Very little badging is visible back here. Looking at the rear, you can see that the tail lights are now all-LED as well. They’re wrapped in 235 section Bridgestone Potenza S005 summer performance tires. The mirror caps feature a metal cover, similar to what you can find on Audi S-line models.Īs for rims, the Golf R features gorgeous-looking 19-inch wide-spoke wheels with black inner spokes. There is a tiny R badge when you look at the remainder of the side profile. But you don’t really get a Golf R for its gas mileage do you now?įrom the side, you can tell that this is still based on the MQB architecture sitting at around 168 inches long and a wheelbase that is 103.5 inches. Tat for instance the gas mileage, rated at 20 city and 30 on the highway, which are decent numbers.
While a special drift mode lets you happily get the tail end out, the Golf R still has the advantage of coming in as an excellent daily driver. However, you can easily switch the stability control to a sport level from this mode. You can enter a special mode that effectively puts the vehicle in maximum attack mode and resembles a special mode for the Nürburgring. The front-mounted limited-slip differential further aids handling. The Golf R's standard adaptive dampers have 15 different levels of adjustment, allowing you to effectively switch from an extremely firm suspension all the way down to a comfort suspension. You should get excellent stopping power from them. You get blue-painted calipers on each corner, with the R logo stamped on the front. The brakes on this latest generation Golf R from VW were dramatically improved and now feature 14.1-inch diameter slotted discs with four-piston fixed calipers up front and 12.2-inch diameter slotted discs at the rear. Now a Golf R is so much more than just the drivetrain and powertrain. The Golf R's top speed is 155 mph, although it can reach almost 170 mph if you take off the limiter. should do it in the low five-second range. The automatic is almost 100 pounds heavier and weighs little more than 3,400 pounds.Īs for acceleration, VW claims that the DSG should reach 60 mph in around 4.7 seconds while the six-speed, which is only available in the U.S. It is capable of directing 100 percent of the power in one direction and up to 50 percent of the power in the other. An all-wheel-drive system comes as standard. If you opt for the seven-speed DSG, you get 295 pound-feet of torque in place of the six-speed manual's 280 pound-feet.
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The 2022 Golf R puts out approximately 30 more horsepower than the model it replaces making it the fastest and most powerful series production Golf R, to date. Under the hood of the 2022 Golf R lies a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine, that produces 315 horsepower and up to 280 pound-feet of torque. The MK7 Golf R was starting to fall behind the competition and VW chose to give the Golf R a much-needed power boost on this latest iteration.
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