Originally Posted by
Gladbach
I've got about 450km on the clock now. The exhaust sound is very muted, so to be honest you may be disappointed. For me, I've come to accept that, and after a lot of thought, I think that I'd prefer that it doesn't have a bassy drone the whole time. I like the classiness of a smoth quiet ride around town.
What I have noticed, is that even after just those Ks, the engine is already starting to open up. I'm not pushing it really hard (avoiding going beyond 4-5k rpm) but I'm driving it with a little more urgency now and it seems a lot more responsive. The engine sound when pushed a bit does sound sporty too (with more pedestrian treatment it sounds a bit diesel like, which is typical for a 4 pot high compression engine I guess). I love the DSG as well, it has really crisp changes, but they don't sound thin - when giving it a bit, the changes sound solid and assertive (I don't know how else to describe it).
But yeah, I don't want to give you the wrong impression, all of the nice sounds when pushing it hard are coming from the engine bay, not from the exhaust.
