If you ask us, every Volkswagen Golf GTI is a good GTI, but it's clear that VW knows what really makes its hot hatch great. The automaker packed all the best stuff into the 2024 GTI's 380 special ...

"They won't make them like this much longer" is a pretty hackneyed aphorism, but it certainly applies to the Volkswagen Golf GTI. The Mk 8 Golf is due for a mid-life refresh next year, and when ...

Since its European launch in 1976, the Volkswagen Golf GTI has been the yardstick against which all other hot hatches are measured, while its New Millennium Golf R counterpart has evolved from the ...

GTI Clubsport? Shouldn’t this have a roll cage and no soundproofing? People haven’t been buying Golf GTIs since 1976 ... 2.0-litre turbo remains pegged at 300 metric horsepower, or 296bhp.

A Volkswagen Golf GTI without an available manual transmission is like Queen without Freddie Mercury. Sure, "Bohemian Rhapsody" still gets everyone to sing along, but the magic inherent in Fred's ...

The Golf GTI set the ... Cupra’s Leon 300 recently received its own mid-life update, and is underpinned by the same platform and mechanicals as the GTI Clubsport but with a more striking body ...

Volkswagen provided accommodation so Ars could drive the Golf GTI. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Even in an alternate timeline in which the average new car didn't cost more than $ ...

(Cue mournful trombones.) The GTI starts at $33,670 (all prices include a $1,225 destination charge), just $480 more expensive than its 2024 counterpart, while the Golf R’s $48,325 base price is ...

The updated 2025 VW Golf GTI features ChatGPT The AI is integrated into an upsized 12.9-inch touchscreen that is standard in the U.S. This Golf GTI might be the last iteration with a gas engine ...

The Golf GTI is the classic symbol of hot hatchback. With humble beginnings as a two-door 110-hp hatch over 40 years ago, the Golf GTI became an absolute legend with several successful generations ...

If you ask us, every Volkswagen Golf GTI is a good GTI, but it's clear that VW knows what really makes its hot hatch great.