Didn’t get chance to take a snap but saw my first Golf 8R in the flesh yesterday.
Lapiz Blue in I’d guess standard spec sat on a dealer forecourt.
Not the best of days to show off the signature colour and it looked very plain viewed side on with the standard 18” wheels, but the front and rear ends look way better than in photos.
The front bumper has way more prescience than a mk7 R and the rear diffuser looks well proportioned and mean.
The shiny plastic slats look nice and easy to clean (compared to the GTI honeycomb at least) but will be a nightmare for swirls.
I liked the standard cloth seats.
The Performance Pack ones will look really good.
Quite a few jokes on here about £50k R’s owing mostly to the incredulity that you can easily spec a Golf to that sizeable amount nowadays, but the reality is you don’t need to spend
quite that much to get a nice R by being sensible with spec and maximising discounts and incentives.
I put this thread up originally to see what people’s thoughts were being as the two models are fairly close on power and price sans extras. Most people shared the view (myself included) that the R needs quite a lot extra spending on it to get it to be what they’d like it to be. Having seen one in the metal now I reckon with a decent set of 19’s on it you could easily get away with having a fairly vanilla R and not feel a bit like there’s something missing.
And before anyone says it, no I’m not
