Not particularly fast for a hothatch
Just going by my own experience, the one in the first picture is mine lol.I don't know, a 3 series would kill it but R32s are pretty quick, and they weren't quite in the "hot hatch" league at the time they came out. This was a-bahn limited to 155 because it had more speed on tap, many of the more common twilight supermarket car park crowd were in cars that wouldn't see 120, chromed mods or not.
If anything this was an exercise in making a Golf too quick for a Golf. Imo.