VW Golf R32: Road test by TopGear

The TopGear guys did it again: they took one of the hottest legal cars and made a road test with the VW Golf R32.

Here comes that sound again. A low, chesty V6 thrum, building to a frantic yowl at high revs that threatens to knock the birds from the trees and scare the wild boar clean out of the forest.

It's part race car, part supercar, part Tyrannosaurus rex in origin, and most definitely not the sort of racket you'd expect from a Volkswagen. But then this is a new-era Volkswagen that we're dealing with here, the vivid blue flagship for a louder, flashier, more belligerent corporate approach.

Prepare to be dazzled, at least by the quantities of chrome and highly polished metal bounding both inside and out. Up front, the latest Golf GTI's deep, honeycomb mesh snout has been surplanted by a chromed beak filled with horizontal strakes, like hanging a Venetian blind over a mirror.

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Source: TopGear, picture by Volkswagen

VW Golf R32: Road test by TopGear

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