Anyone who has ever put a front-wheel drive car through its paces knows just how difficult it is to drift it, on dry asphalt anyway, as it tends to understeer. Rain can make it a bit more fun, but for ...

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 ...

The quintessential hot hatch. Rarely the most exciting, most engaging or best-handling car in its class, but usually the most sophisticated and desirable, the Golf GTI has been around in some form or ...

If you want to take your VW Golf GTI MK7 to proper hyper-hatch territory, then you will like Mountune52’s new Stage 2-plus upgrade solution. The new kit is the most advanced power upgrade that ever ...

It is telling of course that the chief joy of getting back in the Mk7 Golf GTI is just sitting in it, gleefully operating the major controls. Believe it or not, the car was not exactly feted for its ...

MotorTrend has finally named its Car of the Year for 2026, and it's a car with a sterling reputation for reliability that has lasted for decades.

Ask most enthusiasts what car to buy and you can just about guarantee that a Volkswagen Golf will feature highly in the list of potential purchases. And with good reason – it just does so many things ...

The Mk7 Volkswagen Golf GTI wasn’t long for this world when the GTI TCR (Touring Car Racing) came along, with the final GTIs being short-run specials. As we were driving the Golf GTI TCR, VW was ...

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"The Golf GTI story over the past 40 years is one of magic captured, lost and rediscovered" The Golf GTI succeeded because it combined the hatchback practicality everyone needed with the performance ...