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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the Honda Civic Type R skews more toward the more hardcore enthusiast, the Golf R has more of a grown-up disposition.

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 ...

Volkswagen’s top Golf, the all-wheel-drive Golf R, is getting a face-lift for the 2025 model year. The refreshed model features tweaked front and rear styling, new wheel designs, an updated ...

Volkswagen rolled out the new Golf in January, and ever since they've been dropping performance variants like a striptease for gearheads. The Golf R Mk8.5 is about to hit the streets, and it's packing ...

The 2025 VW Golf R is getting a performance bump for 2025, now sending 328 hp and 310 lb-ft of torque through a seven-speed automatic. This hot hatch will not feature a manual transmission. US market ...

VW is inching closer to the launch of the revised Mk8.5 Golf R and has just dropped some new details about the model after inviting a bunch of journalists to drive the new model in prototype guise in ...

Volkswagen sent out a press release this morning about the 2024 Golf GTI 380 Edition. It contains the biggest "oh, by the way" in the history of enthusiast cars: that the 380 is being built to ...

Sam, the host of the Sam CarLegion channel on YouTube, has prepared yet another drag-and-roll race skirmish – and this time around, a contemporary hot hatchback is going up against a hot hatchback ...