The VW Golf R is a bit boring let's start with that and get it out of the way we drove the standard one 300 HP and 380 Nm it's a good car it's a nice car as a daily driver it's quite fast in all circumstances with 4Motion but, when it comes to the experience it's just a bit boring it's a fast, sort of incognito hothatch if you have a Golf R and you want to do something about that there are a lot of tuners who can help but we have been invited by RaceChip to drive their Golf R and it's kind of a beast that's nice already but we have some trickery I have a little remote here with on, off and auto it's off now let's switch it on and let the party begin that sounds really good and that's something we're not used to in a Golf R let's get my phone out and open the RaceChip app and this is connected via bluetooth with the little box in the front let's switch it on it's in efficiency mode now which means slightly more power and better fuel economy and we can switch to Sport and Race Sport means a bit more power and Race is maximum power so 373 HP let's put it in Race I have to say this looks really good it's very sleak with nice menus you can see the car's profile with standard power and the new power normally, with these chiptuners you get a remote and it's one button and no lights so you never really know which mode is active I'm not a fan of those so this is a big improvement so we have 373 HP and 500Nm now especially that 500 Nm is notable that's the shove you get in the back as standard, it has 380 Nm so that's 120 Nm more! we have an Autobahn somewhere here it really picks up nicely the sound is really nice it's a very full bodied sound and it does everything the standard Golf R doesn't and it really pulls that chip is adjusted to this car so you get a really nice power delivery RaceChip has built this Press car and they have given it character the Golf R is such a distant, digital playstation car and this has sort of an analog feel to it you hear the turbo really well you get that rumble from the EDEL 1 exhaust and that adds up to a really fun car so does this manual gearbox we almost always drive a DSG one with this manual, driving is a lot more fun if you want to Chip your car visit the RaceChip website they show the performance increase the link is in the description the thing is..
with that app they make it more transparent more personal you can see what's happening you can also switch the chip off so if you get used to it you can switch it off drive for a while switch it on and you can feel what happened to your car and it's not the classic chiptuning where they take your car someone fiddles around with a laptop and you get it back and it should be faster So, all in all, this particular case really is a great car.