The features are promising – VW’s new flagship Golf will produce 329bhp from a turbocharged 2-litre unit, which ought to propel the car from 0 to 60 in around 4.5 seconds (0.7 seconds faster than the Mk7). The new Golf R will likewise be fitted with the equivalent Haldex four-wheel-drive framework as the older model, despite the fact that there are rumours about another ‘Drift Mode’, a capacity recently observed on the Mercedes A45 AMG and the (presently old) Focus RS.