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New Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR 2019 review
The Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR manages to take all of the things we love about the regular GTI Performance and lift them to the next level. While it might not quite feel as playful as the Honda Civic Type R - nor quite as fast - it’s a hugely capable machine that can thrill on road or track. Some might miss the lack of a manual gearbox, but it does make it easier to live with every day. Either way, this is absolutely the best Golf GTI you can buy right now.
Motorsport tie-ins are commonplace in the performance car world. Some have worked better than others: the brilliant Mitsubishi Evo VI Makinen Edition is revered by enthusiasts in a way that a Fiat Seicento with Michael Schumacher’s name scrawled along its sides, to be blunt, is not.
Volkswagen is the latest brand to get in on the act with the GTI TCR. Those three letters, new to a VW road car, stand for Touring Car Racing - a motorsport series in which the Golf GTI has scooped numerous driver and team titles across a range of national and international championships.
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They’re also attached to a car that can be considered a final flourish for the Mk7.5 Golf GTI before the new eighth-generation version appears later this year. So where does the TCR rank among the road racing specials, Golf GTIs and - perhaps most importantly - its current rivals?
New Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR 2019 review
The Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR manages to take all of the things we love about the regular GTI Performance and lift them to the next level. While it might not quite feel as playful as the Honda Civic Type R - nor quite as fast - it’s a hugely capable machine that can thrill on road or track. Some might miss the lack of a manual gearbox, but it does make it easier to live with every day. Either way, this is absolutely the best Golf GTI you can buy right now.
Motorsport tie-ins are commonplace in the performance car world. Some have worked better than others: the brilliant Mitsubishi Evo VI Makinen Edition is revered by enthusiasts in a way that a Fiat Seicento with Michael Schumacher’s name scrawled along its sides, to be blunt, is not.
Volkswagen is the latest brand to get in on the act with the GTI TCR. Those three letters, new to a VW road car, stand for Touring Car Racing - a motorsport series in which the Golf GTI has scooped numerous driver and team titles across a range of national and international championships.
• Best hot hatchbacks on sale
They’re also attached to a car that can be considered a final flourish for the Mk7.5 Golf GTI before the new eighth-generation version appears later this year. So where does the TCR rank among the road racing specials, Golf GTIs and - perhaps most importantly - its current rivals?
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