Volkswagen Golf R: Enjoy The Fun of Driving Halo Cars Like This While You Still Can The 2017 version of Volkswagen Golf's five-year-old halo model, Golf R, is a driver's car but it only gets 25 combined miles to the gallon, so there's nothing particularly "sustainable" about it. It's not very big, so you can't haul a lot of stuff in it. But it sure is fun to drive.