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Originally Posted by DB_Cooper
I considered a Golf R in 2019. Needed a hatch and something that would be an all year car anyone in the family could use.
I walked away from the last MY Golf R feeling like the interior was really cheap, overuse of hard plastics and the dealer experience was awful at every dealership I visited. I drove two of them, both were brand new and had squeaky clutches & interior rattles. Went with a 2019 Mazda 3 hatch; best bang for your buck and a much more handsome car vs the Golf R, even better than the GR & CTR. Different leagues in terms of performance but utility for us was the same. In fact if Mazda were making a performance hatch option I'd wait on the GR purchase, that's how impressed I am w/ Mazda quality and overall purchase & ownership experience.
Back to the new Golf R, which I think is way overpriced, FUGLY, overly complicated & something I'm def not considering if a CTR or GR C are options. For what it's worth these are proper Japanese sports cars, built in Japan and that matters to some people.
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110%. Then again, I've realized I'm kind of a Mazda fanboi with how many I've had over the years. If they had brought back the Speed3 I absolutely would have bought one hands down. My '10 Speed3 was a blast.........only got rid of it because at the time I was building a track car and was planning on doing NASA TT, so I got a truck to tow it.
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Originally Posted by Donatello.
LOL several people here gave me a lot of crap because I would not drop $40K+ on a Corolla. I am referring to them. How many of these folks bought one? I bet maybe 1 tops...
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I was very interested in them when the news dropped. But I knew it would be impossible to get one without paying a huge markup and waiting a long time, which I wasn't willing to do.