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Match 3: Mini Cooper S vs VW Golf R32
Our 3rd match up may seem oddly paired, with what appears to be a clear winner in the Golf R32, but don’t be so sure! Remember that power to weight ratio is a closer indicator of the true performance of a car than power alone, and these two are pretty close in terms of that. What the Mini lacks in power, it gains in the weight saving. This choice may be tougher than you think.
Mini Cooper S
With a wheel at each corner (literally), the Mini has always been a great handling car. There’s barely any understeer. And if you lift-off in a corner, the tail is surprisingly easy to keep in check. Any car that reacts so quickly but so predictably, and gives you so many options, and connects you so intimately to its moves, cannot fail to be a bundle oflaughs.
VW Golf R32
Our second Golf in the top 16? (don’t worry we’re not biased). Discounting the squarish designs that dominated autodom until the mid-’30s and the cubism of Borg spacecraft, no manufacturer has mined more glamour and performance from rectilinear vehicles than Volkswagen, at least not in the past couple of decades. It was VW after all, that dignified the econobox back in 1983 with the creation of the first GTI, essentially a Golf with attitude. Now comes the most outspoken version of the Golf lineage, the R32! A GTi so potent that VW refrains from calling it a GTi. So where does it fit in the small-car performance spectrum? You tell us…
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