Volkswagen Concept R

The Volkswagen Concept R is a concept car developed by Volkswagen and unveiled at the September 2003 Frankfurt Auto Show. It is a study of a sporty two-seat roadster with a mid-mounted engine and rear-wheel drive, powered by a 3.2 litre V6 FSI petrol engine that makes 265 PS and 320 N m of torque and is passed to the road by a six-speed direct-shift gearbox. It accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 5.3 seconds and reaches an electronically limited top speed of 250 km/h. The design team was led by Murat Günak and Peter Schreyer, and the car is built on the platform of the fifth-generation Golf. Its seats are filled with active foam, a first in a sports car. In 2005 the Volkswagen Group chairman confirmed an intention to build a production car like it, and the 2009 Concept BlueSport followed as a similar concept.