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Volkswagen seems like it is not going to let Audi’s 2015 RS3 fight the Mercedes A45 AMG and BMW M135i on its own, with the carmaker introducing a 400 PS (395 hp) Golf R concept at the 2014 Beijing Motor Show. And yes, as it turns out, this piece of hot hatch madness is heading for production.
Head of Volkswagen research and development, Heinz-Jakob Neusser has confirmed to Car and Driver that the Golf R 400 is set to become an actual car. Nonetheless, there are still certain details to be set straight. For instance, this could be a limited edition and we can’t tell whether it will also be offered in the US or not.
Under the hood, we find VW’s EA888 four-cylinder engine that’s been pushed to deliver 400 PS. The starting point was the current 290 hp Golf R engine, but the internals have been upgraded in order to support the extra boost required for the new output.
The engineering effort would be too great for VW to keep the engine all to itself, which means that this could also find its way under the hood of future Audi models. Audi currently has an engine playing in that power league, the turbocharged in-line five used on models such as the TT RS. The five-banger isn’t expected to retire though. Instead, Audi should seriously revise it to offer extra juice. Of course, the story is more complicate than that, since the carmaker also has a supercharged 3.0-liter V6 in the 300 hp+ area.
PS: in a rather puzzling manner, the press released below talks about a 0 to 62 mph (100 km/h) time of 3.9 seconds. Forget the fact that the time is dangerously close to that of an Audi R8 V10, VW mentions this is achieved with the help of a DSG dual-clutch automatic and the adjacent photos show a manual transmission. More info to come, we suppose...
Via: Car and Driver
Under the hood, we find VW’s EA888 four-cylinder engine that’s been pushed to deliver 400 PS. The starting point was the current 290 hp Golf R engine, but the internals have been upgraded in order to support the extra boost required for the new output.
The engineering effort would be too great for VW to keep the engine all to itself, which means that this could also find its way under the hood of future Audi models. Audi currently has an engine playing in that power league, the turbocharged in-line five used on models such as the TT RS. The five-banger isn’t expected to retire though. Instead, Audi should seriously revise it to offer extra juice. Of course, the story is more complicate than that, since the carmaker also has a supercharged 3.0-liter V6 in the 300 hp+ area.
PS: in a rather puzzling manner, the press released below talks about a 0 to 62 mph (100 km/h) time of 3.9 seconds. Forget the fact that the time is dangerously close to that of an Audi R8 V10, VW mentions this is achieved with the help of a DSG dual-clutch automatic and the adjacent photos show a manual transmission. More info to come, we suppose...
Via: Car and Driver
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