Volkswagen launched the eighth-generation Golf last year, and it came as something of a surprise that it would not be offered in America. The quintessential economical hatchback just hasn’t been selling well in the U.S. market as of late, logging just 5,644 sales in all of 2019. That’s a drop of 15 percent compared to last year, falling nearly to the same level as that of the far more expensive and decidedly niche Golf R. Still, the R isn’t exactly a volume seller with 4,223 finding homes in 2019, but it did mark a 22 percent increase over 2018.
Perhaps that’s why a report from Autocar suggests the Golf R is flying off dealership lots in the States. The news outlet quotes VW’s R boss Jost Capito as saying the Golf R averages just two days at dealerships before being sold “overpriced.” Presumably, that kind of excitement for the Golf R is why the new model will come to North America, just as the GTI will.
But is the Golf R really such…
