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 ...

For half a century, the GTI badge has defined the hot hatch segment.But in recent years, the battle for front-wheel-drive ...

A few years ago, the Volkswagen Golf GTI and the Honda Civic Type R were regularly trading blows in the battle for ...

It's been a good week for Volkswagen Group exploits on a certain German racetrack, because the Golf GTI Edition 50 has ...

Mechanically, there wasn't really anything wrong with the MK8 Volkswagen GTI and Golf R. In fact, they were both pretty awesome. Redesigning an icon like the MK7 Golf is no easy task, but Volkswagen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the longest time, it was the Golf that got most of the sweet high-performance treatment from Volkswagen. There have been ...

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 ...