To understand the Mk4 Volkswagen Golf R32’s impact, it’s important to understand the Golf Mk4’s overall lack of appeal for driving enthusiasts. Here was a car that topped its class for ...

To understand the Mk4 Volkswagen Golf R32’s impact, it’s important to understand the Golf Mk4’s overall lack of appeal for driving enthusiasts. Here was a car that topped its class for ...

the first Volkswagen Golf R32 was based on the MK4 Golf platform, and it propelled the hot hatch genre into an entirely new dimension by adding all-wheel drive to its tried-and-true formula.

Central to the R32’s flexible nature is its fourth-generation Golf chassis modified for VW’s 4MOTION all-wheel-drive system. Gone is the torsion-beam rear suspension (and with it the Golf/GTI ...

Older website perusers and readers of CAR, look away now: I was nine years old when VW’s all-out all-wheel drive Golf R32 arrived in the UK in 2002. It ended up being one of those cars that ...

Internally referred to as EA390, the narrow-angle sixer develops a very respectable 241 pferdestarke and 320 Newton-meters of twist in the Mk4 Golf R32. That's 237 mechanical ponies and 236 pound ...

Not everyone will get the Volkswagen R32. And we aren’t saying that solely because availability of the all-wheel-drive, V6-powered Golf is limited to 5000 cars for the U.S. market. The boy-racer ...