The Death of a Bunny

[APXD 30]

Just settled, verbally, with the insurance company and got a line on the first R32 in our area today.  

I could hardly wait to drive it....red....big brakes....good looks...great exhaust note....all the makings of a memorial Labor Day weekend.    I knew the bad news, DSG-only for the US going in.

To my surprise, the car did not drive like I expected at all and did not have the same acceleration of the bunny.  Zero to 60 times are the same as the stock 2.0T but it is quite heavy.  The front end plowed in the corners and the AWD system zapped power to the engine in mid-corner in an attempt to sort some computer functions out.   

All in all, I was very disappointed partly b/c I had such high expectations.   It's driving characteristics were more comparable to my past G35X than the GTI.