The refreshed Mk 8 GTI is easier to love thanks to an improved interior. But Volkswagen couldn’t help fixing something that ...

With hot hatches increasingly rare, VW's commitment to practical sports cars is admirable. But is a missing manual the only ...

If you need one car to be nearly everything an enthusiast driver could possibly want it to be (efficient commuter, capable ...

Road & Track loved the way the eighth-generation Volkswagen GTI drove when it was launched back in 2020, a shifty hot hatch ...

production of the Mk8 was being wound down in anticipation of the refreshed model – the Mk8.5 – and incentives started to be advertised,” Skelton says. “I drove both the GTI and the Golf R ...

Honda has a reputation for staid and reliable pillars of the car community, but what happens when Honda designers exercise a ...

more usable alternative to a MK I/MK II Golf GTI or euro-market classic hot hatch favorites like the Peugeot 205 GTi or Renault Clio Williams, all of which the Abarth will handily out-perform. There’s ...

In fact, the only real competitor it has to fend off is the previous-gen, Mk6 Golf GTI. For the new model, Volkswagen has honed and enhanced the nameplate’s genes as much as it can with all of ...

For more than four decades, the Golf GTI has been the standard by which all high-performance hatchbacks are measured. Over ...

The Golf GTI and AWD Golf R wow on and off the track with cutting-edge tech, handling, style and utility. But enthusiasts ...

Reston, VA — Volkswagen is giving a mid-cycle refresh to the two Golf variants it still offers. The. The current, eighth generation of the legendary GTI and R launched here for the 2022 model ...