View Photos of the 2022 Volkswagen Golf R
With a Drift mode for its new torque-vectoring all-wheel-drive system, VW's latest 315-hp Golf R hot hatch is rowdier than ever.
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Transverse-engine, all-wheel-drive hatchbacks—such as the redesigned 2022 Volkswagen Golf R that will go on sale in the United States later this year—are not ideal for drifting. You want to go sideways? Buy a rear-drive muscle car. Yet, with its new Drift mode feature and a torque-vectoring rear differential, the hottest production Golfs can be coaxed into glorious opposite-lock slides.
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