Wild New Volkswagen Golf R To Get Audi RS3’s Signature Engine! , Autocar

To accummodate the new engine, suspension tweaks will be needed to support the added mass.

The Four-Cylinder Golf R 333 Alredy Benefits from 1.5deg of Negative Front Camber, STIFER REAR Subframe Mounts, BESPOKE SOFTWARE CALIBARE CALIBRARE for the adaptive Dampers and reeprofilad. However, the required changes may include a move to 2.0deg of negative front cameber, upgraded top mountains, reinforced knuckles and additional chassis bracing to increase torsional rigidity.

The rs3 also uses a stiffer front axle layout with bespoke Pivot Bearings to Sharpen Initial Turn-in. Similar hardware could find its way into the Golf R If Packaging Allows.

The addition of the five-cylinder engine is expected to brings a modest weight increase over the current Golf R’s 1545kg. Given that Near-Technically Identical RS3 Tips The Scales at Around 1570kg, the five-cylinder Golf R is likely gainly Gain Around 25kg.

To keep weight down, forged aluminum warmenau wheels are expected to feature. They’re Likely to be shod with the semi-Slick Bridgesstone Potenza Race Tyres Alredy used on the GOLF GTI Edition 50.

Bigger Brakes will be needed to cop with the extra power. For Reference, The Golf R 333 has 357mm Steel Discs, with the RS3 Using 380mm Carbon-Cauramics.