New 2019 Volkswagen Golf R
at Cochran Volkswagen of North Hills in Wexford

VW Spectrum

From Magma Orange to Ice Blue to Viper Green and pretty much everything in between, the Golf R now has dozens of special new exterior colors to choose from.

LED Headlights With Adaptive Front-Lighting System (AFS)

These headlights create bright beams of light to help improve visibility, lasting longer and using less energy than halogen bulbs. The Adaptive Front-lighting System allows the headlights to turn slightly with the direction of your steering at certain speeds. Lighting takes a brilliant turn.

Dual Exhaust With Quad Tips

Now you hear it, now you don’t. This exhaust system, exclusive to the Golf R, delivers a refined yet beastly announcement that you’ll be approaching quickly—and passing by even quicker.

19″ Two-Toned Machined Alloy Wheels

With 19″ alloys, your wheel of style will always be in motion.

Top Sport Seats With The R Logo

Bucket-style, race-inspired front seats. The large and bolstered design really lets you sink into the action, whether you’re behind the wheel or you’re the copilot.

Carbon Touch Accents

The Golf R doesn’t just go fast, it looks fast with its carbon fiber look trim.

Volkswagen Digital Cockpit

This display is a true breakthrough. Instead of the traditional instrument cluster, information can be displayed digitally in high resolution.

8″ Touchscreen Navigation System

Besides looking great, the sleek glass display helps make the map more prominent, while available dynamic route guidance can assist you with turn-by-turn information.

Fender® Premium Audio System

Transform your Golf R into a concert hall on wheels with the available Fender Premium Audio System that has a 400-watt amp and eight speakers, plus a subwoofer. Rock while you roll.

Your iPhone’s Arrived At Its Destination.

Open the Apple Maps app and use it to help navigate to your favorite spots, find new places, and get turn-by-turn directions from the comfort of your dash.

Message And Call With A Touch Of A Button.

Send texts, make calls, and answer iMessages via Siri.

A New Venue For Your iPhone.

Access and control music, podcasts, and more right from your dash through Apple iTunes. Your Volkswagen, now a concert hall on wheels.

VW Car-Net Guide & Inform

Enjoy a host of available features like enhanced navigation with traffic, sports scores, weather information, and more. This is part of the SiriusXM® Traffic and SiriusXM Travel Link® 3-month trial subscription.

Pedestrian Monitoring

The Pedestrian Monitoring (included in Front Assist) feature can warn of pedestrians crossing in front of the vehicle and, under certain circumstances can, brake automatically to help prevent or mitigate the outcome of a collision with a pedestrian if the driver doesn’t respond adequately to the warnings.

SiriusXM® All Access

Get your fingers warmed up. SiriusXM All Access offers music, plus major sporting events and some of the biggest names in entertainment, news, and comedy are available with a 3-month trial subscription.

Sunroof Rain Notification

If you leave the sunroof open and there is rain in the near forecast, the VW Car-Net mobile app can help. It can send you a notification so you can return to the car and close it.

Open Vehicle Notification

Let’s say you accidentally leave your VW unlocked. Or maybe the trunk or one of the doors is ajar. The VW Car-Net mobile app can let you know, and you can even lock the doors remotely.

Parking Information

Powered by Parkopedia, the Parking Information feature can help make owners’ lives easier by locating off-street parking information near a destination and sending the location to your in-vehicle navigation system, if so equipped, when you click the “Send to My VW” button.

Adaptive Cruise Control

Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) helps the vehicle maintain a preset speed and distance from the car in front of you. When activated, if the car in front of you speeds up or slows down, the sensors can detect the change and your car follows suit.

Blind Spot Monitor

When driving, if you attempt to change lanes, the Blind Spot Monitor can help alert you to cars that may be in your blind spot. The Active Blind Spot Monitor can also counter-steer within the limits of Lane Assist to help keep you in your lane if you attempt to change lanes when a vehicle is in your blind spot.

Light Assist

High Beam Control (Light Assist) helps provide better visibility on dark roads by turning on your high beams at certain speeds. A camera mounted at the base of the rearview mirror turns your high beams on when conditions warrant it on dark or poorly lit roads. It then turns them off again if another car approaches or drives in front of you.

Lane Assist

When moving, the Lane Keeping System (Lane Assist) can sense if you start to drift into another lane without using the turn signal. Within the limits of the system, Lane Assist can help steer to help keep you in the current lane.

Park Distance Control With Maneuver Braking

Park Distance Control has sensors that can help you back out of or drive into a parking spot. Audible signals and the optical parking system on the display indicate how much space you have behind and, on some vehicles, in front of the vehicle when parking. If you get too close, the system beeps as a warning. Maneuver Braking (included with Park Distance Control) can apply emergency braking force automatically to help mitigate and in best case prevent collisions with stationary obstacles while you maneuver the vehicle in reverse gear.

Front Assist

The Forward Collision Warning (included in Front Assist) system can help monitor traffic and can alert you acoustically and visually to a potential front-end collision with the vehicle moving ahead. If it senses that a collision is imminent, Autonomous Emergency Braking (included in Front Assist) can support the driver with increased brake pressure or, if the driver does not react at all, it can apply the brakes automatically. Pedestrian Monitoring (included in Front Assist) feature can warn of pedestrians crossing in front of the vehicle and, under certain circumstances, can brake automatically to help prevent or mitigate the outcome of a collision with a pedestrian if the driver doesn’t respond adequately to the warnings.

Rear Traffic Alert

Rear Traffic Alert comes in handy when you’re backing up. It has sensors that can alert you to vehicles crossing in your path when in reverse and can even help brake the vehicle if needed.

Rear View Camera System

Benefit from the view of a wide lens when you want it. It can help you see obstacles when backing up, a feature so helpful you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it.

NHTSA 5-Star Safety Rating

The 2019 Golf R has earned a 5-star overall safety rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). A high-5 for high marks.

Automatic Post-Collision Braking System

Not every collision brings a car to stop. That’s why our vehicles include the Automatic Post-Collision Braking System. It can also help slow the vehicle down after a collision, helping reduce the chance of any additional impacts.

Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS)

Monitoring and maintaining proper air pressure in your tires helps with efficiency and safety. The TPMS helps alert you to a loss of tire pressure so you know when to add air.

Seven Stability-Enhancing Systems

From Electronic Brake-pressure Distribution (EBD), which helps maintain appropriate stopping power during a hard-braking situation, to Electronic Stability Control (ESC), which can adjust engine throttle and apply corrective forces to the wheels that need them most, your vehicle is equipped with a total of seven stability-enhancing systems.

Let’s Cut To The Chase.

288 hp and 280 lb-ft of torque can take you from 0 to 60 in under 5 seconds. It won’t take much more to heat things up.

4MOTION®

The 4MOTION all-wheel-drive system transfers torque between the front and rear wheels. In normal driving conditions, power is delivered to the front wheels. But 4MOTION can also send torque to the rear axle when it’s needed. Talk about a power move.

7-Speed DSG® Automatic Transmission With Tiptronic® And Sport Mode

Faster shifting than a manual transmission, the available 7-speed DSG automatic transmission lets you quickly upshift and downshift using paddle shifters located within a finger’s reach on the steering wheel. It’s accelerated shifting.

DCC® Adaptive Chassis Control

With three settings of suspension firmness to choose from, DCC adaptively controls the damper valves of the Golf R with a refined control algorithm. Taking input signals from wheel sensors and front and rear acceleration sensors, DCC adjusts the optimal damping force, selectively applying force to the four wheels individually.

2.0L TSI® Engine

With a powerful 4-cylinder engine, the Golf R boasts 288 hp and 280 lb-ft of turn-twisting torque. On the road or track, the Golf R has been designed to fire on all cylinders.

Golf R with DCC® and Navigation