and im affraid it's utterly pointless 
Now that power in a S3 would be 

Best of both worlds would be a Golf R mk6-mk7 but big money then!
R32 also a great choice but not particularly fast, £500 road tax and no Booooost could be booring too although they do make a good noise :-)

S3's are not that terrible in money i think anymore you can get a decent facelift one for 14-15k with pretty good millage but the 4WD in them is just a pull to me, id love a Golf R mk6 but there are hardly any for sale and they are all bloody 5 door!

Thats what people have said that taking a FWD drive car over 300bhp is just pointless as it just cant keep traction 

Personally think much over 200bhp in a fwd car is pointless mate especially without a fancy limited slip Diff 

Others will disagree but its a simple sum of physics not rocket science 

[th3_f15t]

As long as you're sensible with the go-faster pedal, high power in a FWD is manageable. I will admit, there have been times when lapse in concentration has made me realise 250bhp through the same wheels that control the direction of the car can cause a bit of a conflict... But I'm still here to tell the tale!

[BenGTI]

Id also go S3 mate although a do much prefer the look of the Golf
Love my standard mk5 Gti but know if a increased the power at all id hate it as find overpowered fwd cars very annoying/frustrating
Friend of mine has a Leon Cupra running around 360bhp and im affraid it's utterly pointless 
Now that power in a S3 would be 

Best of both worlds would be a Golf R mk6-mk7 but big money then!
R32 also a great choice but not particularly fast, £500 road tax and no Booooost could be booring too although they do make a good noise :-)

S3's are not that terrible in money i think anymore you can get a decent facelift one for 14-15k with pretty good millage but the 4WD in them is just a pull to me, id love a Golf R mk6 but there are hardly any for sale and they are all bloody 5 door!

Thats what people have said that taking a FWD drive car over 300bhp is just pointless as it just cant keep traction 

Personally think much over 200bhp in a fwd car is pointless mate especially without a fancy limited slip Diff 

Others will disagree but its a simple sum of physics not rocket science 

I reckon i wont be disappointed with an S3, and after ive took it to stage 2 ill love it

[TForrest94]

Have you considered an ED35 instead? Bit rarer than the ED30 it seems and being a mk6 has a lot of the nicer bits that us mk5 lot seem to "borrow" for our interiors!

I haven't to be honest, i do live the ED30 but i already have a golf and a mk5 golf to a MK5 golf would just be abit boring i think.

Obviously its different for everyone but i went from a stage 1 gti to an edition 30 dsg and its a completely different machine, made me fall for the mk5 platform all over again take one for a test drive, as the fist says a 4wd coversion its that much of a bank buster if you get stuck in and source at good prices

[Jonneh]

Have you considered an ED35 instead? Bit rarer than the ED30 it seems and being a mk6 has a lot of the nicer bits that us mk5 lot seem to "borrow" for our interiors!

I haven't to be honest, i do live the ED30 but i already have a golf and a mk5 golf to a MK5 golf would just be abit boring i think.

Obviously its different for everyone but i went from a stage 1 gti to an edition 30 dsg and its a completely different machine, made me fall for the mk5 platform all over again take one for a test drive, as the fist says a 4wd coversion its that much of a bank buster if you get stuck in and source at good prices

Don't forget buying an S3 isn't that much different to an ED30 these days! I paid less for my S3 than i sold my ED30 for, admittedly my ED30 was pretty much the best spec you could buy and so good it was sold to me by a VW dealer. But i got a low mileage decent spec 3 door S3 for what people are paying for ED30s! And I don't have to put a 4WD system on it as an extra!