New Volkswagen Golf Racer Announced

Here’s a first look at Volkswagen’s Race Spec Golf. It’s low, wide, and it’s got 330hp inside.

Volkswagen just wants racers in their Golfs

The German automotive Megacorp just released images of its new, 330HP Track Beast for use in a world-wide Touring Car championship. It boasts everything you could want in a track car, a great big wing, super sticky Michelin tires, a rollcage, flappy buttons for the DSG transmission, and hoodpins; who doesn’t love hoodpins?

It’s got a body kit that will give even the most hardcore Tremblant time attack veteran a semi, and the latest announcement is that it will be aggressively tested under competition conditions. So basically they’re gonna advertise their track concept to tracksters on tracks. Sounds like a foolproof and efficient marketing plan, and those two adjectives are about as German as it comes.

It’s a beefier, juicier Golf R, which means it will likely be very expensive for a 4-door hatchback. The number of doors is confusing, since there’s only one seat. Sounds like an enthusiast’s dream and a soccer-mom’s nightmare.

The primary question that arises when a race-edition gets unveiled is “How far can you really extend a platform?” Do Canadians really want a race-spec golf? Is there a market for this in Canada? It doesn’t appear like Volkswagen thinks so, the testing will be taking place during race weeks in Asia

28–29/03/2015 Malaysia (Sepang)*
11–12/04/2015 China (Shanghai)*
02–03/05/2015 Spain (Valencia)
09–10/05/2015 Portugal (Algarve)
23–24/05/2015 Italy (Monza)
30–31/05/2015 Austria (Salzburgring)
20–21/06/2015 Russia (Sochi)
11–12/07/2015 Austria (Spielberg)
19–20/09/2015 Singapore*
24–25/10/2015 Thailand (Buriram)
21–22/11/2015 Macau

So if you live in Edmonton and you’d like to get a look at this thing, you can always whip on down to Macau.