m52 Blog

David Mountain, the founder of mountune, together with a group of experienced industry investors, are delighted to announce the acquisition of the mountune Performance and Racing business, safeguarding a large number of jobs at the Essex-based facility, and raising the required capital to both protect the brand and secure its future.

Tuning company Mountune, under the M52 banner, has modified the Golf R hot hatch, to potentially create the best of the Mk7 breed. We visited its base of operations in Essex to learn more.

Mat Watson recently jumped behind the wheel of a mountune52 Stage 1 upgraded Golf R to put it head-to-head with a both a standard Golf R and an Audi RS3 as part of carwow's drag race, rolling start and brake testing video series.

Take a look at what Autocar had to say in their latest review about our Stage 1 VW Golf R, as well as our range of m52 products.

mountune's first go at a VW is a Stage 1 Tweak of the Golf R - can it really improve on a benchmark?

Before launching our new m52 division, fifteen52 were busy working with Volkswagen of America on several high-profile project builds. This 2019 GLI you see here being the most recent.