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A beautiful car in my opinion, I love estates. Wish Subaru made some nice estates for the European market, but if I'll have to change my car for something new in a couple of years, I'll probably buy something from Volkswagen (hope they keep making things like this Variant R or Arteon Shooting Brake R).
the narrowminded thinking in North America both by the buying public and the car companies is 'want a new car? how about another SUV or Crossover. Everything is the same type of car
Here in San Francisco bay area, I hardly see any new redesigned VW Golf nowadays. I think that's a good thing, cuz it doesn't has a handsome face any more. This wagon though, it's quite acceptable...
In the last few years of internal combustion engine we really are seeing some fantastic cars. It's too late now though. I get the idea we're getting the tech that was being held back for years.
@@amh313 Volkswagen should build such unrestricted models a longer time ago along with other cool forgotten models like 'XL1 Sport' few years back.. but back then they were so big that didn't bother to listen to people needs.. meanwhile the ev punch catch-up & kicks in strongly right now so hard that these cars do not make any sense no more exactly how BMW CEO don't listen most people who liked the previous BMW products to change the ugly beaver grills on it's all recent models, it's a miss-opportunity for brand since people will eventually loose interest and get other competitive brands that will offer more & more exciting & cooler alternatives..
I know alot of people don't like the MK8 but in estate form, this has to be the best looking. And finally. The R estate predecessors we're very, very bland.
Unlike with the last Golf R Variant (Estate as we call it in the UK) the new Mk8 Golf R Variant is actually certified and type approved for towing, which is unusual given that the VAG pretty much never puts its high performance vehicles through the towing homologation process. Which begs the question: why not?
Ughhh I wish we got this one in the states for sure. If the car had some of those jumper seats in the hatch area like Volvos used to come equipped with, now that would be great. You don't always need to seat 7 people, but if you do on occasion it is great to have that capability.
Thanks for the review, yes I love the form factor as I have a Seat Leon ST 2022 on order. But as I don't live near a racetrack I sadly can/have to do without any "R" in the name. Looks great fun though with 4WD and drift mode, and of course a lot cheaper than a real Porsche for the budget minded performance lover. Modern UI is garbage, something most have gone wrong with the education of engineers today or more probably the marketing guys has taken the veto.
I know right. It’s ridiculous that we love SUVs and trucks so damn much. I don’t know why anyone would own a sedan or even a small SUV when a wagon has more entire room and is so much more practical!
Great looking estate. Estates really aren't my thing though. Waiting on that new Lexus NX. Great work Thomas. Hope you get that NX before I put my money down.
Great review as always Thomas 😉 However I continue to find all that cheap glossy plastic in Mk8 offensive. To be fair VW isnt the only culprit in festooning their interiors with the dust and fingerprint attracting surfaces 🤷🏻♂️
Hope so it's not noise like on 7.5 R Like you are in some box with tone of dron,speak about speed 150+ on longer road trips,you must screaming in car to hear each other...
Thanks chaps, MOST interesting as this most likely my next vehicle (from current Golf R MK 7.5 hatch...not enough room). Confirmed all for me, fine estate (known as a station wagon down under 🇦🇺😁). My only misgivings... fellow anti capacitive button person and I think the dash in its entirety, looks cheap.
Looks are always subjective, for me the critical mistake made with the Mk8 is how they’ve dumbed down the quality. That was the hallmark of having a Golf but the lower quality plastics, no gas struts and the unloved infotainment are a big miss by VW and mean the competition like the new generation Astra have caught up.
This infotainement is just unacceptable from VW. And they of course have the same issue within the other brands from the group. I drive a Superb IV and the last update was catastrophic! Hopefully there has been a correction a week later, but they should test it before pushing it over the air...
Fun video great info and vehicle... such optimal Autogefuhl team Thomas and Jonas All capacitive buttons and bad infotainmentsystem got to go to the same dump to where dieselgate went
great review, can you make a compare video with the arteon r sb if possible? btw the acceleration 0-100 from golf 8 r variant is the same as the arteon r sb i think (4.9 s) 🤔
It must be my masochistic tendencies that leads me to watch reviews of the Golf R Estate and Arteon Shooting Brake that VW doesn't make available to SUV obsessed North Americans.
Tomas, I wonder if cars in germany are available to buy without waiting, and do german dealers increase prices for cars in 20-25 % ? And is additional equipment imposed?
Bleibt n Golf… vom Image iwie so auf dicke Hose aber aber für die Premium Marken hat’s nicht gereicht… und günstig ist das ganze ja auch nicht, aber jeder wie er mag. Sicherlich kein schlechtes Auto
I rented a brand new Golf a couple of months ago because my Peugeot 5008 GT Premium was delayed. The car kept misidentifying speed signs. For example, I was driving on a UK 70mph dual carriageway road and the car thought it was a 110mph road, even though the UK does not have them! My passenger photographed it. It happened three times. It also identified a 30 mph road next to the 70mph road I was on and braked hard on cruise. Fortunately, my Peugeot does not make these mistakes on the same roads. The Golf was good at adjusting the speed for bends for example, apart from scary me other times. There is a bug in their adaptive cruise control that needs addressing.
@@gunterification lol it is still a dodgy bug they need to address. These things need to be addressed before being sold. Perhaps VW are too busy finding other ways to cheat about emissions to concentrate on software bugs.
Wenn das Heck nicht so rundlich wäre sondern flacher abfallen würde wäre er perfekt... eventuell hätte der Performance Spoiler vom hatchback geholfen. Akras wären halt auch cool aber hab’s beim Vorgänger Variante ja auch nicht Endlich aber mal ein Video :) Dankeschön
Please bring more EV to the channel. A lot of people i know have stopped paying any attention to fossil cars and this perception is now even worse after having fuel crisis here in UK.
There is no warning reflector all four door!That is really important about night drive safety…what a shame for cost cutting…By the way, new audi a3 has it all door!!!
Very beautiful car, but buying a sports car in 2021 that isn’t electric is just plain stupidity. Specially with all VWs and Audis stupid expensive optionals.
There will always be lots of people who love driving and don't want an electric toy car. If it wasn't for all the new taxes and regulations from governments/EU people would never buy electric.
The front DLR design is super ugly IMO. Either make it all the way as a light bar or just keep it in the headlight space. This gives me the new Renault design vibes which I really don't like. Like this the two LED strips on the grille look like an afterthought someone slapped on there right before releasing the car.
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00:00 Launch Control and Drift Mode
00:18 2022 Golf 8 R Variant styling and technology
01:16 Length, wheelbase and torque split
02:15 About the exhaust
02:34 Engine 320 hp
03:02 Interior
03:58 Sport seats
04:38 Cockpit overview
05:11 Driving Modes R, Nürburgring and Drift
06:10 More interior details
06:34 Infotainment
07:12 Digital instruments and HUD
08:06 Rear seating with legroom
10:09 Trunk / boot
11:08 Exhaust note sound static
11:23 Racetrack driving Bilster Berg
19:25 Drift mode drifting special
20:27 Countryside / road driving
#VWGolf #Volkswagen
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you probably have the most detailed and informative reviews ive seen on youtube. thanks
I'd have to say Savagegeese and Jason Cammisa are a step above in some regards.
Interior is terrible
Wonder what u drive 🤔
This is much better looking than the hatchback
As always a great review the best UA-cam channel, Great job Thomas watching from Portugal 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
De longe o melhor canal de testes drive e narrativa automovel europeu, que conheço, sobretudo quando apresentado pelo Thomas!
A beautiful car in my opinion, I love estates. Wish Subaru made some nice estates for the European market, but if I'll have to change my car for something new in a couple of years, I'll probably buy something from Volkswagen (hope they keep making things like this Variant R or Arteon Shooting Brake R).
for that price the interior is just a shame
Uggg I would kill to have this available in the US...
No doubt man, here in Canada!
VWoA and AoA are both braindead when it comes to determining what to bring to the US.
the narrowminded thinking in North America both by the buying public and the car companies is 'want a new car? how about another SUV or Crossover. Everything is the same type of car
I said the same thing including the uggggh at the beginning haha
Here in San Francisco bay area, I hardly see any new redesigned VW Golf nowadays. I think that's a good thing, cuz it doesn't has a handsome face any more. This wagon though, it's quite acceptable...
In the last few years of internal combustion engine we really are seeing some fantastic cars. It's too late now though. I get the idea we're getting the tech that was being held back for years.
It does feel that way, doesn't it?
This is the end of time for cars as we know it. Everything from here on is fake.
I agree. I would get this if there wouldn't be all the things happening with electric cars and hybrids.:D A bit sad, but that's how it is.
@@amh313 Volkswagen should build such unrestricted models a longer time ago along with other cool forgotten models like 'XL1 Sport' few years back.. but back then they were so big that didn't bother to listen to people needs.. meanwhile the ev punch catch-up & kicks in strongly right now so hard that these cars do not make any sense no more exactly how BMW CEO don't listen most people who liked the previous BMW products to change the ugly beaver grills on it's all recent models, it's a miss-opportunity for brand since people will eventually loose interest and get other competitive brands that will offer more & more exciting & cooler alternatives..
It was awesome. Funny, informative, entertaining!! Great show!
Highly appreciated! Please recommend our channel 😎
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Thomas, don't give vw a pass like that...climate and volume controls using sliders which don't illuminate at night..?🤔🤷♂️🤷♂️
I know alot of people don't like the MK8 but in estate form, this has to be the best looking. And finally. The R estate predecessors we're very, very bland.
I agree - i think the new styling works on the wagon for some reason
12:14 My dog when he hears something briefly outside. 😂
ahahaha
Im reading this as my dog literally just did this hahaha
I so envy you Germans.
We Brazilian can't buy it, because its not available.
#ihatesuvs
Greetings from Brazil
You can buy it in Portugal for about 60 000 Euros, more or less and then you envoy it to Brazil!
Golf 8 in general is ugly. The last beautiful golf was the mk7-7,5
Gloriously I had a Golf R Mk 7.5 MY 2018 and don´t pretend change it, at least for the MK 8, never! Thank you Thomas for another superb video!
Unlike with the last Golf R Variant (Estate as we call it in the UK) the new Mk8 Golf R Variant is actually certified and type approved for towing, which is unusual given that the VAG pretty much never puts its high performance vehicles through the towing homologation process.
Which begs the question: why not?
So, what's the towing spec?
Ughhh I wish we got this one in the states for sure. If the car had some of those jumper seats in the hatch area like Volvos used to come equipped with, now that would be great. You don't always need to seat 7 people, but if you do on occasion it is great to have that capability.
No one: ....
VW: Would you like to try and control audio, settings, and HVAC from a touchscreen?
Thanks for the review, yes I love the form factor as I have a Seat Leon ST 2022 on order. But as I don't live near a racetrack I sadly can/have to do without any "R" in the name. Looks great fun though with 4WD and drift mode, and of course a lot cheaper than a real Porsche for the budget minded performance lover. Modern UI is garbage, something most have gone wrong with the education of engineers today or more probably the marketing guys has taken the veto.
Interior looks cheap especially at a cost of £41000.
In Portugal with a medium equipment it costs more or less 57/58 000 Euros, with full extras it costs surely 60 000 Euros or plus!!!
@@mariapires7170 Yes I call German cars, option cars. Very little comes standard.
VW, please bring this to the USA!
I know right. It’s ridiculous that we love SUVs and trucks so damn much. I don’t know why anyone would own a sedan or even a small SUV when a wagon has more entire room and is so much more practical!
Great looking estate. Estates really aren't my thing though. Waiting on that new Lexus NX. Great work Thomas. Hope you get that NX before I put my money down.
Yeah, hoping Thomas get his hands on one since other motoring journalists are going to an event pretty soon.
@@koichi.k1161 I've been asking the same thing. An update on the UX would also be useful.
I ll try my best!
@@autogefuehl Thank you, appreciate it Thomas.
@@autogefuehl Thanks Thomas, can't wait! 🔥
Awesome review 🎯
for the drifting purposes, you better drift with the Variant or thr Hatchback version and why? Please some professional explanations
Great review as always Thomas 😉 However I continue to find all that cheap glossy plastic in Mk8 offensive. To be fair VW isnt the only culprit in festooning their interiors with the dust and fingerprint attracting surfaces 🤷🏻♂️
Hope so it's not noise like on 7.5 R
Like you are in some box with tone of dron,speak about speed 150+ on longer road trips,you must screaming in car to hear each other...
Thanks chaps, MOST interesting as this most likely my next vehicle (from current Golf R MK 7.5 hatch...not enough room). Confirmed all for me, fine estate (known as a station wagon down under 🇦🇺😁). My only misgivings... fellow anti capacitive button person and I think the dash in its entirety, looks cheap.
The 7.5 has a much nicer interior
@@dragospahontu yes, I do agree with that. 👍
Graeme have you ordered one yet? What were your thoughts about Aussie delivered wagons having the petrol particulate filter, and the hatch not?
Hey Thomas, any chance you're getting an updated Lexus UX to show us?
Sadly we will never get that in Canada ... Thanks @vw and @vwcanada... Lucky Europeans you get all the nice wagons.
But we don’t have the manual Gera box… not even in Germany :(
Everytime I see this guy’s thumbnail I’m expecting a “Thizzzzzzz iz zee newe...”.
this car is beautiful and im getting one next week
Looks are always subjective, for me the critical mistake made with the Mk8 is how they’ve dumbed down the quality. That was the hallmark of having a Golf but the lower quality plastics, no gas struts and the unloved infotainment are a big miss by VW and mean the competition like the new generation Astra have caught up.
I wish you could get this in Canada. I would have bought this over the regular r in a heart beat
This infotainement is just unacceptable from VW. And they of course have the same issue within the other brands from the group. I drive a Superb IV and the last update was catastrophic! Hopefully there has been a correction a week later, but they should test it before pushing it over the air...
This car and all vw R cars will sell more in North America than Europe
Can someone tell my why we can't have this ?
Crazy how we don’t get this in the USA…. This is much much better than the hatchback in my honest opinion…. We also need the Tiguan Golf R
Fun video great info and vehicle... such optimal Autogefuhl team Thomas and Jonas
All capacitive buttons and bad infotainmentsystem got to go to the same dump to where dieselgate went
Great review! Don't forget that the boot floor can be lowered increasing storage space... 👍🏻
Fast Family Delivery Car 👍😈
Um… is it just me or is the price not mentioned?
Any idea how much is it and prices for various extras/ toys?
I love wagon. That looks sweet.
Cries in US…
you'll get the golf 8 r with a manual. don't complain
great review, can you make a compare video with the arteon r sb if possible? btw the acceleration 0-100 from golf 8 r variant is the same as the arteon r sb i think (4.9 s) 🤔
It must be my masochistic tendencies that leads me to watch reviews of the Golf R Estate and Arteon Shooting Brake that VW doesn't make available to SUV obsessed North Americans.
A tiguan is even shorter, yet has much more room in the rear.
They should call this one the LONG GOLF R.
they've got the design right on this. and i can sleep in it if my head is at the rear and my feet are between the front seats!
On my screen this variant doesn't look the part. What's your take Thomas?
Come on VW!
Do we have to put on, are own tsi logo on the engine cover?..lol
Nice hood strut fail
I love my '15, mk7 Sportwagon.
Amazing car, amazing presenter
What a amazing car
Tomas, I wonder if cars in germany are available to buy without waiting, and do german dealers increase prices for cars in 20-25 % ? And is additional equipment imposed?
No, waiting times are insane here as well. Especially for EV and PHEV, it can be over 6 months, sometimes up to a year.
Knowing Germans, the designer of the climate button will probably suicide due to shame
Nice review, nicer wrist watch. What brand and model is it?
Grüße 🖖🏻
The beast
Is this the same size as the shooting brake?
why no one test the ride quality of the back seats while driving
There is a part missing from the front bumper
Well done Thomas!
The Mk7 made me a VW fanboy. I drive a 7,5 Alltrack and boy, do I want the R as well.
My 1997 Legnum VR4 had AYC on the rear diff...
My 2010 insignia 2.0t 4x4 had haldex torque vectoring on the rear diff...
Not groundbreaking... :-P
Please review the Audi a6 55 tfsi e avant PHEV.
I stick to mine GR7 estate. Dont like this shape...
TDI Rulz ! 🙈
I always love to hear about the Autogefuhl fake exhaust police - makes me smile, every time... (Watching From Australia....)
ugh. Hate listening to the racetrack part, because of the fake engine sound. So glad I disabled that on my Golf R
Next up: Thomas blasting the new Golf R Variant on the Nordschleife.
I'd like to see this in comparison with the CLA45S shooting brake
The Golf's interior dashboard is trying too hard to look cool.
The Seat Leon's dashboard is laid out more logically and better designed
How often did you accidentally switch on the steering wheel heating on the Ring? 😁
Normal wagon had terrible turn diameter. I suppose this one has to be as bad.
Bleibt n Golf… vom Image iwie so auf dicke Hose aber aber für die Premium Marken hat’s nicht gereicht… und günstig ist das ganze ja auch nicht, aber jeder wie er mag. Sicherlich kein schlechtes Auto
I‘d prefer German instead of Denglish tbh
OMG that seat fabric is just horrendous!
I rented a brand new Golf a couple of months ago because my Peugeot 5008 GT Premium was delayed. The car kept misidentifying speed signs. For example, I was driving on a UK 70mph dual carriageway road and the car thought it was a 110mph road, even though the UK does not have them! My passenger photographed it. It happened three times. It also identified a 30 mph road next to the 70mph road I was on and braked hard on cruise. Fortunately, my Peugeot does not make these mistakes on the same roads. The Golf was good at adjusting the speed for bends for example, apart from scary me other times. There is a bug in their adaptive cruise control that needs addressing.
that was a software issue switching mph to kph
@@gunterification lol it is still a dodgy bug they need to address. These things need to be addressed before being sold. Perhaps VW are too busy finding other ways to cheat about emissions to concentrate on software bugs.
Great vid as always.
cheers ! =)
When are these going on sale in the UK?
Wenn das Heck nicht so rundlich wäre sondern flacher abfallen würde wäre er perfekt... eventuell hätte der Performance Spoiler vom hatchback geholfen. Akras wären halt auch cool aber hab’s beim Vorgänger Variante ja auch nicht
Endlich aber mal ein Video :) Dankeschön
It is not as nice and Bruno de Silva design
So expensive in Aus
19:47 What. The. Hell? 😂
Variant? In what control is it called this?
Germany, the original name. Golf R Estate in the UK.
For God sake!!!
@@mariapires7170 yes did you shout me?
@@autogefuehl but that's a silly name. Variant could mean anything its of no descriptive use at all. May aswell call it the golf golf.
Thank you!
It sounds great
The new golf 8 is amazing! The black on everything looks pretty and it is beautiful with white. Amazing review like always! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Who has got enough money or the salary to buy this car? In Cyprus, the member of the European Union, we don’t !!!
Please bring more EV to the channel. A lot of people i know have stopped paying any attention to fossil cars and this perception is now even worse after having fuel crisis here in UK.
Whow much oil you need per 100km 🤣 #dieselgate
There is no warning reflector all four door!That is really important about night drive safety…what a shame for cost cutting…By the way, new audi a3 has it all door!!!
Only sport car that looks good in white is Honda Civic type R
🤮
Very beautiful car, but buying a sports car in 2021 that isn’t electric is just plain stupidity. Specially with all VWs and Audis stupid expensive optionals.
There will always be lots of people who love driving and don't want an electric toy car. If it wasn't for all the new taxes and regulations from governments/EU people would never buy electric.
my ears!!! terrible engine sound ...
I'll Stick to Hyundai
The front DLR design is super ugly IMO. Either make it all the way as a light bar or just keep it in the headlight space. This gives me the new Renault design vibes which I really don't like. Like this the two LED strips on the grille look like an afterthought someone slapped on there right before releasing the car.