Volkswagen Golf GTI, and what started out as a skunkworks project has come to define the entire hot hatchback genre ...

From the January/February 2026 issue of Car and Driver. Losing another manual transmission frustrates us nearly as much as missing out on breakfast at Whammy Burger by three minutes. We North ...

The GTI first earned our Car of the Year trophy in 1985, back when we awarded separate Golden Calipers for domestic and imported models. Thirty years later, the seventh-generation Golf lineup, which ...

Inspired by the Safari Rally, Wilson studied travel and tourism to stay on the road. He now blogs about cars to stay close to his dream of traversing the hidden gems of the world with an off-roader.

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 ...

VW’s hot hatch lives up to the moniker, blitzing past the 60kph mark in just over 3 seconds and hitting 100kph on our GPS-based testing equipment just 2.72 seconds later. The Golf GTI’s tested ...

Volkswagen has introduced the eighth generation of the Golf hot hatch models, the GTI and the R. These "Mark 8" models feature an updated engine, new vehicle dynamics settings, and a new electronics ...

The popularity of the Volkswagen Golf GTI is undeniable. With a cult-like following, there’s good reason this hot hatch is so popular. Simply put, it’s a fantastic car. Blending performance, comfort, ...

Exactly 48 years after the first-ever Golf GTI debuted at the Frankfurt auto show, Volkswagen revealed the ID. GTI Concept at the 2023 Munich auto show and presented what the famous GTI name could ...

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 ...