Don't worry, Golfs with loud exhausts aren't going anywhere.

The Volkswagen Golf GTI is now in its fifth decade of refining what a practical performance car should be. It slots just ...

John Neff is a veteran automotive journalist with over two decades of experience leading major outlets such as Autoblog and Motor1. Beginning his career as Editor-in-Chief of Speed, Style & Sound, he ...

Volkswagen is developing the EA888 2.0-litre turbo engine for new emissions regs, meaning new hot hatches are in the works ...

The new Volkswagen Golf GTI is both the most powerful and most expensive GTI ever, but what's it like on the road?

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 ...

Of all the hot hatch lineages that have come and gone, the Golf GTI has arguably been the most consistent in its ethos. From the blueprint-making ’76 Mk1 to the present day Mk8.5, GTIs have always had ...

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

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 ...

The 2024 Volkswagen Golf GTI was the last time the iconic hatchback was available with a manual transmission. Since then, ...

Volkswagen is refreshing what many enthusiasts consider its halo cars, the GTI and Golf R hatchbacks, for the 2025 model year. (You can read the full rundowns on the updated 2025 VW GTI here and the ...

VW's updated hot hatches get even hotter this year, and we're on-hand at the first drive for a shakedown. Hello from the sunny state of Virginia, where I've just touched down for the first drive of ...