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 ...

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 ...

If the Volkswagen Golf GTI is the benchmark by which other hot hatches are judged, then the latest Mk7 must be the ultimate expression of the art form. And while some people might argue that the Mk7 ...

Full personal disclosure time: the Volkswagen Golf GTI is one of my absolute favorite cars. When VW invited me to drive the Euro-spec version of the new Mk8 alongside the outgoing Mk7 version on track ...

The Volkswagen Golf 7 GTI is about to be retired in America. As reviews of Euro-spec Mk8s are already being released ahead of the 2022 model's debut, we're actually beginning to miss the old hot hatch ...

The world of car customization is wide and varied and while we can understand and appreciate many of the interesting ways people modify their cars, some of us at least, never understood the ‘stance’ ...