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Old 01-27-2010, 6:34 PM   #1
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ELLMAU, Austria — During a related Volkswagen drive event here in the Austrian Alps, VW spokespeople from Wolfsburg offered up a tantalizing bit of news: The company will establish its own new performance division, R GmbH. The official announcement will be made at the 2010 Geneva Auto Show in March.

As an executive told Inside Line: "BMW has its M, Mercedes has AMG, and our sibling Audi has Quattro. This new R division will be our Quattro."

The new R GmbH is an expanded version of the Europe-market VW Individual, an entity that offers a vast catalogue of sporty personalization items for customers' standard VW cars. For example, the CC R-Line was recently announced and was displayed at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show as a formal set offering within the CC lineup.

So far, North America has seen bits and pieces of Individual division R-Line offerings through the VW GearStore or in a few rare special editions. Although the company was gauging interest by showing the CC R-Line at Detroit, it has not said whether it will introduce it in the U.S. market.

The R division of the Wolfsburg factory is to begin creating from-the-ground-up R versions of every appropriate model in the VW showroom, as recently seen on the 266-horsepower Golf R with 4Motion and the 261-hp Scirocco R. The Golf R, at least, is rumored to be heading to North America in early 2011
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Old 01-27-2010, 6:48 PM   #2
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the Golf R/R20/whatchamacallit is one of the hottest cars ever. I really hope to be in one in a few years.
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That is pretty cool news.
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Golf R looks like sex. What about that new coupe concept turn into a jetta Coupe R? Yum yum yum.
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If VW actually brings the Golf R20 here, I'll hold out for it.
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Can't wait to see them in person Golf R sounds like it's gonna be one hot hatch!
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The Golf R was in Montreal for their Auto Show so I'm hoping to start seeing it here (Chicago or NYIAS?).

Rumors on VWVortex are 270hp, AWD, 6MT or DSG, 2 or 4 doors.

And the R is lighter than the R32 with 20hp more.
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same here. i love VW's
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same here. i love VW's
Should be okay for the first 3 years, you got warranty. Then again I wouldn't want to pay $30K for a brand new one.
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Review: Edmunds drives the 2012 Golf R ... and humps its leg

Very positive review of the Golf R and speculation it'll start at $32,500.
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^^ Nice....I bet it comes in just a bit above the R32 prices.....but not by much.
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^^ Nice....I bet it comes in just a bit above the R32 prices.....but not by much.
Can I hold out long enough ... Aaaggh!
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excellent news...

for your viewing pleasure...
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Did I mention how much I love this Golf R?
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Did I mention how much I love this Golf R?
They say they're going to start with 3000 a year. I think they'll sell every single one of them.
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excellent news...

for your viewing pleasure...
thats dope.
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excellent news...

for your viewing pleasure...
I'm surprised nobody ever posted the CC R Line in the Passat CC thread.

It's debut was quite a while ago.

...and it's
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As an executive told Inside Line: "BMW has its M, Mercedes has AMG, and our sibling Audi has Quattro. This new R division will be our Quattro."
Well, I guess this executive really doesn't know what he was talking about. Quattro to Audi is like x-drive to BMW, 4matic to Mercedes. He should've said Audi has S/RS.
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Well, I guess this executive really doesn't know what he was talking about. Quattro to Audi is like x-drive to BMW, 4matic to Mercedes. He should've said Audi has S/RS.
You are wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattro_GmbH
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The AWD system is quattro with a lower-case Q. The Quattro they're talking about made the rally-spec Quattro back in the 80s.
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