VW’s beloved hatchback is now a three-time Car of the Year winner. History repeating itself is nothing rare in the automotive business, and for the Volkswagen Golf, its contribution to such tradition ...

The 325-hp front-wheel-drive GTI beat its own record from 2025 by 1.6 seconds, takes the podium ahead of Honda Civic Type R ...

The Golf GTI didn’t just join the hot hatch segment, it invented it. Half a century on, plenty of people assumed emissions rules and electrification would finish the format off. They were wrong. The ...

The GTI's 50th anniversary edition lapped Germany's famous racetrack and beat the CTR's record-setting run by less than a ...

With its 242 hp (245 PS), the standard Golf GTI is all the hot hatch some people will ever need, but in today's landscape where the Honda Civic Type R, for example, puts out 320 hp, you're tempted to ...

HIGHS Plucky 328-hp turbo four, standard all-wheel-drive, serious performance and thrills. LOWS Manual transmission is forevermore MIA, Euro-Package seats add support but lack ventilation, GTI is ...

The Golf GTI Edition 50 is VW's purpose-built celebration of the GTI's five-decade run.

They say the worst day of your life starts normally. Today, it started with Volkswagen announcing that the manual transmission in the Golf GTI and Golf R will be officially dead after 2024, with one ...

Summit Point, West Virginia — WAUUGGGGH! At West Virginia’s premier Summit Point Motorsports complex, I wrung the 2025 Volkswagen Golf GTI’s neck through the Jefferson Circuit’s technical Turn 2-3-4-5 ...

Since picking up his first set of MicroMachine toy cars as a toddler, Chris knew he had a passion for automobiles embedded in his soul. It wasn't until he started flipping through car magazines a ...

US fuel economy (MPG): 24/34/28 (GTI, MT) 25/34/28 (GTI AT), 20/28/23 (Golf R MT), 23/30/26 (Golf R AT) Starting Price (USD): $30,540 (GTI inc. dest.), $44,640 (Golf ...