added Google Analytics

http://www.google.com/analytics/
similar to extreme tracking (the icon on the RHS of the menu page)

Another toy to measure if anyone from the www actually visits here......

17800miles GTI Edition 30 MPG update / snow

some recent snow in the North West!
and yet another tank of Tesco 99 in the GTI Edition 30 for a mpg check

Racing Line 300R and Greatest Golf GTI ever articles now online

added 2 new pdf's for Golf related fun to sidebar ---> , check them out.

(Right click over link and Save As)

RacelineGTI300R [.pdf]

Racing Line MkV 300R Volkswagen Driver mag 2009

GreatestGolfGTI AutoExpress2009[.pdf]

Pullout article on GTI from Mk1 to Mk6 

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Santa Pod RWYB 1st Feb 2009 : 2nd mk5golfgti forum meet

A very cold Sunday (1 deg C ! but felt much lower with wind chill) , travelled down to Santa Pod with a group of other GTI owners from mk5golfgti.co.uk for the first RWYB day of the year.

A great day , but it snowed! 

Did quite a few runs but alas did badly.

Best was slip below, a 15.09 sec 1/4 mile!  (that was with ESP ON ! I was slower with ESP OFF)

Best manual of the day got a 14.3 , however DSG cars were in the 13's with jonnyc's monster running a 12.9 @ 118mph! (LSD+R888 tyres+DSG)

At least I made it home with my clutch still intact (for now)
At the very least I would expect a 14.5 :-(

Golf GTI Edition 30 vs R32 MPG figures manual vs DSG

Posted on a forum by TT,some useful data for MPG
for Golf MkV GTI Edition 30 vs R32

clearly rollocks as Ive averaged around 28 MPG ish from day 1!

	Ed30 (man)	R32 (man)
Urban:	24.8	18.8
Extra-urban:	44.1	33.6
Combined:	34.0	26.2
	Ed30 (DSG)	R32 (DSG)
Urban:	26.2	21.4
Extra-urban:	44.8	36.2
Combined:	5.3	28.8

Edition 30 plaque here at last !

Yep, after many months of pressure on VW by Edition 30 owners they have now retrospectively created and sent out numbered plaques based on chassis number.
Mine is 1369 , of which 2400 was the official limit but VW produced over 3500 !!
pic to follow ......