I drive a 96 honda accord and my dad just got a 2003 VW golf and when i drive it it feels weird. When i hit the gas on my accord its solid and hard but when i hit the gas on the VW golf it feels loose i can hit the bottom of the car in the gas and it wont make any reaction
“hit the bottom of the car in the gas”
sorry, I have no idea what this means.
you know when you hit the gas all the way down and the car will make noise but its easy to do that like in a honda if you do that its a little harder
When you press the accelerator pedal does the car increase speed like it should? And why do you need to shove it to the floor anyway?
I can’t understand at all what you’re trying to ask. Maybe it’s a Fahrvergnugen thing… 
I could ask:
A. If this is a diesel…
B. What your dad thinks about your flooring the pedal on a car he just bought…
Your dad’s VW may not have the power that your Accord does. It probably has a smaller engine size.
You may want to just drive your dads car the way you suspect he would drive it. After all it is his, and whenever you drive someone else’s vehicle, you drive it with tender care IT’s NOT YOUR"S!!!
If you blow the transmission on dad’s car are you going to tell him, "Dad it broke while I was driving it, so I’ll pay the $3000 for the new tranny and the labot to install it.
Yosemite
I realize that the OP is not a “car person”, so I think it is important to clarify a few things.
When you “floor” the gas pedal on that VW, do you have a situation where the tachometer shows increasing engine speed, but the car does not seem to accelerate commensurate with the number of revs that the tachometer is showing?
If the answer to that question is “yes”, then there are two likely scenarios:
If the VW has a manual transmission, then the clutch is slipping
If the VW has an automatic transmission, then the transmission is slipping
Or, is it a case of flooring the gas pedal, but the engine speed doesn’t increase?
Please clarify this for us.
The reason the gas pedal on your Accord feels different from that of the Golf is, the gas pedal on your Accord operates a throttle cable to the throttle body. Whereas, the gas pedal on the Golf is a drive-by-wire setup.
This means that instead of using a throttle cable to operate the throttle body, the Golf has a throttle pedal position sensor which sends a signal to the computer, and from that signal the computer operates the throttle body.
If you’re trying to rev the Golf while it’s not in gear, the computer see’s no reason to apply more power to the engine.
Tester