Volkswagen announced earlier this year that it would be entering the World Rally Championship starting in 2013 with the Polo R, and we got our first glimpse of the race car here in Frankfurt.

Volkswagen and its Polo WRC has dominated the World Rally Championship since entering in 2013, but the automaker, which has just clinched its fourth-straight Drivers’ and Manufacturers&rsquo ...

2004 Volkswagen R32. David E. Davis, Jr. Writer Nov 12, 2004. See All 2 Photos. ... It features very zoomy front seats, not unlike the molded seats one might find in a WRC rally car; ...

We have some bad news for all you Volkswagen R32 fans out there: Thomas Wegehaupt, spokesman for Volkswagen, has informed us that there will be no U.S. version of the R32 for the 2009 model year ...

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VW’s WRC rivals happy with performance. By Carl McKellar Published on 03/11/2013 - 7:47 PM. Citroen and M-Sport say Sebastien Ogier, not the Polo, is the reason for VW’s immediate success.

Volkswagen Delivers 200,000 R Models Since 2002 Golf R32. Published: 6 Jul 2018, 18 ... “Volkswagen R is a small business that ... Volkswagen also made a few thousand units of the Polo R WRC, ...

Eriksson was behind the wheel of Volkswagen Motorsport’s Golf GTi Mk 2, and took the victory – admittedly not in front of the strongest WRC field ever assembled – from Kenyan driver Shekhar ...

Like the R32's curb weight, this number, too, is a little heavy--$29,675, or $7030 more than the base price for a GTI VR6, and comparable to the WRX STi and the Evo. That's a pricey Golf, for sure ...

VW claims a 0-to-62-mph time of 6.2 seconds for the Euro-spec R32 we drove. But we got six flat out of the last-generation R32 we tested, and that was 0.4 second quicker than VW's claim.

Volkswagen’s 3.2-liter V-6 engine generates 240 horsepower and 236 pounds-feet of torque in the R32. That’s sufficient to yield a 0-to-60-mph acceleration time of 6.4 seconds.

If the Mk4 VW Golf GTI was something of a damp squib, then the Volkswagen Golf R32 made everything better. It already has a cult following.