In factory stock form, the Mk IV Volkswagen Golf R32 is a bit like the Lexus LFA - the engineering masterpiece aura shines strong and yet the performance isn't at the top of the genre anymore.

Usually, you can tell what kind of engine a performance car has by the segment it occupies. Hot hatch? Usually a four-cylinder turbo. Large German premium sedan? Probably a 600 horsepower V8. But this ...

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 ...

The regular Volkswagen Golf 4 was the German car maker’s attempt to move the model upmarket. A process that spawned one of the well-built and all-rounded compacts ever. The fact that there’s still ...

🔥 Street-built monster vs factory hypertech! The 950HP VW Golf 3 R32 Turbo 4Motion faces off against a brutal 1100HP McLaren 765LT. AWD grip vs lightweight aerodynamics – this is a battle of ...

The Volkswagen Golf R is perhaps the most well-rounded hot hatchback available, if you’re willing to pay for it. Between its powerful turbocharged engine and all-wheel-drive grip, not many rivals can ...

We recently attended the SoCal R32 GTG near Los Angeles (see p78) where over 130 R32s gathered from across the US. There were cars of every hue, from Reflex silver, Tornado red and deep blue metallic ...

Why do we do what we do? Not to get too philosophical here, but it’s a perfectly legitimate question. Perhaps more so when you consider what we do to our cars. Aside from the odd junkyard-save, we ...

I’m not entirely sure what to call this creature. It is, or at one point appears to have been, a MKIV Volkswagen R32 Golf. Then some guys at a Serbian shop got ahold of it, lost their freakin’ minds, ...

The original Volkswagen GTI is credited with starting the entire hot hatchback phenomenon. But somewhere along the line, the mad scientists at Volkswagen decided their hot Golf wasn't quite as hot as ...

Viknesh Vijayenthiran February 13, 2008 Comment Now! If you were disappointed by VW’s decision not to shoehorn its potent 3.6L V6 into the Golf then you'll be glad to hear German company HGP has gone ...