The VW Golf R estate prototype we featured more than a month ago seems to not necessarily have shown the final production form of the car. That silver car had other wheels and a different looking exhaust, while this new black one comes with a quad-pipe setup at the back.

The uploader of the video posted below, YouTube user TouriClips, suggests the mods may be a sign of it receiving a more powerful engine, which it’d need to show off on the outside too, to justify the predictable premium it would carry over the basic R.

Whichever the case, we see nothing wrong with a blacked out VW estate with all-wheel drive, a turbocharged 2.0-liter engine with over 300 hp and huge wheels that look like they have a thin coating of rubber where the tires should be…

By Andrei Nedelea

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