Ferrari F430 vs VW Golf GTI Clubsport S

Picture of VW Golf GTI Clubsport S (Mk VII)
Picture of Ferrari F430
Category Golf GTI Clubsport SFerrari F430
Engine layout 2.0 l R44.3 l V8
Max power (ps / bhp) 310 / 306490 / 483
Max torque (Nm / lb-ft) 465 / 343
Curb weight (kg / lb) 1314 / 28971505 / 3318
Power / tonne (ps / bhp) 236 / 233326 / 321
Average price €40,000€139,000

Lap Times

Track Golf GTI Clubsport SFerrari F430
Hockenheim Short 1:12.601:12.70
Nürburgring Nordschleife 7:49.217:55.00

Acceleration

Speed & distance Golf GTI Clubsport SFerrari F430
0 - 50 kph 2.3 s1.8 s
0 - 100 kph 5.6 s3.8 s
0 - 160 kph 11.6 s8.3 s
0 - 200 kph 18.6 s12.2 s
0 - 250 kph 40.6 s20.9 s
1000 m 24.7 s21.5 s
Est. 100 - 200 kph 13.0 s8.4 s
0 - 60 mph 5.8 s3.5 s
0 - 100 mph 12.8 s7.9 s
Est. 1/8 mile 9.6 s @ 89.5 mph8.3 s @ 102.5 mph
1/4 mile 13.6 s11.7 s @ 122.8 mph

General performance

Category Golf GTI Clubsport SFerrari F430
Top speed 266 kph (165 mph)316 kph (196 mph)
Est. 0 - 100 mph - 0 18.3 s @ 1549 ft11.9 s @ 830 ft
Est. max acceleration 0.55 g (5 m/s²)0.77 g (8 m/s²)
18m slalom 70.9 kph (44.1 mph)68.0 kph (42.3 mph)
Fuel economy 7.8 l/100 km (30 mpg US / 36 UK)18.4 l/100 km (13 mpg US / 15 UK)
100 kph - 0 31 m (100 ft)34 m (111 ft)
200 kph - 0 116 m (381 ft)134 m (441 ft)

Summary

Category Golf GTI Clubsport SFerrari F430
Track Performance 200196
Straight line speed 11451702
Total 13451898

Verdict

F430 is the fastest by considerable margin.

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Chanante  7y ago

Umm in my opinion the 430 can did it better. The track now is faster and the performance of tires have avanced a lot. But the performance of clubsport S is excelent.

 

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saxy  7y ago

You’d be a fool to think a FWD Golf is faster than a 480hp Ferrari of 20 years ago. Around a corner maybe, but that’s it


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dumbfucks  7y ago @saxy

These hatchback poor-as-****-morons really have been brainwashed by the marketing gang lol, whatever brand it may be. Every time when you look deeper into how these FWD shitboxes set their records you find special made compounds, geometry settings that never see the retail cars, and god knows how many other modifications for a record run. This then gets compared to supercars that none of these peasants will ever be able to afford, with times that were set in a different age when Nordschleife wasn't even known to the public at large (thus useless for marketing), and with no intention of setting records lol. Then you look up trackday / journalist times or in case of Nordschlife BTG times and none of these FWD turds actually set these laptimes in the real world.

At least these poorjoe's have something to spend all their hard earned Mcdonalds money on and tell themselves they bought a dedicated track car to go shopping and drop of the kids lmfao. Uneducated dumb****s.


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cosimo  7y ago

we never know how badly it was tuned, because they follow the footsteps of the father of all cheaters :)

550x800m


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Fastedee  7y ago

Another example of Ring Fraud.
That VW must have been making 350 bhp and pulling 1.15g.

 

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manone  7y ago

more importantly, f430 must have been driven by the legend
von saurma, which makes f430 much slower then how much faster the golf could go having the performance you mentioned.


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Fastedee  7y ago @manone

The Ferrari brakes slightly worse and pulls .97 g but the acceleration advantage is massive. Much greater than the 570s over the 1LE


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saxy  7y ago

I thought you were better than this. /smh. A factory hardcore qualifying lap record beat again by another factory lap (vw improved their record on a second attempt) is not to be compared with a casual magazine test lap.

Plus, the Golf has much stickier tires and is lighter. The Golf was not cheating on engine power at all. Advertising the same 310hp as the Civic Type R, the type R did a suspicious 268kph? While the Golf Struggled to get passed 250. If anyone was cheating with more hp, it was Honda.


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Fastedee  7y ago @saxy

I have no arguments about Honda as it beat cars at the Ring that were far faster and also better braking. No doubt a factory lap for the F430 would be faster but removing seats and using slicks or near slicks should not be Valid. A ZO6 or Viper is close enough to a McLaren or Ferrari in speed to win by barely slowing down in the corner. A Civic type R is so much slower than an early Murcielago -along with worse braking that it makes 7:50 a laugh and 7:43 a howl.