Volkswagen Begins Development On New Racing Golf

Jul 21, 2015

Volkswagen TCR-Golf

Volkswagen Motorsport has begun development on its first race car built from the seventh-generation Volkswagen Golf. The concept car packs 330-hp and is put together under TCR regulations in order to help the brand properly judge the potential customer racing program in 2016 and beyond. The cars will be tested for the rest of the season and two cars will race during the eighth round of the Touringcar Racer International Series (TCR) at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg.

“The newly created TCR category provides a promising platform for customer racing – on a national and international level. With exciting races, production-based technology, and reasonable costs, it offers a new outlook for private racing teams,” said Volkswagen Motorsport Director Jost Capito. “When developing the Golf-based concept car, we are able to fall back on the resources at Volkswagen. This reduces both development time and costs. We will also use the rest of the season to test the car under competitive conditions and evaluate a possible customer racing project from 2016.”