Volkswagen offers two fun and active versions of the Golf hatchback, providing the heat and pure fun that many drivers look for in these hot hatches. The Golf GTI is a slightly tamer version of the ...

Through eight generations over 40 years, the Volkswagen Golf GTI has defined affordable fun, and the Golf R has embellished the package with more power and all-wheel drive. That their hatchback bodies ...

It's been five years since Volkswagen launched the current Mk8 Golf. While the standard Golf model left our shores at the end of the Mk7's series production run due to poor demand—and because buyers ...

The Volkswagen Golf has consistently been a top choice among performance-oriented hatchbacks, available in GTI and high-performance Golf R models. Unfortunately, buyers will no longer have the option ...

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 next-generation Volkswagen Golf GTI has been imagined as a hybridized alternative to the VW ID. Golf GTI. Do you like it?

For the 2025 model year, Volkswagen’s twin attainable and aspirational hot hatches get the subtlest and saddest of refreshes. They’re subtle in that the only exterior tweaks are new head- and ...

VW's standard-bearer hot hatches are as great as ever. But they have some tech "upgrades" now that need more baking time. But like those annoying touchscreen ordering kiosks, however, this eighth-gen ...

The weekend before last, for just a breath or two, I nearly experienced one of the greatest drives of my life. Road & Track hosted a cars and coffee at the Malibu Racquet Club. If you weren’t there, ...