Top Gear Golf TDI

[Cunha287]

My girlfriend loves her Golf

[cody5002005]

im getting my right ear checked tm

[TimpBizkit]

Once a really good efficient CVT is developed, diesels will rock the racing world

[dunti21]

@TimpBizkit wow, racing with a CVT = fall asleep at the wheel...

[TimpBizkit]

@dunti21 why is a CVT slow? Beyond about 30mph you can accelerate the the car at maximum revs and no shift times. It doesn't have to be like the Prius transmission where it limits you to 4000rpm, (although in a diesel that's where the power is)! Unless you mean boring as in you like changing gears by hand instead of just using accelerator and brake

[dunti21]

@TimpBizkit Yea I know that. I did mean it's boring. In a car with DSG you also get full acceleration due to lightning quick gear changes... I would prefer that even though u don't press a clutch.

[TimpBizkit]

@dunti21 I have a question about flappy paddle gear boxes. Do they block you from selecting too low a gear, say you're revving up 3rd and you bump the left shifter, does it go into 2nd and scream at you or stay in 3rd until you're going slow enough (to below 60 or whatever 2nd gear limit is?)

[dunti21]

@TimpBizkit Yes, they will protect you from blowing your engine by over-revving. Also, if you stay in a gear for too long, too high in the red line it will automatically shift up so as not to damage the engine. This I am sure of in VW, but is also extremely likely in all other manufacturers

[towlie911]

this is fifth gear retard

[mikkelchap]

diesel pwns

[Agentsteve93]

@ringwormts115 Torque is the amount of energy the engine puts out, horsepower is how fast it does it.

hows that for simple?

[eduardosantacruz]

they should make the tdi awd so that all the torque will actually move the car instead of spinning tires.

[janssen70]

Tiff used to be a former top gear host

[RooftopViolinist]

@ringwormts115 ill give it a shot, horsepower how strong the motor is and torque is how hard the wheels will turn, as it is applied in the automobile industry actually though, Horsepower is linear force while torque is rotary. Its just that, with the transmission, axles, and the tons of steps that the explosive force inside a cylinder of a motor has to go through before actually becoming the rotation force on the wheels, it has come out as a different figure depending on how the motor etc i

[ringwormts115]

could someone please tell me in the simplest of english what torque in a car is ?

[TGnumber2]

@ringwormts115 Think of torque as how hard the car accelerates, while horsepower is how long the car can keep accelerating. In the TDI, and diesels in general, you get a lot of torque (due to the way the cylinders/pistons are built-- look up "compression ignition") but low horsepower. What this means is that you can accelerate harder than a normal car, but for not as long (because the engine can't rev as high-- again due to the size of the cylinders/pistons and compression ratio).

[kenjoje]

@TGnumber2 it isj't the rightest explanation. in comparative engines the difference is in how fast the revs grow in petrol and diesel. for the time that diesels get to about 2000, the petrol will do about 4000

[kenjoje]

@kenjoje which explains same 0-100 results

[saltapocinhas123]

@ringwormts115

HP= torque x RPM

[dachild1313]

This is fifth.

[kfr19]

@dachild1313 No. Tiff used to be a presenter for Top Gear from the late 80's until the early 2000's before he moved to Fifth Gear.

[denisbuldog]

is this fitfh gear?

[fladfishey]

Great left speaker sound.............

[davenowood]

@fladfishey i got right only haha

[12valvepower1]

us rallyists are different than racers

[12valvepower1]

mud diesel. what more could you want. mmmmmmmmm

[mdamside]

wtf! this is fifth gear not top gear idiot!

[fentonjd]

@mdamside

This is Old top gear... hence the top gear intro at the start.

[mosquiton001]

as I will always say.. on the streets torque wins on HP... period...

[12valvepower1]

@mosquiton001 wrx has great hp no torque

[rock3tcat]

@mosquiton001

Torque is a characteristic of HP, do you even know what you're talking about?...

[mosquiton001]

@rock3tcat yes as another user wrote, "Think of torque as how hard the car accelerates, while horsepower is how long the car can keep accelerating""

wich means that a car producing more low end /mid range torque will be faster on the streets compared to a car that has a lot of high end HP but low torque...

on a track instead it's usually the opposite..

[12valvepower1]

is this the 2 valve vw

[12valvepower1]

yeah boys. this is the future. diesel

[12valvepower1]

1300 dollar tax credit for vw tdi

[heledraku]

lol, those bastards, of course, when you are able to have consumption slightly above 1 gallon for 100km ( ca 62 miles)

[gringopirate]

TDi... 1 love

[nikicarulez]

this is not top gear its fifth gear

[TheVtieg6]

nikicarulez

This is not fifth gear its old top gear.

[12valvepower1]

diesel diesel diesel diesel diesel RUDOLF

[12valvepower1]

i like our powerstroke truck. put a lsd rear end in her. and i would take her in the dirt.

its huge.

[12valvepower1]

barack obama needs one of these. so do i

[12valvepower1]

can you do anti lag in a diesel

[12valvepower1]

EMP proof

[12valvepower1]

rallying is life. the rest is details.

[12valvepower1]

diesel power damn it. thats right. diesel power damn it.

[tpvalley]

this program is fifth gear!!

[12valvepower1]

rallying. vw, and diesel fuel with rocka nd roll.

do you need anything els.e

[tpvalley]

u can get over 300bhp out of these engines with the vw kit, the touring car diesels have about 300bhp.

[peadarorourke]

fifth gear is shit! its just a top gear knock off!

[zdene]

fuck diesel

[DannyEJW]

this is FIFTH GEAR...not TOP GEAR

[TheVtieg6]

DannyEJW

It says Top Gear at the start so how could it be Fifth Gear?

[15615145616513]

Tiff used to host Top Gear then it died then when they brought it back they swiched to jermey,james, richard

[BioChoppers]

Awesome, maybe after Bonneville this could be the future of the sipster ?? ;)