The three months since my trusty BMW 130i was taken away seem to have dragged on forever, but when I was offered the chance to run its closest rival, VW’s Golf R32, I thought it would be well ...

If you love your old-school hot hatches, you’ll like what HPerformance has done with a Mk4 Volkswagen Golf R32 here. The R32 was the flagship variant in the Golf range at the time, before being ...

It’s a Mk5 Volkswagen Golf R32 twin-turbo boasting 485kW (650hp) thanks to a comprehensive HPA twin-turbo kit and 3.6-litre stroker engine. The Volkswagen Golf R32 is already a very potent ...

The six-cylinder mill was based on the same engine that powered the Golf R32 (Mk5). It's worth noting this wasn't the last Golf built by VW with a VR-6 engine. When we did a retrospective of the ...