---
title: "Here’s What a Volkswagen Golf Doing 211 MPH in the Half-Mile Looks Like"
description: "A turbo VR6 sends 1,300 hp to all four wheels."
date: "2020-08-09"
modified: "2020-08-09"
authors:
  - name: "Jesus Garcia"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/jesus-garcia"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/35533/heres-what-a-volkswagen-golf-doing-211-mph-in-the-half-mile-looks-like"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Volkswagen News"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "compact"
  - "golf"
  - "Hatchback"
  - "Volkswagen"
---

# Here’s What a Volkswagen Golf Doing 211 MPH in the Half-Mile Looks Like

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-09-at-3.10.59-PM-1.jpg>)
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While we Americans know a thing or two about straight-line speed, so do Europeans—more specifically, the Germans. They've long been tuning seemingly ordinary streetcars to almighty horsepower levels, more often than not in the shape of a Volkswagen Golf. This maroon MK2, for example, ran at the Race1000 event and showed that even though it looks plain, it's capable of hitting 211 miles per hour *in the*

 *half-mile.*

We're no strangers to super quick Golfs, but this is more than that. It doesn't even need 3,000 feet to reach speeds faster than a stock Lamborghini Huracan can manage on miles of open highway.

[This Volkswagen](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/31735/all-new-mk8-volkswagen-golf-gets-digital-cockpit-and-car2x-technology>) is a top-tier sleeper with wheels that scream "base model" and a fart-can looking exhaust. You'd probably notice the lower ride height and roll-cage spotting this hot-hatch on the street, but never would you suspect it was capable of sending 1,300 horsepower to all four wheels via a turbocharged VR6 engine. This is the same car we saw back in 2017 when it was running *only* 1,233 horsepower. It's a rolling testament to James Taylor's line in the 1971 cult-classic film *[Two-Lane Blacktop](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/34406/this-supercut-of-two-lane-blacktop-set-to-pink-floyds-one-of-these-days-is-perfect>)*: "You can never go fast enough."

https://youtube.com/embed/r1-dxe-F4q4

The Mk2 is also quick in shorter spurts. Its dedicated Facebook page, [Turbosektor-Ost](<https://www.facebook.com/Turbosektor-Ost-228477124001609/>), features a post from July 6 showing a quarter-mile time slip reading 9.1 seconds with an exit speed of 174 mph. It also ran the eighth-mile in 6.2 seconds at 137 mph. Really, it's hotter than a two-dollar pistol.

It's one thing to take a late model supercar past the 200-mph barrier, but to do it in an old, boxy hatchback? It takes a considerable amount of bravery to keep the gas pedal pinned to the floor, bulldozing the air for half a mile. Bravo!

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