For months now I've been driving my blue Golf w/Bilstein HDs. I think I've put on about 10k miles on it since I got it. Today I fetched MY Golf from the body shop (after sitting there for several months, and all work done
) and I am absolutely thrilled to have it and its ride back. The difference is like night and day. Where the HDs BAM over stuff the STR.Ts seem to soak up bumps and keep you powering along. Perhaps for outright performance the HDs are better, but these aren't sports cars; AND, how long can you stay aggressive when you're getting beat around? I take enough beating on my tractors, I don't need to have my cars do the same.