Power of conversation: VW `R' may come to America.(News)(Volkswagen R32 in final stage of crash standard testing)(Brief Article)

Byline: ROGER HART AutoWeek has learned the Euro-market Volkswagen R32 is in the final stages of testing to see if the car can be modified to meet U.S. crash standards. Those tests should be completed in the next few weeks, and if the engineers are successful, we will see the R32 Golf coming to the United States as a 2004 model. The idea to consider the R32 for the U.S. market may have come from a conversation Volkswagen chairman Bernd Pischetsrieder had with automotive journalists during a lunch in June at the company's test facility near Wolfsburg. In response to a ...