JYR
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Actually both as it seems very few people (at least those posting on this forum) are interested in or planning on doing any sort of competition with the R, more-so hard parking at Cars and Coffee. I will be playing in HS this year and looking at future classification.Yeah, I was thinking B Street as well. The Focus RS and the current Golf R are in BS. Hopefully there will be some adjustability in the Type R's suspension to get some more negative camber up front. Even then, I think that it will be a challenge for the Type R to beat the BS-ruling Corvettes and S2000s.
As for competition in the marketplace - which is what the OP appears to have been thinking, not actual motorsports competition - there is a weird inversion in the Canadian marketplace as the Golf R 6-spd is $32k(US) vs. $41k for the same car in the USA. Thus, the Golf R will almost certainly be priced a bit lower than the Type R in Canada. However, I already have an AWD Q-ship full of typical VW electrical problems .
Also, just curious as to what others think this car will compete with in the marketplace. Is a FocusRS buyer going to look at the R? I will say that if the R doesn't live up to expectations (which I doubt it will) I think the next player for me is the RS, unless Subaru debuts a new STi in the coming months. But I feel that a car with a world class AWD system is the next step above the R, not the other way around. And that really is the basis for my thoughts on marketplace competition.
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