{"id":672506,"date":"2010-02-23T02:23:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T07:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/vw-golf-r-gets-upgraded-by-aps-sportec-to-300-bhp-17192.html"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:52:25","slug":"vw-golf-r-gets-upgraded-by-aps-sportec-to-300-bhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/672506","title":{"rendered":"VW Golf R Gets Upgraded by APS Sportec to 300 BHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.autoevolution.com\/images\/news\/vw-golf-r-gets-upgraded-by-aps-sportec-to-300-bhp-17192-3.jpg?w=780\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/>The British tuners at APS, importers of the Swiss based Sportec range of vehicle performance enhancements, announced the launch of a Stage One ECU upgrade package for the new Volkswagen Golf R, leaving intact the car&#8217;s exterior and interior appearance.<\/p>\n<p> In standard form, the turbocharged 2.0-litre four cylinder Golf R produces 267 bhp (200 kW) and 258 lb.ft (354 Nm) of torque. <\/p>\n<p> Sportec&#8217;s recalibration of the fuel, ignition timing and boost pressure settings made through an extensively prove&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/vw-golf-r-gets-upgraded-by-aps-sportec-to-300-bhp-17192.html\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British tuners at APS, importers of the Swiss based Sportec range of vehicle performance enhancements, announced the launch of a Stage One ECU upgrade package for the new Volkswagen Golf R, leaving intact the car&#8217;s exterior and interior appearance. In standard form, the turbocharged 2.0-litre four cylinder Golf R produces 267 bhp (200 kW) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3481,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2OWS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774084,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672506\/revisions\/774084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}