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Last Auto Account – VW Confirms: No R32 For 2009 VW agent Thomas Wegehaupt informs abashed hot bear admirers everywhere that the Rabbit-based R32 bear will be demography at atomic a one-year hiatus. Cars.com finds this a bit of a aberrant move, as the redesigned R32 hadn’t even been on auction for a abounding year.Further, they brood that the acumen for the ’09 blank could be the ..Last Auto account –

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VW agent Thomas Wegehaupt informs abashed hot bear admirers everywhere that the Rabbit-based R32 bear will be demography at atomic a one-year hiatus. Cars.com finds this a bit of a aberrant move, as the redesigned R32 hadn’t even been on auction for a abounding year.

Further, they brood that the acumen for the ’09 blank could be the redesigned ’09 Golf/Rabbit branch to the U.S. bazaar next year. That car was appear at the contempo ’08 Paris Auto Show. Getting that the R32 resides on the Golf/Rabbit chassis, they acumen that we ability charge to delay a year or two into assembly of the new archetypal afore a appropriately adapted R32 comes into being.

But with approaching hi-po versions of the Golf/Rabbit GTI accounted to appear able with the uprated adaptation of VW’s 2.0-liter TFSI assertive (260+ horsepower, as in accessible achievement versions of the Audi TT), will the 250-horse R32 become an anachronistic engine and trim? Plus, with the R32′s college barrier weight due to equipment-intensive all-wheel drive, and thirstier V-6, one could accomplish a acceptable altercation that the niche-oriented R32 isn’t a astute bet for a boxy bazaar and ascent activity costs.

If you’re one of those abashed fans, bigger jump in the queue: Cars.com’s account affirmation a absolute of alone 276 R32s in the U.S. at present.–Colin Mathews

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