Of course, the best bit about the Golf R is its duality. It’ll take a pounding on track – over four sessions and 1h 20min, it ...

The 2024 Volkswagen Golf R offers an impressive performance pedigree. Its 2.0-liter turbo four makes 315 horsepower and 280 pound-feet of torque when paired to its 6-speed manual transmission. That ...

The 2025 Volkswagen Golf R is no longer just an all-wheel-drive GTI-plus hot hatch. Volkswagen pushed the R to a new level with the introduction of the torque-vectoring rear differential that arrived ...

The Volkswagen Golf R popularized the hot-hatch genre of sporty, higher-performance versions of more-pedestrian models, starting with the transformation of the European Golf in the 1970s and the ...

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UPDATE 10/6/25: This review has been updated with instrumented test results. The winding rural roads that lead to West Virginia's Summit Point Motorsports Park are the perfect appetizer for a real ...

Having premiered the facelifted Golf lineup last week, including the GTI front-wheel drive hot hatch, Volkswagen has now turned its attention to the upcoming Golf R. The range-topping member of the ...

The 2025 Volkswagen Golf R defines modern hot-hatch performance, combining impressive power with real-world practicality.

With the recent news of the end of the manual transmission for the GTI and Golf R, the writing is on the wall for one of the all-time-greatest performance cars, in this configuration anyway. They'll ...