VW Golf TDI: Tuned by Janspeed

What can you expect from a tuned VW Golf GTI? A "torque-bunny", at least if named by Autoblog.

British tuners Janspeed have come up with a £1,395 "Sprint" package that takes the stock VW Golf TDI and turns it into quite a sprightly performer. Janspeed reprograms the engine with some help from Superchips to increase horsepower to 185 (an increase of 45) and bump torque from 245 lb/ft up to 290 lb/ft. The best part of it all is that the maximum torque is available at a paltry 2,185 rpm. Excellent.

This sounds like a fun car to drive, and the numbers would seem to bear that out, with 60 mph arriving in a completely respectable 7.9 seconds. It doesn't end there, as the cost of entry also gets you new front and rear anti-roll bars and a set of 30mm lowering springs. Through it all, the car still averages over 40mpg (Imperial gallons).

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Source: Autoblog

VW Golf TDI: Tuned by Janspeed

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