fengpo wrote:The 1.2 tsi in my Audi is the engine I have thoroughly enjoyed in all the cars I have had. For it's size it's a menace, changing gear is also a pleasure. Practice gear changing with rev matching, it makes gear changing a fun game. I don't do automatics I had an auto Pug not for me.
I do try rev-matching, and it's almost a subconscious thing now, which can only be good.
But every 3 days or so, I wistfully look at DSG Yetis on Autotrader with the 1.2 petrol and just wonder how nice it'd be to have 2 Yetis. One manual for when I'm going to enjoy the drive, and one DSG for a daily use car.
I've encountered the 1.2 TSI in a '10 VW Touran I passengered in while I was in Wales and it really was a phenomenal engine. It made me laugh as it showed absolutely no sign of being strained, despite the driver being one of those chaps who has never heard of gentle acceleration, and basically drove everywhere as if he was in the BTCC. Although, I never once felt unsafe, or annoyed, as a passenger. But yeah, all those hills and a surprisingly reserved lunatic behind the wheel, and it still managed a very acceptable 35ish mpg.
It did make me wonder how much better the consumption would be if the driver had some semblance of being 'economical'.
I'll be 18 next Thursday, and I am sorely tempted to just sneak off to a Skoda dealership and blag a 1.2 Yeti for a test drive...