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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With the European winter season at its end, car makers from around the world have descended upon Germany’s fabled Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit to test out their most recent creations.

A recent addition to the circuit test roster is Volkswagen, with shots of its new performance hatchback, the Golf R20T (or GTI-R) finding their way onto the [...]

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The good folks at NextAutos have got their hands on spy photos of the oft-rumoured Volkswagen Golf R20 or GTI-R (there seems to be no confirmation on which we should expect to see) during testing at the Nurburgring.

The Golf in the spy photos is badged as a TDI, but the dual pipes jutting from the centre [...]

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Rumours continue to flow thick and fast about the next Golf to feature a capital R somewhere in its name.  Last week we touched on the talk of a possible GTI-R or R20, and this week those rumours are back, again, with a vengeance.

UK rag AutoExpress has a chunky dose of rumour-mania for us today, [...]

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Back in September last year, we talked about the rumours of a diesel version of the upcoming MkVI GTI, and the R42: a four-cylinder turbo, all-wheel-drive model intended to succeed the Volkswagen R32 at the top of Golf hierarchy.  This seemed almost prescient when the news came through that the R32 would be dropped, and [...]

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