Enhanced practicality and handling dynamism give the load-lugging Golf R Estate a slightly different character than the last. Read our 2022 review:
The interior is more convincing. Avoid the optional panoramic sunroof and there should be more than adequate leg- and headroom for adult passengers in both rows, and a really useful-sized boot that offers some under-floor stowage space, with a pretty expansive loadbay area above it that looks easily big enough to swallow bulky loads.
The driving position is mostly good, and the primary control layout likewise. Perceived cabin quality is fairly high, although some dashboard mouldings are harder and plainer than VW’s old standards for such things may lead you to hope they might be.
To drive, the Golf R is in large part the same multi-talented all-rounder that it used to be. Those stiffer suspension rates and 19in wheels do make for a little bit more roar and thump from the car’s ride than Golf R devotees may be used to, but not so much as to change the defining strength of this car: its adaptability.
The one thing that has changed, problematically for some I dare say, is the price. When VW revised the mk VII R Estate in 2019 , it reissued the car with a price some £6000 lower than the new model’s £43k asking price. Today, while you’re getting a Golf R wagon with slightly greater dynamic purpose than the last, you’re not getting one with any greater outright performance.
That’s quite the leap, isn’t it? Blame it on the establishment of proper premium automotive brands within the hot hatchback ranks, if you like; but what it means, for me at least, is that one of the most appealing real-world driver’s cars of recent times has become that little bit less of a go-to recommendation.
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