Six Reasons To Pick The VW Golf R Over The Subaru WRX STI - The Car Connection
The 2015 Volkswagen Golf R might very well be the most accessible, livable car to offer both all-weather traction from all-wheel drive, plus 0-60 mph acceleration in less than five seconds—especially if you limit the contenders to those with an... Perhaps most importantly, it steps up to all-wheel drive and a more aggressive suspension tune. Through our enthusiast site, Motor Authority , we’ve given you both a slip-sliding preview drive on ice from the proving grounds of northern Scandinavia, and then a tire-challenging on-track workout at Southern California’s Buttonwillow Raceway Park. And it demands a comparison, we think, with the Subaru WRX STI, which is a higher-output, 305-hp companion to Subaru’s more affordable (268-hp) WRX. It's been some months since we drove the STI, but really, any differences between the Golf R and STI aren't down to nuance. Yet it wouldn’t take very long, even just puttering along in traffic, to recognize that these are very different cars, however. Unlike the Golf R, the STI takes a more overtly track-oriented route with respect to the way it’s tuned. and in short, it wears that track flavor on its sleeves a little too much for most daily driving. The Golf R is absolutely a darling for daily driving, and it’s a point that was again underscored when we recently had the chance to. Source: www.thecarconnection.com
