Mathilda Racing Beetle 2.0 TSI Tuning

In Mathilda Racing Beetle 2.0 TSI brings together two worlds that actually could not be more distant - harmless Floral Decor and tangible motorsport know-how.

It always has its appeal, to properly pack performance in honest shell. Everyone knows, who has ever indulged in a golf-hp monster crankshaft la HGP or Rothe Motorsport in life. Mathilda Racing now proves that you can pack the longitudinal dynamic perversion of a compact base even unsuspecting. Body / quality Only the front in factory R-Design-optics dissociates the sheet from the series look. The remaining procedures are owed ​​all the driving dynamics. An adaptive coilover KW lowers the building by 65 millimeters, 19-inch monitor Rial dress the wheel arches full frame, while behind a borrowed from the VW Scirocco R brake system doing its job.

Less visible, but clearly felt: the barrier of Drexler. Driving pleasure / drive Mathilda wraps the 380-hp kit of HGP with a modified turbocharger, transmitting freudigerer intake duct, large intercooler, stronger fuel pump and 76mm downpipe to the four-cylinder. The resulting 550 Nm processed an amplified DSG gearbox, the exhaust fountain a 76-mm-complete system. Much effort, but it also causes a lot. Instead of trotting as the series organ bloodless over the speed range, roars, snarls and pushes the tuned TSI now turbo in the best manner. The thrust infuses every sense, a respect, the response is sleepy, exactly or violently depending on speed.

Good thing the front lock white thanks to digest and full load. The Mega-performance Beetle not only almost 100 percent more power, but also the non-existent on the standard car for Launch Control along with torque limiter in the lower gears into the field. Result: With halfway dose slip of the retro-bump has a fantastic in 5.3 seconds to 100 km / h (series: 7.1 s) to its base with 16.5 to 200 (standard: 31.0 s) and real 276 km / h (series 227 km / h) top speed pull down the pants entirely. Amazing: elasticity, even in sixth gear still fails significantly better despite the larger supercharger. Is anchored to just under 34 meters.

Chassis / comfort If there are still doubts about his performance, the Mathilda Beetle dispels this in curvy latest. Turn-in and grip levels are excellent, almost too neutral handling a trace. Restless it is only in the hardest of the three Dämpfermodi, the taut rumbles extremely over bumps and the structure at high speeds like to cancel out. Exemplary: the rest comfort in the "soft" set-up. Price / cost airline doping is not; but you will have to search long to find a production car for 55,000 euros, which can keep up with this Beetle.