All-new VW Golf 8 R FULL REVIEW - the ultimate 2021 Golf with 320 hp and torque vectoring
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- This is our in-depth review of the 2021 VW Golf R. We're taking a look at Exterior, Interior and the driving experience.
00:00 Intro
01:11 Exterior
04:00 Engine
05:12 Interior
07:09 Infotainment system
13:02 Back seat
14:08 Trunk
14:56 Driving & 30-XX acceleration
23:16 Agile driving
32:00 Conclusion
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Warum keine Hintergrundmusik?
it looks lika rover MG :))
instablaster.
I want 3 things:
1: This car.
2: For VW to fix the infotainment
3: Those German highways
Then you have to move to germany my friend
@@voltag3102 Driving in Germany, then ya come back here and we are 3rd world roads, Driving in Germany is what driving is supposed to BE!! Only got to 123 MPH in the unlimited in Audi A6 S line TDI years ago, FUN, wanted 155MPH, but too much traffic, I'm a tourist! Doing 100 in center lane, get PASSED, by Golf and a Porsche!!! all LEGAL, we suck in the U.S., horrible roads, that wipe out tires and wheels, no cars with shit falling off, flapping fenders like in the U.S., pride of ownership, what a concept! CLEAN roads, no garbage blowing around, gas stations are SPOTLESS, Jersey TPK is crap, with cesspool rest stops.
@@voltag3102 Am I welcome to move there?
@@Alexandru-T. everyone is welcome 🙏🏻
@Moto Guzzi Yes it is thank you
I haven't seen Thomas having that much fun in a long time 😃
He seemed to have even more fun in the GR Yaris 🤔
@@GRfourfun I agree............
@@richardsealey3626 both are awesome car. I am a big VW fan but honestly I'd buy the Yaris as a new car and the R as a second hand 1yr old car (better price)
Thanks Thomas...and Jonas🎙️📷 Another great test rewiev...great sounds>Harman/Kardon+Akrapović😯❤️🎵🎶🎼merry Christmas and a happy, much more better year than those.. Greetings from Hrvatska.
Will it be also an Golf 8Rkombi version?! I"m sure the Autogefuel team will test it... 🤓😎
I love Tomas' reaction to the exhausts _pops_ and _crackles_ more than the _pops_ and _crackles_ themselves! Great to see you having such fun, Tomas! ✌️😎👌
Best sounding OPF car
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@tuhafenigeorgedasilvahishi2958 what u lagging at name
@@tuhafenigeorgedasilvahishi2958 * Laughing
@@hiiiofficial8306 His reaction got me cracking up man😂😂😂😂
Thomas, the only car reviewer I know that does a door closing sound comparison :)) Good job as always.
Have to agree it didn’t sound that great for a Golf. Maybe the door was out of alignment or the hinges need adjusting.
@@mikewestwood567 maybe the door is lighter then on the normal golfs
Redline Reviews has always done a door closing sound rating :D
@@sv_cheats1970 Bodyshells are all the same no matter which Golf 8 model it is.........
@@richardsealey3626 probably but think about it, its the top of the range performance oriented model. You need to remember that VW did crap like this even back in the 90s (as in G60 shells and pssat B3 shells having the Syncro floorpan even if not specced with Syncro running gear). Thats why G60 shells were banned from cup GTI racing since they were considerably stiffer then the normal GTI counterpart.
Your English is EXCELLENT with a bonus very cool German accent. I can understand your vocals better than way too many of my own countrymen. You choose your commentary so carefully I am rarely left with a single unresolved question, and your delivery is always calm, cool, and collected. Your thoroughness deserves special mention. You know what enthusiastic drivers want to know and you can’t possibly suffer a single disappointed viewer. Thank you for such great automotive journalism and video production.
i'm happy that "drift mode" isn't copryrighted by a particular manufacturer. They really had to work to get a fwd biased haldex to drift.
great work from the editor on the door closing sound comparison 10/10
Even if we can’t fully appreciate the pops and bangs, the expression on your face Thomas tells us all we need to know and it is priceless! 🤣
Just loose k 7.5 kg weight ,fart,and save € 7 kg.
Great review. Nicely done. And thanks so much for doing it in English. We really appreciate that.
German would limit the views big-time.
A lot of fun on your side but a responsabile one.😀
Excellent review for this beginning of the weekend.
Cheers 👋
Fantastic detailed review! Love the upgraded exhaust!
This guy is the best car reviewer ever. Very informative and he has a pleasant soothing nature about him and a voice that is clear and understandable. You will learn everything you need to know and then some. Keep up the great work and thank you.
Thanks Gary!! ☺️
Brilliant Thomas ! Great car, great fun. Thanks
always great content! cheers all the way from Texas!
Thanks for sharing! Very nice and in-depth review. Much appreciated.
Finally a review from Autogefühl! Thank you!
Finally the R appears to be the sweet spot in the Golf line up!
Also the top spot lol
@Phil Fair enough
Best vehicle review I’ve seen, thank you!
Thanks so much for this review! Many channels don't do a thorough and detailed review of all aspects of the car. So big thank you for explaining and demonstrating everything!
🙏👌
As usual one of the best review on the net ! 😉😇
THE best.......
Great review as always and awesome all around car!! Greetings ftom Greece
As soon as Thomas started the engine, he was smiling some 96% of driving time 🤣
Great review! I'm loving the new R!
Looks like a truly amazing car, loving the design, exhaust pops and those gear shifts are crazy fast!
Sad for people that get scarred becouse of that sound...and Animals too....people are thinking only about our self
Great review! Love this Golf!!!
Best review out there! Excellent information throughout.
You gotta love this guy. My favorite car channel.
The first Golf I've really liked for a very long time!! Very nice!!
Perfect review!
Thank you, I enjoyed the review very much
Active driving lounge- Love it!!
This was a fantastic review Thomas 👍🏻 I'm so excited for this car. Looks like a lot more fun than the previous Golf R. Although I currently own a GTI TCR (which I love), I cannot wait to test drive one of these when they arrive in the UK 🇬🇧
They’re on Autotrader.
Semi-professional racing driver Tomas in full length. Let's go!
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Die Video machen einfach Spaß! Danke für die tollen Reviews!
schön dass du dabei bist!
Feels like a major interior downgrade. Touch controls make no mistake are just a cost saving measure. They are being sold as a "premium" feature but it is anything but. Just like alcantara.
I must say, the more i see it, the more i like it. Especially the front side. If there wouldnt be the bad usability with the Infotainment and the touch buttons, it would be a perfect hot hatch. Thanks for the great review 👍👍
Nice review 🙂👍
Great review, and I especially enjoyed full door closing comparisons, also in full screen and HD
Man.. what a car looks very fun to drive.. def on my wishlist 😁
I’m liking this new golf
In Canada we are getting only the Performance Pack so it’s $51K CDN for the DSG version (€34K). It’s a no-brainer at that price point for a daily driver with this much potential
Fantastic review as always, thank you.
My Golf R 2019 Stick of course is GREAT, this is getting better!
Nice review. Thanks.
Really superb review. Just the facts. Great.
So much cost cutting 😭
That engine cover is so sad compared to the outgoing Mk7 style.
The whole car is sad
@@ivanjovanovic362 Meh, not really. I have a Mk7.5 GTI myself and I've been contemplating going to the MK8 Golf R once it's here in the US. Overall, the car should perform better and handle better. I also quite like the new interior.
@@jrmt6 I agree the looks of the interior is nicer. The functionality however is not. VW going to to those capacitive buttons and your hvac and seat heaters being built into the infotainment to me is a bit step backwards. Im sure it is a better handling car and faster as well but the lack of physical buttons to me is a real off putter.
LoL. This VW looks like a Cheap Kia. Especially because of the ugly rear spoiler and all of the plastic used inside. They should have put a 5 or 6 cilinder 2.5 to 3.5L semi electric engine with 450hp in this car. 300 is average these days. Also sad al car makers use cheap small 4 cil sub 2.0L engines these days. And sell them overpriced. A 2.0 was a starter engjne 15 years ago. (This golf Sounds like crap btw) edit: and thes capacitive buttons are cheap and annoying if you ask me. Fingerprint magnets. And is you sweat slightly it doesnt work very well. Entertainment system is crap also. How can they sell this (slow ass software ) crap in 2020? LOL. A 50 euro 10 inch tablet is faster than this slow outdated crap. And this car costs 60 g's?? What a ripoff!!
How long before there’s an aftermarket one? 😉
Great review !! You were noticeably enjoying the car a lot. Grossartig ! I wonder how it would compare to a GTI Clubsport.
The capacitive “buttons” are the biggest downgrade in a generation I’ve seen. 🤮🤮
This is a really nice Golf R and the sound it makes and also a fast car nice vídeo Thomas
My favorite part of your video the door closing sounds keep it up
=)
It was really nice. The difference is obvious.
Thank you for yet another detailed review Thomas and Autogefühl people!
Unfortunate the 8th generation is suffering from software issues after the systems in 7.5 seem to work flawlessly indeed - even if they're not that pretty it all works quite well.
I hope they manage to patch up those issues because I do find the 8 R is the most appealing of the pack.
Stay safe, and keep up the good work :)
I love it! Had my Scirocco for 5yrs now it’s discontinued in Australia. This Golf R is a beast
Best channel ' I follow you ..
You do great job ..
I get more information about VW . That's a lot ..
Need more and more ..
About volkswagen Golf R ..
Awesome 😎
Beautiful review 👍🇬🇧
Thanks Thomas for a great review, as usual. Lots have been waiting for this in the UK, who are considering Mk8 R ownership. Costs lots but offers on several fronts.
I’ll stay with my 7.5R for some time yet tho😀
Likewise 🇦🇺
Thomas is amazing! The best reviewer, so detail, objective and well, very easy on the eyes :)
🙏🙏😉
👌❤️
Please do Golf 8 GTD! I have one coming in a few months and I really want to see your review on it please Thomas. You are sublime!
Excellent review.
Great review
the best review ever about the VW8R
very astounishing content
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Some great sounds from that exhaust , A Real Snap Crackle and pop 😂👍👍
A real Dodge Neon
Great video. I am not a Golf fan, but this new car seems to be something very good 😊
That drift mode surprised you Thomas! Haha. Looking forward to trying that mode myself 👍😂
Thank you Thomas I've been waiting for this review.
You are a legend in full HD, full screen and full length. 😅🙏🏾
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Is that a law that applies only in Germany? Just curious.
@@piob9801 no, EU
Great review, hope it comes to Australia with the same options.
Now you know Australian legislature would never allow it.
Amazing quality video
Hi Thomas just a quick update if you are interested.
They have been updating the software on my Golf 8 regularly, about 5 times now and all over the air, so no dealer visits. It is pretty snappy now. At least it now responds quicker than most mainstream competitors, it is no iDrive or MBUX, but at least mine reacts as quick as my smartphone. The mapping could still use some work though.
But I had an e-Golf (loaner) with the old system (discover Pro 9,2 inch one) and it felt slower than the Golf 8's system. It feels a bit more choppy in the menus and the map is about as fast or slower in response. So they are getting there.
But definitely still room for improvement.
You're the man Thomas
👍😎
You are having too much fun Thomas.
Thanks for the review, this looks stunning 👌
15:39 that dacia sandero i think it was something like " where did that come from? " :))
They made it good enough with trinkets to pass as a R model,if I were to look at this in the future I would chose R over GTI
So the drift mode comes with performance pack or u can just order dcc and u will get all of the drive modes ? Also can you change ambient light or they are just a blue like in an old version ?
Awesome, thank you guys. This review was well overdue.
cheers!
Another great and detailed review, Thomas. I always learn far more from your tests than I do from those in the magazines. I think the car is fantastic, the only bad things really are the infotainment, some of the material quality and the price... Even without the Akrapovic exhaust, in the U.K. a Performance Pack R with a decent specification is around £45k, my high spec 7.5R was under £40k less than 3 years ago.
Looking forward to your test of the GTI Clubsport!
they have lost their mind with pricing. Behindtheglass had a cool discussion about it. 10k more you start looking at the new RS3 probably.
@@AlexanderDornbracht I agree, it’s too expensive. They’re trying to recoup money from the emissions crisis and pay for the electric car programme so although the car is good, infotainment and material quality have suffered.
I’m not totally convinced by RS3. New one has to be better than the old one. A friend replaced his S3 with an RS3 and was disappointed. Yes RS3 sounds nice and fast in a straight line, but S3 nicer to drive overall.
@@andrewmontague2636 How come the S3 was nicer? In what aspects?
@@dacmm His view was that it handled far better on country roads, steering was sharper and the ride quality better. He also thought that the S3 engine was more eager, RS3 may be quicker on paper or in a straight line, but not in practice.
Sometimes less is more. For example, many would argue that Mk5 Golf GTI was a better car than the R32, lovely though it sounds and looks. Engine is just a bit lazy compared to the 2.0.
Point is we’re all different. You pay your money and take your choice!
Mr Andrew, in Portugal, a Mk 8 Golf R with the very same spec and options of the car tested by Thomas, costs today, plus Euros 70 000 !!!, for God sake, I also have one Golf R mk 7.5 / 2018 with the normal exhausts ,DSG and a white pearled color I payed in new, about Euros 48 000 and love it, and I´m gonna keep it as far as I can. Thank you.
Hi, does this Golf R in the video have the standard seats or the optional Nappa leather seats? Does the seat memory feature (for the right seat) exist only in the optional Nappa leather seats or do you get the memory feature also with the standard seats?
Is the seating position lower than the MK7? Also do you know if the steering wheel position has changed? Only real problem with my MK7 is the seat doesn't get low enough and the steering wheel is angled a bit too high upwards.
I hate the 8, well all the other 8’s apart from this. This looks decent in this spec but the price is absolutely ridiculous.
Still no gas strut either 😆
@ Thomas, hi there do you think the longer paddle shifts behind the steering wheel fitted to this new 2021 GOLF R is an improvement over the small paddle shifts fitted to the Standard GTI and GTI Clubsport? And do you know why VW only changed the paddle shifter on the GOLF R only?
Can’t wait for my test drive
Hey Thomas it would be cool if you review your personal collection in the future!
Not a VAG fan but...😀 Well done Thomas, the driving part is awesome to watch
Thomas, i think it is time for 1440p !500k+sub (new changes) equals more channel points for the content you provide .You are welcome !
Love the door closing sound test :D
Excellent......
Great review. I’m wondering whether you can buy the car without that subwoofer in the lower trunk. I fill that area in my Version 7 R with tools and other gear. Don’t think I can give that space up for an upgraded sound system. I also don’t like the new touch controls. Might stick with my 2016
I’m a huge Golf fan, it’s all the car you ever need. This is so much more thou. For me this is the greatest hatchback ever made.
I’ll be getting a used one in 3 or 4 years when I’ve settled my mark 7.5 R.
I’m not bothered that an A45 or RS3 has more power, this is the king.
People will disagree but I don’t give a flying fuck
I have a mk7 and i think that the 7.5 has far better build quality than this. A lot of corners cut in making this car.
@@jirvine57 yes it has corners cut, but the driving experience is much better.
@@patrickbateman6885 i understand what you are saying but do you not think it should be more than just the driving experience (very very important I know), but the way the driver has to interact with the interior needs to be a positive experience. What are your thoughts on the pricing? Do you not think that they are taking the piss a bit?
I have a 7:5 unicorn map to 380hp. I see nothing here to tempt a change, having configured the same spec as mine com8ng out at £47k. No way VW. My Yaris GR arrives in March. 7.5 is a keeper.
Is it possible to turn the middle led strip in the front on and off? Or is it optional?
Have say my 2017 golf R has aged really well. I like it more!
I have a 2016 and agree! Hang into it, it will be a classic, as it is the final model which transitioned from nice manual push buttons to the awkward touch buttons
As a former racer (25 years and IMSA license) I like the new dynamics. My 2018 R plows on the track a bit too much and is also not crisp enough on turn in. Pushes in autocrosses. The new rear diff setup should help a great deal.
@@Gizz9Ard congrats on racing! Yes it will
Key looks exactly like the one from the Skoda Octavia. I was concerned about scratches too on this high gloss surface. Actually it is some kind of TPU/Silicone/soft plastic. After 3 months of use (+ other keys in the same pocket) it shows no scratches or wear. Good technical solution, feels good in the hand.
Excellent! Just Excellent!
I fairly impressed by the new Golf R. I still believe that the GTI 8 is the better value for anyone who is not going to track it. Even the GTI 8 top trim is much much less expensive then the R.....
So you can get pops and crackles in an Particulate filter world. Well done VW. Only thing that was coming across and maybe just the mic was the heavily synthesised engine sound. Fantastic review, refreshing a you tuber not making the video more about them, all about the car. Can’t wait til it goes up against my fk8
Great review, sub’d!
Thomas, Thanks for the in-depth views. Follow you from Canada -always envious of the variants Volkswagen has in Europe. I did manage to get a Golf R -4 door and I also have a Alltrack to balance things out. No Variants or Diesels here :( Cheers!
Cheers ben!
Wow the new golf R review by autogefuhl with Thomas! Lets watch!! BTW which camera do you use, your 1080P footage is very good....
that was a fantastic in depth review. I am a true fan of all Volkswagen AG vehicles. Mainly... Volkswagen since that is what i can afford at the moment :-D
You said something very interesting in this about the infotainment. Does it really need a 4G internet connection for the navigation to work?? Thanks
I can't wait until this car comes to the US. I currently have a MK7 Gti (which I'm keeping)