Volkswagen can finally give the Golf R a larger engine

The Volkswagen group seems to save the best for the last time. The turbo-five-cylinder engine is approaching retirement, but not before the 2.5 TFSI finds its way in a hardcore wave. A new report from Coach claims that the inline-five of the Audi RS3 will feed a Range-Topping version of Wolfsburg’s Hot Hatch to coincide with the 25^one Birthday of the R-Uubmerk in 2027.

If all this sounds known, it is because there was already talk about giving the Golf R an extra cylinder. In 2020 we wrote about VW’s plan to press the “EA855” in the motor compartment, to get resistance from Ingolstadt. Since then things have changed because another VW group brand has already gained access to the larger engine; The CUPRA FORENTOR VZ5 received the Audi unit with almost 400 hp.

Our colleagues at Motor1 Germany have made spies of one Shearer looking Golf R-Prototype as well as one Mysterious RS3 Leping the Nürburgring. This can be test vehicles with an improved iteration of the five-pot. Audi Sports boss Sebastian Grams suggested a few years ago that engineers could extract more electricity without resorting to electrification.

The Donkervoort F22 already uses an improved version of this engine with almost 500 hp, although it is unlikely that VW or Audi would go that far. According to CoachThe Golf R with the larger powertrain would only win 55 pounds (25 kilograms) after the RS3 engine transplantation, despite the need for larger brakes and chassis reinforcements.

Although it would not be the first wave that was applied with a five -cylinder, a 400+ HP R would be the most powerful in the history of the best -selling car of VW. The Vleziger Variant is expected to come only with an updated seven-speed gearbox, after the fall of the manual gearbox after the facelift of the Golf R last year.

If a five -cylinder golf R is indeed on the road, VW can also borrow the mechanical coupling vectoral from his loving brother or sister. The use of the Koppelsplitter can be the chances of becoming the fastest production car of the company at the Green Hell, a title that is currently being held by the Golf GTI Edition 50, which has a coward period of 7: 46.13, can increase.

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It will probably not be cheap. The Golf R333, still powered by the well-known “EA888” 2.0-liter engine, was priced in Germany at no less than € 76,410, while even a regular Golf R starts from € 55,540. For comparison: the American counterpart seems to be a bargain at $ 48.325 before options are added.

As for those who would buy a five -cylinder golf r instead of the RS3, the answer is partly in body style. In the US, the RS3 is only offered as a sedan, so that hatchback fans turn over to VW. Elsewhere, the 2.5-liter variant would rely on those who are looking for the ultimate wave of performance of the combustion age. The MK9 has already been confirmed as a pure electric model, although the current generation could stay in production well into the following decade.

After his retirement of the TT RS and RS Q3, we think that the inline-five deserves a suitable cancellation. Sending it in a few hot shutters would be the right way to celebrate a engine type that the VW group has been using since the end of the 1970s. With the ban on gas motor from the European Union, it is now or never.