Volkswagen has officially confirmed its rumoured R-badged T-Roc is coming, releasing teaser footage of its go-fast SUV at the infamous Nurburgring.
The car is fully camouflaged for now, but the tricky wrapping can't completely disguise it's bulging arches, the quad exhaust tips poking out from beneath its shapely rump, and the 19-inch R design alloys.
We don't know much else, at least officially, at this point, other than the T-Roc R is expected to share its engine, and its all-wheel-drive set-up, with fire-breathing Golf R. Which should mean a turbocharged 2.0-litre unit producing a very healthy 213kW and 380Nm.
In Golf guise, those numbers translate to a sprint to 100km/h in a flat five seconds, and if the T-Roc R was to get close to those numbers, we are tipping it will be a rather fun SUV.
The T-Roc isn't yet offered in Australia, but VW would surely be working on that, given the immense popularity of high-riders in this country. And the brand has high hopes for an R-badged halo model, too.
"We don't have any local details yet," says VW Australia spokesperson, Kurt McGuiness. "Obviously we'd like it, as Australia is one of the biggest R markets in the world. But it's too soon to talk arrival dates or engine specifics."
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Andrew Chesterton
Contributing Journalist
Andrew Chesterton should probably hate cars. From his hail-damaged Camira that looked like it had spent a hard life parked at the end of Tiger Woods' personal driving range, to the Nissan Pulsar Reebok that shook like it was possessed by a particularly mean-spirited demon every time he dared push past 40km/h, his personal car history isn't exactly littered with gold.
But that seemingly endless procession of rust-savaged hate machines taught him something even more important; that cars are more than a collection of nuts, bolts and petrol. They're your ticket to freedom, a way to unlock incredible experiences, rolling invitations to incredible adventures. They have soul.
And so, somehow, the car bug still bit. And it bit hard.
When "Chesto" started his journalism career with News Ltd's Sunday and Daily Telegraph newspapers, he covered just about everything, from business to real estate, courts to crime, before settling into state political reporting at NSW Parliament House.
But the automotive world's siren song soon sounded again, and he begged anyone who would listen for the opportunity to write about cars. Eventually they listened, and his career since has seen him filing car news, reviews and features for TopGear, Wheels, Motor and, of course, CarsGuide, as well as many, many others.
More than a decade later, and the car bug is yet to relinquish its toothy grip. And if you ask Chesto, he thinks it never will.
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