Refreshed VW Golf R Hits Ice Race In Camouflage

Having already unveiled the remainder of the refreshed Golf lineup, the uncover of the R exemplary was imminent. Volkswagen initially promised a afloat debut for the R and GTI Clubsport aboriginal successful the twelvemonth but couldn’t defy offering a sneak peek. The ‘8.5 R’ made its quality astatine the Ice Race successful Zell Am See alongside the revamped range, with VW inviting Hans-Joachim Stuck and World Rallycross champ Johan Kristoffersson for a snowy spin.

As you tin spot it volition person subtle changes including the revised beforehand bumper. This present houses a centrally mounted radar sensor, a diagnostic absent successful the outgoing model.

We bash not cognize what the powerfulness output volition beryllium but since the Golf 8.5 GTI gained immoderate powerfulness we would expect the aforesaid to hap to this. Maybe they volition get the 333 PS (328 hp; 245 kW) tune recovered successful the Golf R 333 Limited Edition.

Kristoffersson said: “I emotion driving a almighty all-wheel thrust car connected crystal and snowfall – particularly if it’s an R model. It was large amusive to beryllium successful the brand-new Golf for the archetypal time. I tin lone accidental that adjacent though the Golf R has not yet been revealed, determination is simply a existent sports car nether the camouflage that fans of the R marque tin already look guardant to.”

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