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[00:00] When you tune a Volkswagen, when you boost a German car, they get angry.
[00:30] My name is Chris Rinjamer and my dad is a cop. I call every girl I know a C and I use aim bots in every PVP FPS that I play. My dad works overtime every night so I leave the door
[00:46] to my room open while I practice my butterfly knife. While my mom stays in the kitchen and prays through a guardian angel. My name is Chris Rinjamer. I got straight B's on my report car so my dad helped me buy this Golf R. It's his name but it's technically mine because I paid
[01:04] for the APR stage 2 tune with my own money that I made by selling Chinese vapes behind the propane tanks at sheets. I can't wait to sand all the paint off the driver's side core panel
[01:16] pour Sam's choice soda on it so it rusts that way I get street cred with all the other PA the Volkswagen Golf R story has about four twists and turns in it and we're going to go over each
[01:31] one and I'm going to make fun of this goofy car at the same time I'm telling you to enter this giveaway to win this 2013 Volkswagen Golf R with a 6-speed manual and an APR stage 2 plus tune within
[01:45] take exhaust airp coils and topped off with the Sparko wheels. I understand the dichotomy that's going on right here before we get into that get in at fan of them dot com slash regular cars
[01:57] grab some limited edition merch and you're automatically entered to win this well I don't know how much power the APR tune adds over the stock 292 horsepower because I don't know anybody who has an all-wheel drive dyno will let me use it for free open road
[02:13] that is awesome there is no there is no sound I apologize I'm not wearing a laugh mic I want you to
[02:25] hear this exhaust there is no type corner there is no me finishing this sentence because the cars are good awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome the thing
[02:38] about when you boost the Volkswagen AG products like this there is no turbo peak it just goes up and over and down again but this is not a normal Golf R this is the APR stage 2 plus tune and it takes
[02:58] to go far to go levels oh my goodness it's like recently we did like a 2GR
[03:11] swapped into an MR2 and I was amazed how fast that thing rev with a little bit of tuning this is like that those 1 to 2 to 3 gears are over immediately that was me going to redline every single time
[03:25] any day now the whole world right now is moving in slow motion I just want to go
[03:38] traction control good all-wheel drive man it's going to be worse Brian, worse or an automotive journalist put it in the 6th gear and think for a minute
[03:50] I think 350 crank I mean it's pulling like a focus RS and that's 350 horsepower and 350 foot pounds of torque it feels the same so it makes sense to my feet and but once again click the link
[04:04] in the description go to fan of them dot com slash regular cars grab some limited edition merch and you're automatically entered to win this tuned Golf R I'm having fun driving it but I have to dig
[04:16] into the goofiness of this vehicle because the story of the modern Golf R begins with the actor Peter Stromair and Volkswagen's remarkable advertising in February of 2006 Volkswagen released a trio of
[04:31] television ads starring veteran actor Peter Stromair you remember him as the bad guy who put Steve Busemi in the woodchipper at the end of Fargo Peter Stromair who brilliantly portrayed Lucifer
[04:47] opposite Keanu Reeves in the movie Constantine and stole the spotlight for that entire movie it's the greatest scene of movie it's maybe the greatest portrayal of the devil anybody has ever done
[04:59] Peter Stromair who played the lead German nihilist in the big Lebowski you know they believe in nothing Lebowski I can't do an accent opposite Jeff Bridges Peter Stromair who played one of the
[05:12] Russian gangsters in John Wick again opposite Keanu Reeves hey Pete we know you're an actor who dissolves into a role more than Tom Hardy and you're probably really busy but you want to do some
[05:27] commercials for Volkswagen and you think he's saying no but Pete is so grounded he said not only am I taking this gig but I'm gonna treat it like a Cohen Brothers film and what resulted was one of the
[05:40] best car commercials ever made Stromair opposite actor Sonya Verstendique openly mocked the very customers Volkswagen wanted to attract because this was the mid 2000s tuner culture had reached its
[05:58] loudest most neonist most accessorized you know maximum subwooferness period being a car enthusiast in the second bush junior administration meant strapping the most amount of BS onto your
[06:15] compact car getting the loudest blowoff valve you could buy usually HKS and acting like an ass hat from Tacoma to Key West now most manufacturers just went along with trends Ford had leaned into
[06:31] tuner culture with their SVT division Dodge did the same thing with the 250 horsepower SRT 4 neon Honda had their size Toyota even got into it with their XRS matrix and the Corolla XRS and Subaru was
[06:44] always present with the North American debut of the WRX in 2004 so the market was saturated with fast loud cars and an after market culture to support them and of course fast and furious films was
[06:59] at their peak then as well so you'd think that Volkswagen who by the way invented the hot hatch with the Gen 1 Golf GTI would follow trends but they did the opposite the GTI and the Golf R's
[07:14] became restrained in the 2000s sure they still made power but the styling became conservative cleaner no wings no hood scoops no splitters or appearance packages for this Golf R just one little badge
[07:34] up front and that's it and there's another example on the inside the Golf R which has the biggest turbo of all the golfs doesn't even have a bootcage and to drive all this point home Volkswagen created
[07:48] those three ads where an eccentric German scientist destroys customer cars first with a shipping crate then with a wrecking ball and finally with a trebuchet and when the customer cars are destroyed
[08:02] a clean white Golf GTI is revealed Peter Stromer comically flashes the dub with his fingers gangster style all with a stereotypical German accent which is reminiscent of the one he created
[08:16] for the nihilist character in the Big Lebowski and the commercials worked they worked they were funny memorable shareable that's another thing the Stromer ads were viral in the infancy of social media
[08:28] and Volkswagen couldn't keep GTI's and Golf R's on the dealer lots see Volkswagen was just saying what everybody was thinking in 2006 oh you know what you're right I am tired of having to drive a
[08:42] teenage clown car if I want something fast and small thank you Volkswagen for offering something that looks mature but is still fast now most people were happy with the Golf GTI but for people who
[08:55] wanted something serious Volkswagen made the following changes for the Golf R before we get into this real quick the Mark 6 Golf R had a lot to prove because this was the first year that any Golf with
[09:08] an R trim didn't come with the Coltish R32 V6 engine yeah that 3.2 liter VR6 were both banks of the V shared the same cylinder head but in the 6th generation the Golf R had a turbo 4 just like the GTI
[09:28] and dubbers were like oh this is bullshit I won't be special anymore what am I paying for a Golf R4 if it has the same engine as the GTI yeah my name is Sebastian but everybody calls me C-Bass
[09:43] and I have a Harley Davidson A3 Sportster and I keep renewing my motorcycle pyramid because I don't know how to do a figure 8 box my name is Sebastian but everybody calls me C-Bass the Golf R engine is
[09:56] different than the GTI in the following ways the Golf R has longer duration cam loads on the variable exhaust cams the Golf R eliminated the air pump on the cylinder head the cylinder head on the Golf R
[10:09] is 3 pounds lighter than the GTI head the R's engine block while identical to the GTI is made in Germany not Mexico the R's pistons are dished wider and deeper lowering the compression from
[10:24] 9.6 to 1 to 9.3 to 1 to make room for higher boost pressure from the larger turbo there is one misconception that dubbers will argue about they think because the connecting rods are forged the
[10:37] pistons are forged as well they're not the pistons are cast their high quality pressure cast but not forged and that same goes for the GTI the only Volkswagen Golf that didn't use forged
[10:52] connecting rods was the 1.18 now those are cast same goes with the crank all are cast sorry tuners but speaking of tuners now to talk about tuner culture which emerged out of the anti-tuner image
[11:06] Volkswagen was going for remember the tagline pre-tuned by German engineers this next bit is for my fellow Pennsylvanians you know what i'm talking about when i say PA dubbers but those of you
[11:20] outside the northeastern states will need an explanation a PA dubber is a Volkswagen owner from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania who after tuning their jet a Golf Passat maybe their mini truck
[11:33] rabbit will intentionally make their car look dirty haggard damaged and loud fall for street cred a PA dubber will grind off paint from a quarter panel to encourage rust they will drill holes
[11:49] in mufflers to make the car sound broken or straight pipe it completely they will intentionally dent or scrape their car to make it look abused mismatch wheels are common and so is running one
[12:01] USDM headlight and one e-code you'll find external oil coolers both real and fake and i'm sure you've seen X's over headlights made out of electrical tape to give the impression that the driver is going
[12:14] to or coming back from a racetrack where the rules say you have to tape your headlights in the event of a crash to keep them in one piece so there's less debris to pick up shift boots are swapped for crown royal bags sometimes floor mats and carpets are torn out and replaced with diamond plate
[12:30] steel or better yet road signs all to make their perfectly functioning Volkswagen look like it rolled out of the junkyard and i think the reason PA dubber style took off in the 20 teens is because of
[12:43] the stromare ads and the clean minimalist styling of the mark five and six golfs if the tuning scene for Volkswagen wasn't going to follow established trends it had to go somewhere new if traditional
[12:56] tuning style favored bright colors polish lighting accessories and clean engine base then the Volkswagen scene would go in the opposite direction in a display of objective defiance and that style
[13:08] is visible here in this golf r although by a smaller degree there is no intentional rusting or missing floor mats but the APR tune does make this golf r sound dirty it growls and hisses the engine bay
[13:22] is not pristine and okay what is this gold leaf heat shield tell me you play keynote on ironically without telling me do you remember these keys the the switchblade keys that Volkswagen started doing
[13:39] round the 2000s i remember when these things came out and some of my friends got golfs or jettis from back then this is what they did all the time i was in i was still in college at the time in
[13:56] grad school and then there were some students some grad some undergrad is what they did all the time with this thing i mean who knew Volkswagen was making fidget toys before fidget toys
[14:13] i apologize for having noise canceling on right now but i have the air conditioning on full blast because my outside temperature gauge is showing 91 degrees but Volkswagen knows what they're doing
[14:26] with air conditioning i've only been in the car two minutes and it's already blowing ice cold in here also by the way Volkswagen American cars are known for having very good heated seats
[14:38] but Volkswagen AG back then these these c-heaters are nuclear hot there's three settings to them you better pick setting number one before you do anything tell me that's not hot enough for you
[14:53] setting number two setting number two is like oh wow i'm boiling my balls and then third setting is just this is just torture when you're inside a mark six golf you really understand what the
[15:07] company was going for with this whole cut above making fun of tuner culture because everything inside here is clean and simple and also for those of you who don't want a lot of tech in your cars this is
[15:20] before the era of multi-function display integration i have a CD player here and then i have an SD card reader right here so you can get an SD card just rip all the tunes you want put it on that and you're
[15:36] good for the rest of your life you know no commercials no streaming no anything the only car this the only feature this car lacks which may it would have been helpful would be a rear camera there is no
[15:50] rear camera assist this is a tight corner there's no rear camera assist because this is from an age before that was federally mandated in the u.s so they did have a rear cameras dear where there's one
[16:04] this five there's a young one too you could have a rear camera if you asked for it this car doesn't have one and i find it odd that this is a golf r the most amount of money you could possibly pay for a
[16:18] golf in 2013 and they didn't give you a rear camera but then again it wasn't fun federally mandated back then folks wagon always wanted to make the shifting of these cars very smooth with precise entry
[16:38] and exits through the gears they're not really the bolt action shifting that you get in a Honda and certainly not a Honda S2000 which i adore this is a shifter in which you sort of ignore
[16:58] the act of changing gears i mean you can you can shift fast in the furious aggressively if you want to also very tall gearing as well you're going to find that in traffic such as we are here like a
[17:13] back road you are not going to be using six in fact it doesn't even really want fifth at once fourth with fifth and sixths and and these it's it's still and i apologize for going making some stereotypical
[17:27] observations that you make about higher end German cars so your upper gears are very very tall i believe this thing hits fuel cut at the EU mandated 155 miles an hour i've heard and you can double check
[17:41] me on this i heard that a golfar if you de-restricted will hit a buck 80 now that's that's i don't know if you're floating valves at that point i mean i certainly could see maybe 165 maybe 170 so maybe some
[17:58] of this is just the whole PA double-ore trying to ascribe mythical status to the sixth generation golfar i also do like it that the flat part of the dash up here is perfectly aligned for a phone mount
[18:13] and the phone can sit right in front of the air conditioning duct because you're going to be using your phone for navigation and you can have air conditioning blowing on the back of your phone so your phone doesn't overheat the sixth generation golfar also has hill control or hill assist that's you know where
[18:30] it holds the transmission or it holds the brakes just a little bit so the car doesn't roll back there isn't a setting to turn that off some people don't like hill assist some people find it
[18:45] intrusive and to be honest i was let i was that way with my Subaru Forester now that one was a fully mechanical hill assist with a second brake with a second cable that just pulled on the brake
[18:58] brake master cylinder so i just disconnected that cable and since it wasn't really connected to the computer it didn't throw any codes and i see the traction control button there i noticed when i hit the traction control to turn it off nothing happens you got to press and hold traction control
[19:15] asr is deactivated now i don't believe that i think in a golfar it says it's deactivated but still will kick in in emergencies and i don't think with an apr stage 2 plus tune that traction control
[19:30] isn't even over i think it's it's it's ingrained in the ecu you you can turn it off but it's never really off but then again this isn't a Ford Focus RS you aren't really meant to drift these things
[19:44] you are meant to track these things thank you for watching this video go to fan of them.com slash regular cars by some limited edition merch and you're automatically entered to win this move very
[19:59] fast very tuned Volkswagen Golf R the more astute among you may remember that this was the first engine that Volkswagen could into mass production that had direct injected you know fuel injected
[20:17] only and these engines had issues with carbon fouling on the valves that's not the case with this one the this has been all been blasted by psi tuning of landstale pennsylvania they did a wonderful job
[20:33] this engine's running like new you're good for another hundred thousand miles i'm merely saying this one because it's a very nice shop and two there are people who will comment
[20:47] that's the first thing they're going to ask how many miles are on this there's a hundred and seven thousand miles in the next question of Volkswagen people will always ask with the Golf R is when was the valves done and the answer was today anyway click the link on the description go to fan of them
[21:05] dot com by some limited edition anyway click the link on the description go to fan of them dot com slash regular cars by some limited edition merch and you're automatically entered to win this glorious Golf thank you so much we'll see you next week