golf R

[philthy]

I reckon that looks a lot lot nicer than the GTI. Wheels will have to go though!

+1. Wheels are nasty, but the details of the grille and smoked taillights etc. are very nice IMHO.

It's a bit of a shame they didn't splash some matt chrome around the front.

[team_v]

+1. Wheels are nasty, but the details of the grille and smoked taillights etc. are very nice IMHO.

It's a bit of a shame they didn't splash some matt chrome around the front.

Agree completely.
The press release thread is in the watercooled media lounge.

Matte Chrome = Brushed aluminium????

[philthy]

Matte Chrome = Brushed aluminium????

Whatever the stuff is around the grill on the current R's

[Golf Mark 6]

I think it looks pretty nice apart from the wheels. I really like the R32's low-profile spoked wheels, they'd look awesome on the new version.

The rims in the pioc look very similar to the ones on the standard TSI (but bigger). Perhaps Golf is trying to get a standardised "corporate look" for their wheels?

The performance figures seem ridiculous. I'd wait for the actual launch in Frankfurt before worrying about them...

[mrpayne]

I would say that the figures have been 'watered down' somewhat as to keep some space between this and the S3, wouldn't want to be seen to be hunting its big brother, which has very similar sort of specs...

[Dyldo]

yeah, i reckon the figures have bee watered down similar to the way WRX/Evos would have their hp figures muddled to get past Jap laws. Seeing as the S3 will be a majorly mouth-watering car, VW wouldn't want to sniper the S3 sales by selling a cheaper "same" car.

As for the rims, I'll let them sit for a while. I don't know what it is about rims, but it takes me AGES to like/dislike a rim. I hated the Zolders when they came out and now i really like them. Jury is still out on the Omanyts.

As for the overall looks, I have to say it is EXACTLY what i thought it'd be. Sure, the Scirocco will look the ducks nuts but the Golf R looks to me to be the perfect design to complement the current Mk6's and the look. Lets face it, the jump they've made from the Mk5 to the Mk6 is nothing like the style jump they made from the Mk4 to the Mk5. As many have said, the Mk6 is really a Mk5.5, so the Golf R looks fine.

The key with the R is its vocal chords. I wanna know and hear and feel what this baby sounds like. The 2 R's before it have sounded absolute amazing.

[Golf Mark 6]

now if VW Australia is nice enough to release BOTH the R-'Rocco and the R-Golf here It'd make a lot of us happy...

[Corey_R]

I personally love those rims. They looked great on the Scirroco R, and they look great on this imo.
As for all of you who are surprised by the styling. Given this has basically all the changes to it which the Scirroco R did, I'm not sure how you could be surprised?!

[cktsi]

I really liked the differentiation between the Mark V R32 and the rest of the Mark V range. They should have done something more visually on the front other than solely use the GTI's beefed up mouth-full-of-marbles bumper & the LED's.

The Mark V R32 looks better than this Mark VI R20 IMHO.

I don't think that they're worried about the cannibalisation of S3 sales from the R20. It's a different market. Audi do use different componentry & have more features e.g. their electrically adjustable seats for driver & passenger. No golfs have this.

I saw an S3 just yesterday, and visually it stands out from the standard A3 and definitely looks better than the R20 (esp with it's fantastic lights!)... so it's apples & oranges to me.

At the end of the day though... irrespective of it's looks, I'm just glad there's a Golf AWD halo car to look up to

[G-rig]

I think they've done a good job and it looks great..

The wheels look good to me in this shot (but nothing you can't change anyway):