CAN IT REALLY BE 20 YEARS SINCE THAT first, V6-powered Golf R32? Well yes, it can, and it is, and to celebrate the occasion we have this, the slightly awkwardly christened Golf R ‘20 Years’.
It’s fair to say that evo hasn’t been the biggest fan of the Mk8 Golf R. Its predecessor, love it or loathe it, was such an important milestone in the development arc of the hot hatch, but the 8R is simply not the step forward we might legitimately have expected. On the contrary, in fact: in quite a