VW Debuts R GTI Concept at SEMA

Last year, Volkswagen unveiled some very cool variants of their Jetta, Passat and Touareg with a simple R badge. The new GTI wasn't available in the U.S. at the time. This year, however, the GTI made the trip to Vegas and in fact is the main attraction at VW's display.
The VW R GTI is a one-off produced by Chief Designer Derek Jenkins and his Volkswagen Design Center California crew. Add on a more powerful turbocharger to the stock car and somehow VW and partner APR wrangle 375 hp out of the hot hatchback. There are much larger tires and...
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