HERE’S SOME NEWS certain to set the pulses of enthusiasts running a little hotter.

VW Australia Managing Director, Ms Anke Koeckler, confirmed to The Motor Report that the hot replacement for the Golf R32, the Golf R, is headed here in 2010, and the grunt-filled Golf GTD is also a “big probability”.

“We expect to have [...]

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ALTHOUGH A CONCRETE BUSINESS CASE for the Scirocco has yet to be made,  Volkswagen Australia may bring the low-slung hatchback to our shores in high-performance Scirocco R guise only.

However pricing remains the number one stumbling block, with the cost of the Scirocco putting it well above that of the Golf range and potentially making it [...]

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PERHAPS ONE of the most hotly anticipated debuts this year, technical details and images for the 2010 Volkswagen Golf R were revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show last week.

Today, Volkswagen has released new promotional footage featuring the aggressively styled Golf R driving alongside its even more dramatic-looking sibling the Scirocco R.

Successor to the [...]

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The 2010 Volkswagen Golf VI GTI, launching in Australia later this year.

REPORTS ARE CIRCULATING that Volkswagen is preparing to unveil its most powerful Golf model yet at next week’s Frankfurt Motor Show.

Dubbed the Golf R, this new model will become the performance flagship of the Golf range, taking over from the outgoing R32 as the [...]

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VOLKSWAGEN IS PREPARING to reveal the rumoured Golf R at the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show, a turbocharged, all-wheel-drive successor to the Golf R32.

The Golf R will dump the R32’s 3.2 litre naturally aspirated V6 in favour of a tuned version of the Golf GTI’s 2.0 litre turbocharged inline four, but will retain the R32’s Haldex [...]

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Volkswagen is rumoured to be prepping not one, not two, but four new cars for unveiling at the Frankfurt Auto Show in September, with a hardcore Golf expected to drop alongside an all-new pickup, a Golf wagon and a Polo-based and Scirocco-inspired hot hatch.

The Volkswagen Robust will essentially be a productionised version of the VW [...]

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