While VW has sold a fair share of its GTI models in the US, one awesome little number failed to make the trip across the ...

Volkswagen revealed the updated Golf to the world late Tuesday, marking the nameplate’s 50th anniversary with an overhauled (but not all-new) lineup that will come to our shores in the form of the ...

VW may have pulled down the final curtain on the base Golf hatchback, but its DNA lives on in both the front-wheel-driven GTI and the high-performance, all-wheel-drive Golf R. The former is powered by ...

The Volkswagen GTI and the spicier Golf R are two of the small number of hot hatchbacks that are still on offer here in the United States. It was VW that kicked off the whole segment 50 years ago at ...

For the ordinary driver, it can be quite confusing to keep track of the endless acronyms car manufacturers love to throw at you. Sometimes, a lot of us don't bother to know what they mean, especially ...

Road & Track loved the way the eighth-generation Volkswagen GTI drove when it was launched back in 2020, a shifty hot hatch with enough dynamic range to be entertaining on a racetrack yet tame enough ...

With the recent news of the end of the manual transmission for the GTI and Golf R, the writing is on the wall for one of the all-time-greatest performance cars, in this configuration anyway. They'll ...

Like a German train schedule, Volkswagen is right on time with its mid-cycle facelift for its Mk8 Golf and GTI. With that facelift comes predictably tweaked looks, some improved interior ergonomics, ...

VW hasn’t said a word about U.S. availability. The specs aren’t far off something we could see coming this way, and better than some new offerings in the market now or soon. The concept’s length of ...

Volkswagen may not have invented the hot hatch segment with the Golf GTI in 1976, but it certainly defined it, and in the process, ushered in a new age of compact and sporty family-friendly cars that ...

Is the Volkswagen Golf GTI a Good Car? If you need one car to be nearly everything an enthusiast driver could possibly want it to be (efficient commuter, capable canyon carver, car-pool-friendly kid ...