Why not just bump the GTI up to the 270HP and then offer the R20 with AWD and maybe 300HP? Keep the GTI price similar just with a more powerful engine and have the R20 to fight the WRX and Rallisport Lancer with a price under $30K.
you have to look at the big picture, they have too many models and other brands, they all have to fit in there respective places in the lineup.
the R20 WILL be AWD.... it's basically a TTS or an S3..... it's the same reason we'll never see the S3...... the R42 is the same way, it'll be a golf based TTRS, same turbo 2.5, same hp...
I agree with you. In context with the whole paragraph above it, you see my point. I'm saying IF they do decide to make the R20 FWD(which I don't think is true despite what autoblog says) then that makes the GTI pointless since a FWD R20 would basically just be a chipped GTI, with admitedly even a bit more power than that, but you get the idea. Without AWD to set it apart, what makes it different than a GTI, especially enough to warrant a different name? That's a main reason why I think the R20 will be AWD.
As far as the MK6 GTI though, I am a bit confused that they haven't bumped up the power on the 2.0T. For the Mk4's(and even the Audi 1.8T's) the power was bumped up over time. We started with the 150hp 1.8T in the GTI and then moved up to the 180hp version. Seems that for the Mk6, we'd have seen a similar increase in power I would have hoped. They did bump it to 210hp, but I hear the US isn't going to get that increase and we'll still have the 200hp version. Maybe it will still happen before they are actually released, but I'm just not seeing it so far. 200hp just really isn't competitive in the segment any longer, it was barely competitive when the Mk5's were released, but it's even less so now.
