In recent years, the Volkswagen Golf R has become somewhat of an odd proposition. It’s deservedly renowned for its versatility—a comfortable super tourer among hot hatches one minute ...

Ultimately, that extra outlay buys you the better car, as you'd hope it would - and as the wider VW Group intended. It gives up precious little, if anything, to the Golf as a driving experience ...

The pert Volkswagen Golf GTI and Golf R have always been a gateway to relatively affordable fun on four wheels, with their hatchback silhouette and roarty powertrains. For 2025, the manual ...

The standard Volkswagen Golf range now begins with a 1.5-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol in a 114bhp state of tune, paired with a manual transmission as standard in both Life and Match trim.

Volkswagen's Golf turned a half-century old this year. Throughout its automotive tenure, it's had a large hand in shaping the very fabric of motoring history as we know it. What started as a ...

Volkswagen really needed to do something about the Golf. Now, that’s not to say that the Mk8 – launched in 2019 – was a bad car. It was still very competent, but it was completely let down ...

The Golf is one of Volkswagen’s most iconic models, and the name will live on into the brand’s next-generation of vehicles. After the eighth-generation hatchback sees out its lifecycle ...

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 ...

For many years, the Volkswagen Golf was the car against which all others ... a 12V socket or three-pin 230V socket to power a cool box or other appliance. The boot space is better than the Focus ...