With the new Mk8.5 Golf arriving for 2025, Volkswagen killed off its manual hot hatches. That's in spite of clear customer demand. Volkswagen updated the Mk8 Golf for the 2025 model year ...

The manual-loving minority movement has lost yet another battle. Volkswagen’s refreshed 2025 Golf lineup, dubbed the Mk8.5, brought updated styling and interior improvements. However ...

Manual transmissions are quickly going the way of the dodo, and the 2025 Volkswagen Golf R is yet another example. For 2025, Volkswagen has cut the manual transmission from both the Golf GTI and ...

It’s all turned on its head for the 2025 model year, when the GR Corolla will gain an eight-speed automatic and the Golf R will lose its manual (but gain 13 hp), which makes this year’s model ...

Rather, it pays tribute to the current Golf's internal chassis code and, most of all, it marks the end of the road for the manual transmission option in the GTI, at least for us yanks. What a sad ...