A year on from its Auto China 2014 debut, the rabid Volkswagen Golf R 400 appears to be progressing nicely from show stand to showroom – our European spies have spotted a development mule around the Nürburgring’s peripheral roads, pretty much confirming a previous report that the car has received the green light for production.
The prototype sighted looks like a “regular” Golf R at first glance, but a closer inspection reveals a few telltale signs that this car means business. The wider wheels – Lamborghini Gallardo-like Speedline Corse SL3’s shod with track-biased Michelin Pilot Sport Cup tyres – are immediately apparent, but they also hide larger brakes (the lightweight wavy front discs appear to have been nicked from an Audi RS4).
Also clear to see are wider wheel arch bulges to clear the wheels, a small front splitter and a rear wing that appears to be even larger than the one on the concept. Of course, there’s also a more prominent intercooler aft of the lower front intake that hints of the car’s performance potential.
That would most likely come from the same 2.0 litre turbocharged TSI four-pot as on the concept – there, it develops 400 PS and 450 Nm, sent to all four wheels through a six-speed DSG. If recent reports are to be believed, the production version could actually end up with even more power – rumoured to be 420 PS, shared with the Audi TT quattro sport concept – which would gain it an R 420 badge instead.
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Great car. But not everyone that can afford VW can afford Golf-R.
But anyone that can afford an Audi can.
Downgrade the badge and gets lots of grunt instead.
TT Quattro or this Monster in sheep’s clothing?
Great car, but with low reliability, expensive maintenance and poor services. Good luck to the owners.
The TT for sure. I’d even sacrifice some of those grunts for the interior of the TT, after all I’d be sitting inside of the car everytime I drive.
Agreed…That’s why I bought the A250 instead of Golf GTI. Never regret…
Crazy horsepower battle… a 450PS hot hatch? When is it going to end? Looks good. Focus RS competitor?
It’s not that powerful when DSG fails
Lol,the car just come in production stage and haven’t start the sale so fast conclude it with DSG failure. What a joke.
SOFA!!!
420, light it up
The car will spend most of its time in the service center getting all the technical issues rectified
another joker detected!!!
Wow.. Nice car.
It is time for PM to counter the attack & keep his promise. Instead of 30%, why not make it 48.9% reduction to make the Proton adviser stun. Else who can afford this car.
Can go to toilet for a moment while waiting for the turbo to spool up.
Proton sucks. Period.
Fail commment
Iriz is more beautiful than this crap! Proton is more good RV than this crap VW! But buy Toyota Better! Good RV!
Toyota not safety, because of no sales so everyday salesman too free to come over here and bash all the cars.
Talk about stressing a small engine like no tmr….
all those high powered small 4 cylinder engines have no soul, and theres no nice sound that comes out of it to love it…
Id rather have a lower powered v6 engine…
I can see lighter weight n emissions being the only reason for it…
The fold now has way too many variants, maybe being vw, with all the resources thy have, should have come out with a new model, new design n offer it with this same chasis..
Love German engineering. No other country are even close to their level.
yea, look at that 420ps roughly 414hp! that performance is amazing. It’s sure a nice car… so tempting