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Given its likely buyer ? let?s face it, those who rate show over go ? the Eos is more than acceptably quick (Eos White Night special edition pictured).
Ah, yes - that roof.
Next to a common or garden Golf – or GTI for that matter – the Eos remains fairly novel. So it is that even several years post-launch, demonstrating that trick roof seems a vaguely Transformerish exercise.
As the installation hums up or down electronically, bits emerging or submerging into the body, you half-expect it to sprout .50 calibre Brownings or a set of surface-to-air missiles.
The addition of either would be welcome in Sydney traffic, whose purgatorial aspect is soon likely to become quite Victorian when the government of Maid Marionette Keneally tumbles to the revenue-sucking potential of privately-operated speed cameras.
Ahem … anyway, more practically, the roof provides rapid relief when you’ve underestimated the day’s UV rays. A red light or halt in the traffic flow (or rather, in Sydney, the traffic status quo) and you can be under cover within seconds. Handy, that.
Given its likely buyer – let’s face it, those who rate show over go – the Eos is more than acceptably quick. Indeed, at around 7.5 seconds to 100 from standing (driven via a DSG), it’s barely more than half a second outside the time of a GTI of the same transmission.
Not within cooee of even Mark V GTI’s agility though, at least on its standard suspension and 17-inch wheel set up. You can, of course, up option to 18s and a tautened ride, but should you?
I wonder if the standard setting isn’t only more relaxed and comfortable, but more in keeping with the CC’s cruisey character? Certainly, I’m not minding the Eos’s ability to deal with the third world nature of the so-called Premier State’s urban and provincial roads. A case of less being more, maybe?
