The initial R32 was only available in America in 2004, and the car was produced in just two generations, with the second debuting in sync with the launch of the Mk5 Golf in 2005. However ...

This second-generation Golf R32 joins the freshly launched BMW 130i (and, by way of strict definition, the Porsche Cayman S and Aston Martin V8 Vantage) as a contender for the title of the hottest ...

Today, a Mk5 R32 can cost you as little as £5000 to buy, making it a tempting and sonorous performance car that still offers all of the practicality of the rest of the Golf hatch range.

But there is at least one Golf that deserves the title of a modern classic, and that's the Mk5-based R32. Back when it was new, this car was criticized for not delivering that much more punch than ...

Building on the success of its predecessor, the Golf Mk5 featured an evolutionary design ... (147 kW / 200 PS), but fans could also opt for R32 which had 247 hp (184 kW / 250 PS).

To understand the Mk4 Volkswagen Golf R32’s impact, it’s important to ... improved the Mk4 GTI (though we had to wait for the Mk5 Golf before the GTI fully returned to form) but like its ...

First up was the stock Mk5 GTI 2.0T. We'd obtained an ... This would be the real test. Could the R32 retain its crown at the top of the Golf food chain? In the city and the open road, there ...

Today, a Mk5 R32 can cost you as little as £5000 to buy, making it a tempting and sonorous performance car that still offers all of the practicality of the rest of the Golf hatch range.

To understand the Mk4 Volkswagen Golf R32’s impact, it’s important to ... improved the Mk4 GTI (though we had to wait for the Mk5 Golf before the GTI fully returned to form) but like its ...