Grab third and that is when the tyres hook up and the Laura lifts its skirt, finds proper traction and runs. Snap into second, a bit of wheelspin, and it is already at the redline again. The 1.8-litre motor is as sweet as I remember it, but this one gets to its redline waaaay faster. To get the best times out of it, I need to hold the clutch just below the biting point, hold revs at around 3,500rpm and get off the clutch while fuelling a thin line between bogging down and wheel-spinning away precious milliseconds.
Pete’s says it has more than 300hp and to get it to that figure (up from the stock car’s 182.5hp), it needs a Stage 3 remap and a turbo upgrade.
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It has a manual gearbox and that means you actually have to work to get the best times out of it. You need a bit more skill to get the best out of the Laura vRS. Seriously, there is no thinking involved to drive this car fast. The launch control and standard XDS limited slip differential will sort out traction issues and slingshot you down the road with absolutely no drama. There is no lag, no need to perfectly time clutch-and-wrist action – the DSG will sort out lightning quick, perfectly executed gear changes every time. There is no sweat involved in getting a quick 0-100kph time out of the car either. You slip into the superb bucket seats, snap on the seatbelts, slide the gear lever into ‘D’, and it is warp speed, Scotty. The driving experience of the Gen III is similarly uncomplicated. The older vRSes here need serious hardware upgrades to get to similar numbers. It means these new engines are strong enough to take the beating without needing internal reinforcement. Gen III gets Launch Control, makes it the easiest one to get consistent times out of.Ī little later, Peter Chacko tells me that all the Gen III vRS needs to get the 2.0-litre engine to do a number switcheroo (233hp to 324hp) is a Stage 2 remap, which is quite astonishing. In here, rather than sweating bullets, I’m chatting with Shibin as I unwittingly rack up a few more fines. In this Generation III vRS, which Pete says is putting out more than 324hp, big speed is natural – the car gets there without me having to concentrate hard. You would be fighting an armful of torque steer and enter into a wrestling match with the steering wheel every time the turbo lit up. Now, a decade ago, if you sent so much power to the front axle, you would need to pay attention. There is no storm or a Marty McFly in a DeLorean approaching – we are the storm. It makes it run deceptively fast on small throttle inputs. Shit! That’s what surplus power does – it makes the car run smooth and easy. He tells me that we are a bit over the speed limit and those flashes are the speed cameras going off. I assume the occasional flashes of light in the sky are the signs of an approaching storm, but Shibin, my passenger, disagrees. 5 am on a four-lane highway leading out of Kochi.
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