**A Dramatic Display of Automotive Skill: A Review of the Drag Racing Experience**

As we gathered to witness the ultimate test of driving prowess, it was clear that this would be an event not to be missed. The stage was set for a battle royale among three formidable contenders: a BMW, a Skoda, and a Golf GTD. With the starting line at 50 miles per hour and each car in "comfort mode" with auto transmission engaged, we prepared ourselves for what promised to be an exhilarating ride.

The first challenge saw the cars take off from a standing start, racing down the quarter mile track. The BMW, known for its impressive acceleration, quickly took the lead but soon found itself struggling to maintain its position as the Skoda and Golf GTD closed in. In the end, it was the Skoda that emerged victorious, completing the quarter mile in 15.4 seconds, while the BMW trailed behind at 16.1 seconds.

**A Thrilling Rolling Race: A Tale of Skill and Fortitude**

As we transitioned to a rolling race from 50 miles per hour, each car was now in "sports mode" with locked-in third gear. This meant that our drivers would have to dig deep and find the perfect balance between speed and control. The Golf GTD took an early lead but found itself neck and neck with the Skoda as they hurtled down the track.

In a stunning display of driving prowess, the Skoda's driver expertly navigated the treacherous terrain, edging out their opponents by mere inches. As for the BMW, its driver opted to "bottle it" at one point, effectively handing over the win to the Skoda. When asked about this decision, the BMW driver couldn't help but express their frustration, stating that they had "rocked a bit more in my chair" than the Skoda's driver.

**A Break Test: Speed and Braking**

As we moved on to our final challenge, a test of speed from 70 miles per hour with an emergency stop at the line, all three cars were ready to put their skills to the test. With full transmission engaged, each car accelerated down the track, building up momentum before slamming on the brakes.

In the end, it was the Golf GTD that emerged victorious, completing the distance in the shortest amount of time possible. However, as our drivers took a moment to catch their breath, they were reminded that one crucial factor would determine the ultimate winner: average mpg. With the Skoda lagging behind at 17.8 miles per gallon and the BMW struggling at 15.5 miles per gallon, it was clear that economy was key.

**A Post-Race Analysis**

As we reflected on the events of the day, it became clear that the Golf GTD had proven itself to be a formidable opponent in the world of diesel drag racing. Despite its impressive acceleration and braking abilities, the car's fuel efficiency had proven to be its downfall in previous challenges. However, with the winning average mpg of 19.3 miles per gallon, it was clear that this car had found a perfect balance between speed and economy.

In contrast, the Skoda and BMW struggled to find their footing, with the Skoda ultimately emerging victorious in the rolling race but at a cost – its fuel efficiency. The BMW's poor performance was a harsh lesson in the importance of proper transmission management, while the Skoda's victory would go down in history as one of the most thrilling moments of the day.

**A Word from the Driver: A Humble Victory**

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi everyone matt watson here from car wow and i've got a very economical drag race for you today because i've got a bunch of diesel hot hatches i am sitting in a golf gtd next to me is a skoda octavia vrs estate and next to that is a bmw 120d we're going to find out which is the quickest over the sunny quarter mile now let me tell you about this golf it has a 2 liter turbocharged diesel engine with 200 horsepower 400 newton meters of torque it's front-wheel drive and it's got seven speed dual clutch automatic gearbox with launch control in terms of the way it's 1465 kilos and if you want to buy one of these it's just under 33 000 pounds that's the list price of course you can save money through car way in fact if you want to save money through carlo click on the pop-out banner up there to check out the latest deals through carway.co.uk alternatively just after this video simply google help me carl my team and i'll help you choose the right car for you and get it for a fair price from one of our trusted dealers anyway let's move on to the octavio vrs so it has the same engine as this two-liter turbocharged diesel 200 horsepower 400 newton meters of torque front-wheel drive yeah again same speed dual clutch automatic gearbox with launch control bit heavier though because it's the estate and it's a larger car 1528 kilos pricing it's a little bit cheaper so just over 32 000 pounds finally then the bmw it also has a 2 liter 4 cylinder turbocharged diesel engine though this time with 190 horsepower but it does have the same 400 newton meters of torque as these are the two cars it's also front wheel drive and it's got an automatic gearbox so it's a normal torque converter auto without launch control in terms of weight it's mid-table kilos and if you want to buy one of these it's just over 32 000 pounds let's go with this drag race but before we do please make sure you subscribe to this channel and hit the bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss a single one of these uploads let's do it buying a new car then head to car wow and my team will help you find your next car at a fair price car wow your one stop car buying comparison site now as ever before we drug race let's do a sound check on these cars so i'm going to rev up the gtd that's interesting there's no soft limiter in the normal petrol gti there's a soft limit around 4000 rpm but you can rev this to the red line though to be fair that's only 5000 rpm sounds all right here on the inside but i know it's playing engine noise to the speakers you have to tell me what it's like on the outside in the comments have a listen to that skoda yeah if this sounds like that does on the outside it's a bit okay time for the bmw anyway there's one last element we're going to do before we get on with this drug race i'm just going to reset the trip computer because i want to see where the economy is over the course of this drag race so guys can you reset your trip computer so we can compare economy after all the challenges yep all set bmw yeah all done right we can now finally race all traction issues oh we're away i'm weaving about oh hello oh this is good i'm winning something that bmw's doing really badly well i was quite pleased with that i definitely responded better to the start than you two guys a bit whilst because it's damp but then not too bad how about you skoda yeah i think you got a slightly better start than me and yeah plenty of wheel spin but not bad at all it was keeping pace with you though bmw i don't know is this really slow or did it bog down would you like to do it again bmw yes please three two one all wheel spinach oh that bmw's off come on gtd come on diesel drag race for the win here comes the skoda now can he get past that bmw i'm ahead victory times two about that time bmw yeah that was much much better got a good launch seemed to run out of puff after first gear compared to you two skoda did you have him did i have him of course i had him actually smashed it might have had him in the eighth smile sorry but it is true couldn't keep up with you though all right so then what exactly happened well the volkswagen would completing the standing quarter mile in 15.1 seconds the skoda took 15.4 seconds but the bmw's poor start meant it came last completing the standing quarter mile in 16.1 seconds okay now we're getting a rolling race from 50 miles an hour cars in comfort mode and auto for the gearboxes let's do this i'll count it in get level come on oh it's like driving at the m1 this isn't it had diesels here we go three two one go kick down that bmw kicked down the best oh it's a close one come on gtd bye-bye can that's going to come past should i break now i probably should break now i'm going to break hard now the bmw picked up really nicely at first but then i came past you but the question is did the skoda come past the bmw before you had to break i did but for a moment there i thought i was gonna have to have a big old slice of humble pie it was getting properly close there but yeah i just had him at the end all right next challenge same thing again rolling race from 50 miles an hour this time they're in sports mode and locked in third gear which is probably going to be quite uncomfortable in these diesels like i'm near the red line now at 15th third anyway three two one go come on gtd i don't even have to change up it does it automatically this is close it's between me and you skoda you you're edging ahead come on can i come pass before i bottle it who's gonna boil it first oh i'm out of here do you know what you were ahead then i came a little bit past because i rocked a bit more in my chair then you rot more and i think you're coming past and it was pretty much neck and neck but i'm gonna give the win to you skoda simply because your bollocks were bigger than mine and you held on i bailed that is the most exciting driving anyone's ever done in a diesel skoda ever fax bmw how are you over there you having a good day i positioned myself perfectly to watch that race happen that's all that happened there so it went according to planning right that's exactly what i wanted to happen it was perfect okay now we're gonna have a break test from 70 miles an hour when we reach the line full emergency stop which car will stop in the shortest distance here we go here's the line my gosh that is close but definitely a win for the golf gtd overall the golf gtd wins oh oh wait actually we forgotten the last thing what is your average mpg i'm gonna call mine first 19.3 miles per gallon even though we've been hooting around what's your skoda 17.8 miles per gallon and bmv i'm getting pretty sick of this how can i have the worst mpg and lose everything i've got 15.5 what an absolute whitewash for the golf it totally won everything well apart from that one rolling race where i gave to the skoda because i was being charitable that's my fault because i just bottled out this car has performed really really well and where really matters for a performance diesel car in the economy now i've actually found an amazing deal on one of these cars through car wire if you want to see what that deal is do not whatever you do don't do this don't click on that pop-up banner up there don't do it right you don't like what you see if you go there anyway if you haven't done so already make sure you subscribe to this channel and hit the bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss a single upload hope you enjoyed the video if you did and you'd like to see some more drag races just click on those boxes there if you click on that box there you can go to car why to check out the car wow drag race leaderboard where we list the times of all the cars with drag race so you can see how these three match up compared to all the other cars thanks for watchinghi everyone matt watson here from car wow and i've got a very economical drag race for you today because i've got a bunch of diesel hot hatches i am sitting in a golf gtd next to me is a skoda octavia vrs estate and next to that is a bmw 120d we're going to find out which is the quickest over the sunny quarter mile now let me tell you about this golf it has a 2 liter turbocharged diesel engine with 200 horsepower 400 newton meters of torque it's front-wheel drive and it's got seven speed dual clutch automatic gearbox with launch control in terms of the way it's 1465 kilos and if you want to buy one of these it's just under 33 000 pounds that's the list price of course you can save money through car way in fact if you want to save money through carlo click on the pop-out banner up there to check out the latest deals through carway.co.uk alternatively just after this video simply google help me carl my team and i'll help you choose the right car for you and get it for a fair price from one of our trusted dealers anyway let's move on to the octavio vrs so it has the same engine as this two-liter turbocharged diesel 200 horsepower 400 newton meters of torque front-wheel drive yeah again same speed dual clutch automatic gearbox with launch control bit heavier though because it's the estate and it's a larger car 1528 kilos pricing it's a little bit cheaper so just over 32 000 pounds finally then the bmw it also has a 2 liter 4 cylinder turbocharged diesel engine though this time with 190 horsepower but it does have the same 400 newton meters of torque as these are the two cars it's also front wheel drive and it's got an automatic gearbox so it's a normal torque converter auto without launch control in terms of weight it's mid-table kilos and if you want to buy one of these it's just over 32 000 pounds let's go with this drag race but before we do please make sure you subscribe to this channel and hit the bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss a single one of these uploads let's do it buying a new car then head to car wow and my team will help you find your next car at a fair price car wow your one stop car buying comparison site now as ever before we drug race let's do a sound check on these cars so i'm going to rev up the gtd that's interesting there's no soft limiter in the normal petrol gti there's a soft limit around 4000 rpm but you can rev this to the red line though to be fair that's only 5000 rpm sounds all right here on the inside but i know it's playing engine noise to the speakers you have to tell me what it's like on the outside in the comments have a listen to that skoda yeah if this sounds like that does on the outside it's a bit okay time for the bmw anyway there's one last element we're going to do before we get on with this drug race i'm just going to reset the trip computer because i want to see where the economy is over the course of this drag race so guys can you reset your trip computer so we can compare economy after all the challenges yep all set bmw yeah all done right we can now finally race all traction issues oh we're away i'm weaving about oh hello oh this is good i'm winning something that bmw's doing really badly well i was quite pleased with that i definitely responded better to the start than you two guys a bit whilst because it's damp but then not too bad how about you skoda yeah i think you got a slightly better start than me and yeah plenty of wheel spin but not bad at all it was keeping pace with you though bmw i don't know is this really slow or did it bog down would you like to do it again bmw yes please three two one all wheel spinach oh that bmw's off come on gtd come on diesel drag race for the win here comes the skoda now can he get past that bmw i'm ahead victory times two about that time bmw yeah that was much much better got a good launch seemed to run out of puff after first gear compared to you two skoda did you have him did i have him of course i had him actually smashed it might have had him in the eighth smile sorry but it is true couldn't keep up with you though all right so then what exactly happened well the volkswagen would completing the standing quarter mile in 15.1 seconds the skoda took 15.4 seconds but the bmw's poor start meant it came last completing the standing quarter mile in 16.1 seconds okay now we're getting a rolling race from 50 miles an hour cars in comfort mode and auto for the gearboxes let's do this i'll count it in get level come on oh it's like driving at the m1 this isn't it had diesels here we go three two one go kick down that bmw kicked down the best oh it's a close one come on gtd bye-bye can that's going to come past should i break now i probably should break now i'm going to break hard now the bmw picked up really nicely at first but then i came past you but the question is did the skoda come past the bmw before you had to break i did but for a moment there i thought i was gonna have to have a big old slice of humble pie it was getting properly close there but yeah i just had him at the end all right next challenge same thing again rolling race from 50 miles an hour this time they're in sports mode and locked in third gear which is probably going to be quite uncomfortable in these diesels like i'm near the red line now at 15th third anyway three two one go come on gtd i don't even have to change up it does it automatically this is close it's between me and you skoda you you're edging ahead come on can i come pass before i bottle it who's gonna boil it first oh i'm out of here do you know what you were ahead then i came a little bit past because i rocked a bit more in my chair then you rot more and i think you're coming past and it was pretty much neck and neck but i'm gonna give the win to you skoda simply because your bollocks were bigger than mine and you held on i bailed that is the most exciting driving anyone's ever done in a diesel skoda ever fax bmw how are you over there you having a good day i positioned myself perfectly to watch that race happen that's all that happened there so it went according to planning right that's exactly what i wanted to happen it was perfect okay now we're gonna have a break test from 70 miles an hour when we reach the line full emergency stop which car will stop in the shortest distance here we go here's the line my gosh that is close but definitely a win for the golf gtd overall the golf gtd wins oh oh wait actually we forgotten the last thing what is your average mpg i'm gonna call mine first 19.3 miles per gallon even though we've been hooting around what's your skoda 17.8 miles per gallon and bmv i'm getting pretty sick of this how can i have the worst mpg and lose everything i've got 15.5 what an absolute whitewash for the golf it totally won everything well apart from that one rolling race where i gave to the skoda because i was being charitable that's my fault because i just bottled out this car has performed really really well and where really matters for a performance diesel car in the economy now i've actually found an amazing deal on one of these cars through car wire if you want to see what that deal is do not whatever you do don't do this don't click on that pop-up banner up there don't do it right you don't like what you see if you go there anyway if you haven't done so already make sure you subscribe to this channel and hit the bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss a single upload hope you enjoyed the video if you did and you'd like to see some more drag races just click on those boxes there if you click on that box there you can go to car why to check out the car wow drag race leaderboard where we list the times of all the cars with drag race so you can see how these three match up compared to all the other cars thanks for watching\n"