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 ...

It's hard to believe, but the Golf GTI is an old hand. The little hatchback that started the hot hatch genre back in the 1970s is now 50 years old. To celebrate, Volkswagen has debuted a new, special ...

For more than four decades, the Golf GTI has been the standard by which all high-performance hatchbacks are measured. Over eight generations, the formula of style, refinement, practicality, and ...

Forty-nine years after Volkswagen revealed the first ever Golf hot hatch we’re still waiting for an electric GTI-branded production car. But today VW is launching the next best thing, the ID.3 GTX, ...

Volkswagen's performance-oriented R brand kicked off with the fourth-generation Volkswagen Golf R32 in 2002. In the first instance, R models came with six-cylinder naturally aspirated lumps.

The GTI first earned our Car of the Year trophy in 1985, back when we awarded separate Golden Calipers for domestic and imported models. Thirty years later, the seventh-generation Golf lineup, which ...

View post: BMW Cancelled an M5 Convertible Just Days Before Its Debut The Golf GTI Edition 50 was almost no more than an appearance package, but VW engineers decided to take it seriously. We’re not ...