Meet Volkswagen’s 325bhp Golf racing concept

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VW Motorsport transforms Mk7 Golf into a wide, winged and very angry racing car Fancy the idea
of a 325bhp, stripped-out Golf racing car? Of course you do. Volkswagen is rather warm to the idea too, and has built this one-off concept for ‘evaluation’.

Not ‘evaluation’ for moon-based exploration - though it’d fit right in judging by those looks - but as a potential customer racing car for 2016, built and eligible for the Touring Car Racer International Series (TCR). In fact, as part of its competitive development – like AMG is doing with its gorgeous AMG GT3 – the Liqui Moly Team Engstler will run two of these monster Golfs at the Red Bull Ring this weekend.

So, taking the MQB-platformed, seventh-generation Golf as its base, VW Motorsport director Jost Capito – he of former Ford RS fame – and his team stripped out the insides and widened the chassis by 40cm over the production car.