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- Is that R32?
Not GT-R, one of them Volkswagen things I guess.
Pretty neat.
Taco ding dong.
Looks like a taco ding dong.
Whoa, a R32 on air.
I wish I could interview this dingus.
This is pretty neat, I don't know.
Whoa, look at this tire.
- Dakota! Where have you been man?
We got Driver to Driver season two coming up right now.
I mean, I'm looking all over for you,
but what are you doing, just hanging out at Taco Bell?
What the, get in the van, man.
We gotta go, I'm starting in like half an hour.
- Season two, I guess.
- You're gonna get in the back?
I mean, whatever works man.
Whatever floats your goat, I guess.
All right, we gotta go!
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- Holy (fart effect), I'm back.
The first Volkswagen Golf was produced in 1974.
In 1974 there was a 55 mile an hour speed limit
imposed to save gas usage.
This didn't affect Golfs because they could
barely hit 55 miles an hour anyways.
The Volkswagen Golf got it's name because people
were tired of walking hole to hole
and wanted something to drive from hole to hole.
I made that up.
That's a golf cart we use.
Volkswagen actually named their car after wind,
and Golf refers to the Gulf Stream.
They should have named it after breaking wind.
(blows raspberry)
The forth generation Golf came out in 1997.
It took them until 2002 to realize they could make
the rear wheels move at the same time as the front ones,
and then they introduced the R32.
The original MSRP of the R32 was $29,000.
Now just hear me out on this.
You could get 9,119 black bean
Quesaritos from baco tell.
This is the math.
Getting 240 horsepower for 30 grand seems like a ripoff,
but people bought them anyway so, I don't know why.
Today we sit down with an owner and have a good old chat.
Driver to Driver season two.
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All right, I got a desk now.
An expensive desk.
Welcome back to Driver to Driver.
The first episode of season two.
Lucky enough today we have cousin Eddie.
Cousin Edgar. We have Edgar, he's coming in.
Cousin Eddie, cousin Edgar thing.
Careful.
How you doing?
- I'm good, how are you?
- I'm doing, a yeah.
Season two, Driver to Driver.
All right, let's not beat around the bush.
How much did you pay for that glorified GTA?
- I paid roughly around 10,500.
- 10,500? - 10,500, man.
- That's not too bad. How many miles were on it?
- A hundred and fifte.
Fifte, bruh.
- You bought that with 150,000 miles?
- No, I've put on roughly around 20,000
since my ownership.
- Okay.
- So, I bought it at around 100 and
a 100 and
30.
- 130, big math.
- Big math.
- Some math. - Some math, you know.
- Do you feel like that was a good deal?
Ten K for 130,000 mile GTA?
- At the time, yeah, it was good.
I mean, being one of the more reliable VW's out there.
(fart effect)
- Reliable.
So just to clarify though,
you spent $10,000,
but you bought the wrong R32.
Did you get catfished into thinking it was a Skyline,
or did you know you were getting the Golf, or?
- I mean, I knew I was getting the Golf.
- Okay, good.
- I knew I was getting a Golf.
- Do you like golfing?
- Love golfing.
Love golfing, boo.
- So it's R32.
Does the 32 stand for horsepower?
- No, the 32 stands for
the 3.2 VR6 that is in the-
- 32 horsepower.
- Well, more like two fifte.
- Two fifty?
- Two fifte.
- You're churching up them numbers, boy.
- Man.
- It's still NA right? You didn't boost it?
No turbos, no supercharge, no fun stuff?
- No, it's on NA.
- Just six cylinders.
- Just an NA.
- So, all right.
Out of all the all wheel drive platforms,
like STI, and EVO, and S4, and S60R,
what made you choose the slowest one?
- Um, the reason I picked up the R32 was because
I used to have a 20th Anniversary GTI,
in the Imola Yellow, just like yous,
and I've always wanted like a nice sounding vehicle.
Which, with the 3.2 VR6 and that Golf R32,
sounds mint brother.
- Just kind of sounds like Chewbacca
All right that's enough out of me.
Let's hear from our extremely cool
and loyal YouTube community.
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- All right, NickLeafs asks,
what are the downsides of owning this car?
- Downside, I would say,
what the (fart effect),
oh, sorry.
- You can say (fart effect).
(fart effect)
- Honestly, one of the downsides,
I haven't really found any.
Besides the issues I've come across,
which would be-
- Hey, we'll get into that.
Don't you say nothing about that stuff now.
We'll keep moving forward.
GOLDEN PANDA wants to know,
what's more crunchy?
A Doritos Locos Tacos or the rust on your fenders?
- Probably the rust on my fenders.
- Yeah, I agree with that.
- Yeah, rust on the fenders is a huge issue
on the mk4 platform I would say.
- Yeah.
- So, it's crusty but it's still trusty.
- Do you think you'd ever fix the rust?
- Eh.
- I think that's what most mk4 guys say.
They're just like, eh.
- I want to but, you know.
- It's just a little bit of rust.
- I mean, if I'm gonna daily it,
if it's a half daily driver,
I'll just kind of run it right now.
I'll yeet it.
- Stanley Mashaber asks,
does the interior smell like crayons?
- Yes, it does.
My last one smells like crayons,
this one smells like crayons.
Feels like I'm back in the homeland again.
- You know why that is?
You know why it smells like rust?
- Like rust?
You can smell rust?
- You know why it smells like crayons?
- Why?
- Because of the wax they put
on the undercarriage to prevent rust.
But.
- That don't work too well.
- Nope, it just smells like crayons,
it doesn't prevent rust.
- Nice hat.
- Thank you, nice.
Patrick Mozingo asks,
what's it like telling people you own an R32
and they ask if it's the GTR and then you have to say
'no it's the Volkswagen R32'?
- My soul dies inside every time.
- Are you okay?
Cause I can manage that hurting a little bit.
- I'm okay.
- You're okay? Good.
- I promise.
- Dennis Murphy's interested in the production
and asks does the check engine light
really come on from the factory?
- Um, I mean, the last two I've had, yeah.
They've been a little dickered with.
- You've had a few? A couple, two, tree?
- A couple, two, tree, friend.
- Check engine lights?
- Check engine lights, Volkswagens.
BMWs too, but let's not, let's not.
- Check engine lights and crayons.
Volkswagen.
Chris Shoemate asks,
why did my wife leave me?
- Well, buddy, you know.
You know, what kind of-
- Vithursan B is curious and asks,
why a Mk4 pile of (donkey effect)?
- Because they like to fly.
- Wait, what does that mean?
- They believe they can fly.
- Mk4's believe they can fly?
- Yeah.
- How much of that tequila did you have?
All right, that's enough out of YouTube community.
What issues have you had with your Golf Stream?
- So, couple, two, tree years ago,
I was coming back from my old lady's house.
I was going through a construction zone.
I was riding dirty low,
and, well, I cracked the pan.
- Were you still on air?
- Yes, I was.
So as I'm riding through, you know.
- So you went through a construction site aired out?
- You know, I don't want to talk, I don't.
- Why'd you think that was a good idea?
Why would you ride dirt nasty low in a construction area?
That's like the whole point of air.
You can't cinnamon twist your way out of this one, pal.
- Look, I made a mistake.
Once the indication light started flashing,
I knew something was wrong.
- Did you just have oil all over everywhere?
- Well there was a nice skid streak
as I was looking back in my rear view just.
- In your underwear or on the pavement?
- Both.
- Okay.
- Cause at some point in time,
once I saw that streak of oil,
I knew my pants were gone too.
- Hell yeah.
What other issues have you had with it?
- There was this weird intermittent issue right now
that's been going on where,
it's been shutting off on drive thrus.
I went through Wendy's last week.
As I'm just waiting there to pay,
she shuts off on me.
- So just specifically through drive thrus,
the car shuts off.
- Yeah, I think it hates Wendy's.
- Is it just Wendy's?
Or is it any drive thru?
- Went through Panera too.
I was really sad it happened at Panera but.
- Oh, big Panera.
- I think it might be some sort of a sensor,
something needs to be, get got.
- But only the drive thru.
Only drive thru.
- Only drive thru.
- That's some weird issue.
I've never heard of a Volkswagen
that only shuts off in drive thrus.
Is that a Volkswagen thing?
Is that what you Vdub guys do or what?
- No, no, I don't like hard parking in the drive thru,
especially when you're holding up a line.
- Maybe you're just aired out
and you can't move forward.
Just stuck because you're aired out.
Have you tried that, crack oil pen in the drive thru?
- Well, you know,
it only happens through construction, bruh.
- Well, word on the street is you've had
two air bags that are leaking a little bit.
- Yeah, yeah, just a wee bit.
That's fine though, it holds pressure.
Like I can still-
- This air ride just seems like a bad gig for you.
- No, no, it's fine.
I promise you.
- You're learning?
- I'm learning, dad, sorry.
- What mods you had done on that bad boy?
- So currently right now, very simple mods.
I got me a nice little short shifter, you know,
so I can bang some gears.
- You can bang the pavement.
- Got that Chewbacca,
that Chewbacca sauce.
- The short shifter don't do that.
- No, but the exhaust do.
- Oh, the exhaust do be like that sometimes.
- The pipes be do like.
- Okay.
- Sound good, sound good.
- So you got a short shifter,
exhaust, and lift obviously.
- [Eddie] I got lift. Broken lift.
- [Dakota] Rotor forms?
- [Eddie] Rotor forms, rotor form SPFs.
An 18 byte and a half plus 35.
- Wheels, tires and suspenders, fitmentindustries.com.
Ding dong.
So how long have you had this car?
- Had it for almost four years.
- Four years and you put a short shifter in it?
- Yeah, it's good.
It feels good.
- Why don't you put like a turbocharger on it?
- No, no, no, that's too expensive.
Broke boy status.
Come on.
- Broken oil pan boy status.
- That too.
- Broken drive thru status.
- Hey, nice jacket.
- Hey.
What advice would you give to someone
wanting to pick up an overpriced GTI?
- Honestly, besides those small issues
that I've had personally,
it is a good vehicle.
It's fun to drive, sounds great.
I would recommend it.
- It does sound like Chewbacca
And look out for the rust.
And look out for construction zones.
Drive thrus can get hairy.
All right, well, that about wraps it up,
but for Driver to Driver season two
I have a special parting gift.
Thank you for being on the episode.
Very own edition of NASCAR Revolution.
- Well, hell yeah, brother.
- You can play that in the drive thru when you're stuck.
Thanks cousin Edgar for letting us poke some fun at him
about his Golf Windstream thing.
Don't forget wheels, tire suspension.
Fitmentindustries.com.
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This is stale.
- Yeah.
- That's what I imagine rust tastes like.
- Whoa, don't take my finger.
That's the rust four.
- Thank you.
Thank you.
Have a good night.