Volkswagen Wants To Sell You A Racing Golf

Just like regular customers, racing teams have more than one choice when it comes time to buy a racecar: they could buy a brand-new production car and heavily modify it (or simply build their own vehicle from scratch), but there are also manufacturers that will sell them a vehicle ready to race from the get-go.

Volkswagen just unveiled a prototype to gauge customers' interest in such a vehicle. The Golf TCR concept is made to race in the TCR class, and with minimal changes it could race in a host of different events.

The car is equipped with a large aerodynamic bodykit, 18-inch wheels and a rear wing made of carbon fibre. Inside, we find everything useful for a driver, and nothing else: racing steering wheel, pedals, a carbon fibre seat, paddles for shifting the DSG transmission, and that's about it.

Under the hood, we find the 2-litre turbocharged engine from the GTI (albeit this one is heavily modified). In this configuration, it develops 330 horsepower and 302 pound-feet of torque, all of which is sent to the front wheels.

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