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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Volkswagen Jetta GLI isn't a car you see often, and it's decidedly about as old school as a new car can get. Sedan, manual transmission, turbo four, modest output and reasonably priced ($33,745 ...

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 ...

The ID. Polo GTI Clubsport is set to feature Hyundai N-style simulated gearshifts, after VW said it wasn’t interested.

Powertrains: 241-horsepower (GTI) or 315-hp (R), turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder; six-speed manual or seven-speed, dual-clutch automatic transmission; front-wheel drive (GTI) or all-wheel drive ...