Volkswagen Golf R Estate (2025) review: why doesn’t anyone buy one?

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Volkswagen Golf R Estate (2025) review: why doesn’t anyone buy one?
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Ted Welford is a senior staff writer on the Bauer automotive hub, working across CAR and our sister website Parkers. Specialising in road testing the latest cars, Ted is also quite the newshound, always investigating the latest industry topics and digging out new stories at any opportunity.

► Same performance as the hatch but so much more practicalityWhen did you last see a Volkswagen Golf R Estate on the road? I’m not talking about the Mk7 , but the Mk8 wagon. You just never see them.is still among the UK’s most popular cars, only five per cent of them sold are estates, and of those, only five per cent of Golf Estates sold are the R. So next to nobody appears to have bought one, and a quick browse of the classifieds reaffirms that.

The Golf R’s running costs will massively vary depending on how you drive it. If you behave like a typical Golf R yob, you’ll get fuel economy in the low 20s, but on a steady motorway run it’s possible to get into the high 30s and beyond.Few performance cars have as easily accessible performance as a Golf R. That extra pace wasn’t exactly needed but is welcome, with this fast wagon still having remarkable point-to-point pace, even in wet conditions.

But while Volkswagen has taken out the annoying touch-sensitive pads on the steering wheel of every other version of Golf, they remain on the R. Apparently it was too much work for VW to re-engineer the steering wheel for the dedicated ‘R’ mode. Shame.

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