To understand the Mk4 Volkswagen Golf R32’s impact, it’s important to ... severely under-delivered when it came to the model everyone wanted: the GTI. Over time VW steadily improved the ...

It’s now the R32 that tops the range ... since the heady days of the ’80s. The mk3 GTI hadn’t set too many hearts racing, and the mk4 was as dull to drive as it was to look at.