At the very top of the 1.4-litre Golf line-up sits the R-Line. You don’t get any extra performance, as the R-Line stays with the same turbocharged four-cylinder engine with its 110kW and 250Nm ...

Introduced in 2012, over its eight-year lifespan the Mk.7 Golf lineup included such models as the 1.0 TSI, 1.4 TSI, 2.0 TSI, 2.0 TDI, GTD, GTI and R.

Genuinely, the 2025 VW Golf TSI in R-Line guise is 80% of the way to being a GTI. And 80% of the time there’s a well-meaning fan giving it a once-over with an iPhone in the carpark.

Volkswagen Golf GTI Scheduled to follow the Volkswagen Tiguan R-Line shortly, is the Volkswagen Golf GTI. Expect it to come to the market sometime during the end of the second quarter of 2025.