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VW Golf R

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Writer:

Dan Prosser | Ti co-founder

Date:

16 April 2021

The previous Golf R was so popular with buyers – thanks partly to an endless torrent of glowing media reports but mostly because of those almost irresistible lease deals – that Volkswagen wasn’t about to fiddle with the basic formula too much. This latest version still has four-wheel drive, a 2-litre turbo engine with around 300bhp and a DSG gearbox (in its later years the Mk7 was only offered with paddles), and those tempting lease offers are out there already.

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