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 ...

A week or so ago, I drove to M1 Concours in Pontiac, MI to drive the Mk8 GTI on the facility's road course and on an autocross course they put together for the event. I drove both the manual and DCT ...

Volkswagen's Golf GTI is a popular choice for tuning fans on both sides of the pond. The Mk8 Golf GTI should make no exception, and Volkswagen has already taken the first step in that direction. They ...

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 ...

Volkswagen’s GTI name comes with a lot of history, and one of the most important cars to wear the badge was Mk2 Golf GTI, which refined the formula created by the original. Now, 29 years after its ...

The new VW Golf GTI is a great hot hatch but like its predecessors, it has a restrained and subtle look not all that different from lesser Golf models. That’s where this bodykit from Prior Design ...

There are cars that will generate more column inches of ink than the new 2022 Volkswagen GTI this year. But every new GTI is an icon. VW has been building them since 1976. That makes this new model ...

There’s plenty of smoke rising from the Volkswagen Golf family camp, but no fire yet. We’re still early in the buildup to what the Golf will become, said buildup full of special editions and ...

The eight-generation of the Volkswagen Golf GTi is by far the best so far, with 245 horsepower. It will be the only Golf in Volkswagen's US range when it arrives late next year. Photo: Volkswagen ...