{"id":98964,"date":"2025-08-27T06:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98964\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:01:07","slug":"wild-new-volkswagen-golf-r-to-use-audi-five-cylinder-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98964\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild new Volkswagen Golf R to use Audi five-cylinder engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To accommodate the new engine, suspension tweaks will be needed to support the added mass.<\/p>\n<p>The four-cylinder Golf R 333 already benefits from 1.5deg\u00a0of negative front camber, stiffer rear subframe mounts, bespoke software calibration for the adaptive dampers and reprofiled bushings. However, the\u00a0required changes may include a move to 2.0deg of negative front camber, upgraded top mounts, reinforced knuckles\u00a0and additional chassis bracing to increase torsional rigidity.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of the five-cylinder engine is expected to bring a modest weight increase over the current Golf R\u2019s 1545kg. Given that the near-technically identical RS3 tips the scales at around 1570kg, the five-cylinder Golf R is likely gain around 25kg.<\/p>\n<p>To keep weight down, forged aluminium Warmenau wheels are expected to feature. They\u2019re likely to be shod with the semi-slick Bridgestone Potenza Race tyres already used on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-news\/new-cars\/new-321bhp-edition-50-most-powerful-vw-golf-gti-yet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golf GTI Edition 50<\/a>. Wider tracks and recalibrated software are also anticipated to increase grip and control.<\/p>\n<p>Bigger brakes will be needed to cope with the extra power. For reference, the Golf R 333 has 357mm steel discs, with the RS3 using 380mm carbon-ceramics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Volkswagen Golf R five-cylinder on Nurburgring \u2013\u00a0side\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/vw-golf-r-5cyl-camo-side-tracking.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To accommodate the new engine, suspension tweaks will be needed to support the added mass. The four-cylinder Golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-98964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}