2016 Volkswagen Golf R400 First Spy Photos Show Hyper-Hatch with AWD
20 May 2015, 08:12 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Golf R400 will apparently be unveiled at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show in September and go on sale by the end of 2015 or early 2016
ASPEC PPV400 Is a 400 HP Golf R from China That Looks Like a Lamborghini
11 May 2015, 11:48 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We've never heard of ASPEC before, but they did a wonderful job tuning the Golf R, extracting more power and adding carbon looks
2016 Ford Focus RS vs Golf R and Audi RS3 - Hyper Hatch Photo Comparison
3 Feb 2015, 17:01 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / If you have a fourtune to spend on an AWD hatchback that can outrun a Porsche Cayman, these are your choices: the Germans versus Ken Block
World’s Fastest VW Golf R Is a 10s Quarter Mile Car on Stock Engine Internals
29 Dec 2014, 18:57 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Hot hatches weren’t exactly built for the quarter mile run, but today we’re here to talk about a Volkswagen that feels at home on the drag strip. We are talking about a car that currentl...
2015 Golf R Launch Edition Costs $39,000, Goes on Sale in January
20 Dec 2014, 12:12 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen of America has just announced it will begin taking orders for the first 500 units of the 2015 Golf R, all of which will belong to the launch edition. Die-hard Golf fans will have to fork ...
Volkswagen Golf 7 R Gets Sports Exhaust System from Milltek
17 Nov 2014, 16:48 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / From the 220 HP Golf GTI to the 280 HP Leon Cupra, the exhaust specialists from Derby we know as Milltek have pretty much done their work on every cool new 2-liter hot hatch from the Volkswagen Grou...
Volkswagen Wants a 240 HP Diesel Golf R. Do You?
10 Oct 2014, 11:09 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Diesel hot hatches have taken on a life of their own the past year. As more and more people are put off by their huge fuel costs, sales of cars like the Golf GTD have risen. Ford has just launched i...
Golf R Smashes into Honda S2000: VTEC Never Kicked in Yo
27 Aug 2014, 13:39 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / There is, however, one type of traffic in the world that's more dangerous than any other kind – Nurburgring traffic. Accidents happen there on just about every day of the week. Most of th...
Monster Golf R36 Bi-Turbo Humiliates German Performance Cars
25 Aug 2014, 10:03 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / From the very first moment we saw the title of this next video, we knew something strange was going on. After all, why would a Golf R be allowed to race at the Moscow Mile, where only the big boys w...
ABT Volkswagen Golf R Has 400 HP, Tops 300 KM/H
23 Aug 2014, 12:54 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The hot hatch segment is probably the most effervescent area on the go-fast side of the industry and when a tuner adds its magic to one of these compacts, you should expect the performance to jump d...
2014 Audi S3, Golf R and Leon Cupra Developing Turbo Problems
4 Aug 2014, 11:54 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / As cool as squeezing lots of power from a small engine is, it comes with reliability problems. The injectors, the turbo and the cylinders themselves are all pushed harder than in a naturally aspirat...
Which Is the Fastest, the Golf R or the Leon Cupra 280?
5 Jul 2014, 11:20 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Here’s a question that’s been bugging people for a few months now: If I have somewhere over €30,000 to spend on a hot hatch, do I go for the new generation of legendary Golf R or sa...
745 HP Golf R Smokes a Lamborghini Gallardo
19 May 2014, 17:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Volkswagen Golf has had it up to here with all your supercar nonsense. It's taken steroids buffed up and is here to whoop every Italian tush on the block. After teaching the Ferrari hors...
Volkswagen Golf R 400 Beijing Concept Heading for Production
22 Apr 2014, 11:18 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Volkswagen seems like it is not going to let Audi’s 2015 RS3 fight the Mercedes A45 AMG and BMW M135i on its own, with the carmaker introducing a 400 PS (395 hp) Golf R concept at the 2014 Bei...
Audi S3 vs Golf 7 R vs BMW M235i: The 300 HP Comparison
14 Apr 2014, 15:57 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / With numbers that look very close on paper, these three German vehicles represent a modern day pinnacle of compact car performance. However, they are as different as night and day. Starting with ...
Golf 7 R Taken to 420 HP by B&B Automobiltechnik
7 Mar 2014, 16:29 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We all miss the VR6. It had character and presence in a way few other models of its time did. However, even though it packs a downsized 2-liter turbo, the new Golf R has a fantastically fruity exhau...
Golf R 3-Door Rides on Vossen Wheels in Florida
26 Feb 2014, 13:02 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Hello kids. Today we're going to school you in the meaning of the letter R. Of course it's part of the alphabet, but for Vdub fans it means so much more, it means the ultimate version of t...
Japanese Volkswagen Golf R Launched with Detuned 280 HP Engine
22 Feb 2014, 13:24 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen has only been focusing hard on the Japanese market for a couple of years, but their efforts are showing. We've seen all sorts of crazy tuning projects involving Golfs and even the ti...
ABT Tunes New Golf R to 370 HP for Geneva
21 Feb 2014, 09:06 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen's new Golf R which made its debut last year packs 300 horsepower, making it the fastest Golf ever put into production. But, if you compare it to something like the A45 AMG, it's...
VW Golf R32 vs R20 Milltex Exhaust Battle
31 Jan 2014, 15:33 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Europe doesn't have Corvettes or Camaros and not every middle-aged man can afford a Porsche once the biological clock shows 45. So what's he to do, where is the fun car for the bloke who a...