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Originally Posted by SC David
Funny. There's a magazine editor I work with who has a MKV GTI. We were cruising some twisty roads coming back from a shoot a few days ago and I pretty well left him behind after a few tight corners, even with the crappy stock Primacys. I'd send him a link to this video saying that it's "me and him," but he pretty well hates his car. Not really sure why, besides a couple reliability issues and the fact that he doesn't like understeering through corners. It's a damn good car for daily driving, and I'd think he'd at least appreciate that. Meh.
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IMO it really depends on the speed posts and types of corners. In the Motortrend video they are around a track and can get a GTI to rotate much easier around a wider lane and longer stretches of corners. The FR-S will lag behind for obvious reasons but on the street its a different story.
On the street and autoX, where the FR-S very unique qualities come to life are comprised of low speed sections, narrow width lanes, and tight corners. A place where a car like the GTI, might fail in terms of overall feedback for the driver. This might equate to lower performance numbers. This is a real possibility, and it might refer to your magazine editor friend on why he hates his car. GTI would not be one of the first choices in autox and gkymhana.
In this video I do give props for the GTI being a better car generally, but they omit a few things. The car was built for the driver, and in the video they never talked about the driver, only focusing on the car. To make the battlefield even, id ask motortrend to do a followup video on autox and windy roads between the two cars. The favor will shift to FRS regardless if the GTI might still come out as being a better car.