Volkswagen never made a coupe that looks as good as the E46, and its AWD systems are not as famous as "quattro." But there is at least one Golf that deserves the title of a modern classic, and that's ...

Not everyone will get the Volkswagen R32. And we aren’t saying that solely because availability of the all-wheel-drive, V6-powered Golf is limited to 5000 cars for the U.S. market. The boy-racer types ...

"German car" is an expression that used to mean something completely different about 20 years ago. Back then, it meant a vehicle with brand new engineering and technology that you probably couldn't ...

The R32 was powered by a 3.2-liter, 24-valve VR6 engine which produced 238 hp, also used in the Audi TT. The seven-speed dual ...

Last time we turned out heads and ears to listen to a VW Golf growl, it was wearing an R32 badge at the back and a 3.2-liter V6 powerplant at the front. Care to guess what makes this…modified (for ...

Volkswagen has confirmed pricing and specification for the most powerful production Golf to date, the new R32. The second generation high performance, four-wheel drive Golf goes on sale in the UK in ...

One of our favorite high-end tuners is HPA Motorsports, best known for its 500-hp, twin-turbo Golf R32 that was featured in Gran Turismo 4 as well as various national automotive mags. In one of the ...

VW's 2008 R32 looks vaguely like the Rabbit and GTI on which it's based, but there are significant mechanical differences between the cars. The 250-horsepower V6 elevates the VW to compete with ...

Viknesh Vijayenthiran March 22, 2008 Comment Now! The Golf R32 is by no means slow but the sheer number of tuning kits available for the torquey hot-hatch reveals there are a lot of people out there ...

So, no MkIII "VW364" Scirocco R from Wolfsburg for us U.S. Desert Jackals. But we do get the MkVI "VW360" Golf R hot hatch with a touch more horsepower (at 266) and the same torque (at 258 lb-ft) as ...

Viknesh Vijayenthiran February 8, 2007 Comment Now! Volkswagen today announced the return of its motorsport-inspired R32 at the Chicago Auto Show, a potent hatch with much of the same running gear as ...

August 9, 2005 -- WOLFSBURG, Germany -- It was the most powerful Golf ever. The Golf R32 powered by a 177 kW (241 bhp) engine was first launched in August 2002. Not only was it one of the hottest cars ...