Golf R 400 full press release

[Ginge 35Edition]

Not sure about the exhausts but I've just emailed my bro and ordered my next company car!

[Snoopy]

I wait to see if it ever makes production.
I like the idea of a 400ps golf but dont know if I would ever use that amount of power or really need it on the road.
I think theres is a balance for everyday road cars you can have too much power making it too fast.

Wonder what the turbo lag and fuel consumption ends up been..
Saying all that it could really tempt me... (hart over head)...

Not sure of all the yellow detailing inside or to a lesser extent outside. I think they could have used a different colour.

Probably end up been 40k if its ever made.  If its a limited edition 45k?

[Exonian]

Looking at the R forum it seems there are plenty enough (considering the low numbers to be sold) people that think nothing of spending that sort of money on a Golf 'just because' so it'll sell well enough for the purposes intended.
400bhp in a road car? You're not going to get to use much of it considering it's a 2.0 engine meaning it will have to have a huuuuge turbo meaning pretty much all of the performance will be at licence using territory in the UK.
People that can afford it will buy it because they can.
I think the best thing about it is the fact it can be done and it's good to see VW doing something mad like that.
Shame they didn't use blue trims for the grille like the G60 Limited from 1990 or thereabouts in the old Volkswagen Motorsport colour but the lemon must mean something same as the VXR thingy.

[Jimmy Filth]

The blue trim is on the GTE, so think VW is just running out of colours

DTUK are talking a out their S3 being 400bhp at stage 2.

[Jimble]

Hubba hubba!!!


http://youtu.be/Eh5GdYUvw2Q

[Jimble]

I really like the quads on mine now but these would've been better imo....

[Ginge 35Edition]

Each time I look at this I think "why wouldn't VeeDub make this"? Some forums are comparing it to the w12 which only ever stayed as concept but this is as close to a production concept as you can get.

[KyleB]

Looks amazing - loving them rear tail pipes.

Shame, as others have mentioned, it'll probably never get made.

[jv]

I reckon it will happen 

[Ginge 35Edition]

What year is the 40th anniversary of the GTi? 2016?