Sorry, as much as the Golf R may be a good car, capable, quick, well built, good value for money etc, it’s image ruined it for me.
It is today’s version of the Saxo VTS.
Every time I see one on the roads all I think of it is, it’s a £250pm lease car. Very strange marketing from VW as the TDI variants of the Mk7/7.5 are more expensive on a monthly basis.
The cheap lease deals opened them up to owners at the cheaper end of the market, i.e the Barry Boy brigade. You see lots of them in council estates driven badly by chavs. Image totally ruined.
RS3 is in a different class, owned by a different type of owner. Instead of £250pm, the RS3 is going to cost someone £500pm+, this then limits the cars to a better audience.
Snobby view but is the truth. Golf R’s as good as they may be are 10 a penny, everyone has them, there’s no uniqueness. RS3’s are a much rarer sight and aren’t being driven by 20yr old Launch control outside schools nobs (in the main anyway)