Yannis

An anonymous tipster clued us in to the long-rumored Volkswagen Golf R-37, with a cameraphone shot of a right-hand drive model said to be production ready.

According to the VW guy that showed this to me this is a full production car, not a demo or tuner model; it has AWD, a sick factory wing thing on the back, carbon fiber on all the scoops (rears are functional brake coolers!), HUGE brakes front-and-rear, fully race-ready seats and best of all a 3.7L version of the V6 currently found in the new Jetta (which is rated at 280+ hp). No official comment on horsepower figures, but the tech’s best guess was “over 300”… Doh. (BTW, this is apparently factory paint, styling & bodykit as well).

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Giannis

No, i don't think that a stock car (even in the way it is described above) can look like this. Look at the hoo, the spoiler and the other staff. This is no way the final product. This must be made by a crazy VW fun, wannabe street racer....

Carbon

That thing is a joke; VW would never make something that looked like that out of the factory. That pic is probably of just some tuned up Golf they decided to stick onto the article.

martinbo

Christmas fever seems to have gotten to Yannis... heh heh.

This is bs.

Yannis

Sorry mate i can only post what's out there in the web.

BTW it's R36 and not R37. As for the car the flames and lines might be some kind of camo.

warot

Yannis, camo is supposed to hide features of the car. This doesn't hide anything. For some reason, minus the "camo", I don't think that this car looks all that bad. Really tuned looking, but conservative enough to get my vote.
Is the R36 confirmed? Because if it isn't it makes perfect sense to me. BMW might be upgrading the 1er line with a more powerful engine. Only makes sense to keep up with the competition.

Carbon

Did you guys see the latest Top Gear? The R32 went up against the 130i M sport w/e and beat it in just about every category besides maybe driving excitement.

martinbo

Yes.

Astonishingly this is a trend that extends across various publications, EVO saying the same thing (130i had better driver involvement) despite the R32 being a full second quicker around the Bedford Autodrome.

I'm amazed (and somewhat miffed) but it really does seem like that new R32 is just fantastic. Hmph, the old one was good but who would've thought that the latest incarnation would trounce the on-paper hot hatch king?

You sure as hell never can tell.

Snake Vargas

What. The. Heck.

Well, I'm not waiting to see that paint scheme come out in VW press kit pictures. Nevertheless, it should be a decent car, judging by magazine reviews as you guys mention. I wonder if it will make the R32 obsolete?

Carbon

Whenever I heard about the still unconfirmed R36, people mentioned it being only for the North American market. Maybe this isn't true, but this is what I've always heard when rumors arise concerning this car. People said that we wouldn't get an R32 at all, we'd only get an R36.