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 ...

We're a little less excited to compare the sound of the Mk7 GTI to the 7.5 facelift than we were with the Leon Cupra. But this is a very important debut for the hot hatch market. When the model ...

In 1976, Volkswagen created the “hot hatch” with the MK1 Golf GTI. Since then, many competitors have come and gone, but the little GTI has evolved into the seventh generation you see here. Though the ...

"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 ...

Some have argued classic status for the Mk7 Golf GTI. We've got till Christmas to make a call on the run-out version The first thing we did with the TCR was take it back. We'd asked for the honeycomb ...