Launched & Tested - Golf TSI

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Well I did botch the tech specs in my earlier post. I referenced the 90kw mini-uber TSI not the full blown deathstar version

Anyways...here's some specs off the VWSA site.

1.4TSI
Power : 118 Kw
Torque : 240 Nm
Weight : 1290 Kg
Weight/Power ratio : 91 Kw/T
Torque/Weight ratio : 186 Nm/T

GTI (AXX)
Power : 147 Kw
Torque : 280 Nm
Weight : 1364 Kg
Weight/Power ratio : 107 Kw/T
Torque/Weight ratio : 205 Nm/T

I also took the liberty of running a quick simulation on one of the various ET simulators the yanks like to use to get 'estimated' 1/4m times and exit speeds.

GTI does it in 14.37s @ 151.7km/h (incidently this is almost smack bang on what GTI's are known to run at tarlton)
TSI does it in 15.20s @ 143.4km/h

So the GTI crosses the line 0.83sec ahead of the TSI. Lets assume for a second the GTI stops accelerating when it crosses the line and maintains it's speed of 151.7km/h. Doing the math reveals that the GTI would be roughly 35m ahead of the TSI. Now 35m might not sound like much at 151km/h but if we consider the fact that the Golf 6 is only 4,2m long, it means the TSI is over 8 car lengths behind....Thats an ass kicking in anyones books