Driving every Golf R! From the original VR6 to the Golf 8 R (Video)

Ciro De Siena

17 Nov 2022

It all began with the Vurra, the South African term of endearment for the first 6-cylinder Golf, almost 3 decades ago. Join Ciro De Siena as we assemble and drive every Golf R ever sold in South Africa.

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With a lot of help from the good people at Volkswagen South Africa, we networked with a series of Golf owners to put together a dream shoot, featuring every Golf R sold in South Africa.

Missing here is the Golf MkIV R, which was never sold in South Africa, but drove the Golf MkIII, MkV, MkVI, Mk7 and Mk8 R all together on the Aldo Scribante circuit in Gqeberha earlier this year when we filmed our full review on the Golf 8 R, and performed a hot lap shootout against the Toyota GR Yaris.

Join our video journalist Ciro De Siena as he drives every Golf R back-to-back, and tries to get under the skin of what makes the Golf R so loved and respected across the globe.

Have you read and watched our review of the latest Volkswagen Golf 8 R? Click here

Ciro De Siena

Ciro De Siena

Ciro built his first car website back in his university days and despite denting his first ever test car, it launched his career. He's still at this car journalism gig 16 years later and over the years has hosted live TV segments on national television and hosts a regular car segment on CapeTalk radio. He is most at his happiest however producing content for the Cars.co.za Youtube channel.

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