Because you thought you were fast enough to beat a GTI, but you found out you weren't. So fact is, you're admitting to street racing, and losing.

 

GTI hands down...

 

ooooh thats right you were there so you know i was street racing. We never fn raced idiot.. just took off on him and i did leave him just not as much as i thought i would.But i slowed right down cuz i dont street race. Your gonna tell me you never done anything like that? if you say no your a liar.

 

^ relax....

 

2 much tc your absolutly right, I wonder who caused that to happen. The answers on the page 1

 

You said you dropped it into 4th while doing 80. So you were already speeding when you took off, and you sped up to pull away from someone else, who you thought was taunting you by riding your ___. Sounds like racing to me. And no, I don't do that ____, in fact, I generally chill in the right lane doing 65-70 because I don't feel like having to deal with cops checking my car, also I don't feel I need to prove how fast my car is to other people.

 

yo.. you would relax if someone dissed your car for no reason? Im done just wanted to get my point accross since people were assuming ish

 

Regardless of all of this, the fact is, is that the GTI is faster than a S/C tC.

 

gti is going to win. ive raced my buddy's gti a number of times. you need a s/c with a pulley and a good driver and you will probably break even.

 

carbon, I was just using that as an example that downshifting helps to the guy saying i didnt know how to drive. listen.. i dont have time to sit here and argue all day.. Ill just watch what i say on here cuz of people like you that make negative comments that are off topic. I should of known better when i saw you were allready in the op. I did hesitate to do it.

 

^ again... relax.

 

LOL wow this is kinda funny. Someone lock this thread, before someone gets hurt.

 

Stock Tc Supercharged 180whp, Stock Gti Turbocharged 170whp, I guess it depends on the driver huh

 

How about we stop using opinion of who would win and do some research. Car and driver, and everyone knows their times are usually worse than what a normal driver can do.

A SC tC struggles to get into the 14s. Few have psted time slips of 14.7 I am one that has, but I had 9.5 pulley and a host of other mods.

Here is what a STOCK GTI can do:

For all-out acceleration, DSG has a launch-control feature in which the engine holds at 3000 rpm and, when the brake pedal is released, takes off with a tuned amount of clutch slip and wheelspin. Using this method, we managed a 6.0-second 0-to-60-mph sprint and a 14.7-second quarter-mile at 95 mph, even though we thought the computer allowed too much wheelspin.



THE GTI WILL WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

hp numbers dont mean poop

 

Yes it does, when you put that power to the GROUND

 

NO IT DOESNT!!

So your saying a 118HP Lotus ELISE is slower than a 160HP Scion tC????? (if the tC could "put the power to the ground")



Or say a Hummer HI with 300HP is faster than a tC with 160HP?????



HP has VERY LITTLE to do with it. There is vehicle weight, gearing, transmission, power delivery and a host of other things. HP NUMBERS DONT MEAN POOP!!!

 

Horsepower does mean something. But its power to weight ratio thats important. The reason why a Lotus with less power would be faster then a TC is because its light as hell. So yes hp is important but so is weight. If we had a 2000lb Scion TC with 160hp, it would be pretty damn quick.

 

none of that matters. All I read when i come into these threads is speculation and numbers. How about GO TO THE RACE TRACK. Can my xA beat a 600whp R32 VW??????? most would say no. but i dont make a thread about it. Instead i went to and auto-x and beat the poo out of it. posted results are proof in the pudding.

 

+1 blown, thats the way to do it, go out and race and see how it compares in real life not magazine results.

I raced a GTI back when I had my stock 06 tc with the s/c and I beat it, on the track. Not saying that the GTI isn't faster, but most of the time the driver makes all the difference. The s/c tc and the GTI put down about the same power, about mid-180s. What makes the GTI faster is drivetrain.