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 ...

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If you like driving, but also live in the real world, there's no better option than a hot hatchback. Hot hatches combine performance with practicality and (usually) affordability, and Volkswagen is ...

Volkswagen Group’s technical development boss Kai Grünitz went on the record saying that unless Euro 7 emissions rules change, the manual VW Golf will die by the time the new legislation is approved ...

The 2025 Volkswagen GTI isn’t a car of the year, but it wouldn’t be a misplaced nominee. An accolade designed for the sensible, trustworthy, buttered-bread models that keep the everyman mobile, ...

For the first 29 years of its life the Golf GTI was only available with a manual transmission. But by the time the hot hatch turns 49 that might be the one thing you can’t have on the most famous hot ...

Over the past five decades, the Volkswagen Golf GTI has seen its fair share of changes, but one thing remained constant: the manual transmission option. Well, not anymore. In the 2024 update (or ...

Having received minor tweaks to their head- and taillights for 2025, the Volkswagen GTI and Golf R are unchanged for 2026.

Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...

How Do the Mazda3 and Volkswagen Golf TSI Prices Compare? This is the Borneo pygmy elephant in the garage: Major pruning of the model lines and options availability at both Mazda and VW means the ...

Volkswagen’s overall manual take rate is modest. What’s quite surprising about VW’s manual numbers is they reveal Golf Sportwagen buyers really like shifting for themselves. A whopping 28% of ...

Arriving in the US in late 2021, the most-powerful Golf ever offer buyers a choice of manual or dual-clutch gearbox, plus there's a drift mode. Following stints in TV news production and as a record ...