Cold start in a parking garage, and the guy next to me with the tuned GTI stopped mid-sentence. No flutter, no pops, just a narrow-angle six clearing its throat off the concrete. He asked what it was running. I said nothing, that's the point. While everyone else is paying the WRX and Evo tax and arguing about boost, the R32 has been quietly doing the same job, all-wheel-drive grip in a small car, without a turbo at all. 3.2L narrow-angle VR6. 240hp, 236 lb-ft. Haldex AWD. Six-speed manual on the Mk4. In a Golf. VW built this to answer the rally-bred crowd and then let it sit in a hatchback body that most people walk right past at the meet. Here's where people get it wrong. They buy it for numbers, then bolt a turbo kit on it chasing a dyno sheet the WRX guys will beat anyway. You buy this car for the sound and the way the power comes on smooth all the way up, not in one hit at the top. Keep it naturally aspirated and it stays the car it was meant to be. Your mechanic gets it. Their ...