The 2025 Volkswagen GTI isn’t a car of the year, but it wouldn’t be a misplaced nominee. An accolade designed for the sensible, trustworthy, buttered-bread models that keep the everyman mobile, ...

There’s something nostalgic about the 2025 Volkswagen Golf GTI, but it still delivers everything you’d want from a modern performance hatchback. The GTI has long been the benchmark for fun-to-drive ...

Summit Point, West Virginia — WAUUGGGGH! At West Virginia’s premier Summit Point Motorsports complex, I wrung the 2025 Volkswagen Golf GTI’s neck through the Jefferson Circuit’s technical Turn 2-3-4-5 ...

Is the Volkswagen Golf GTI a Good Car? If you need one car to be nearly everything an enthusiast driver could possibly want it to be (efficient commuter, capable canyon carver, car-pool-friendly kid ...

The 2025 Volkswagen Golf GTI and R entered their eighth generation in 2020, and while the core of these vehicles hasn't changed, there are some significant updates for the new model year. These ...

Having received minor tweaks to their head- and taillights for 2025, the Volkswagen GTI and Golf R are unchanged for 2026.

VW’s hot hatch lives up to the moniker, blitzing past the 60kph mark in just over 3 seconds and hitting 100kph on our GPS-based testing equipment just 2.72 seconds later. The Golf GTI’s tested ...

There's always a concern when a title states the bleeding obvious - "Quality Home Improvements" or "Reliable Used Cars" for example. So putting a "Performance" badge on a car already renowned for just ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Volkswagen Golf. Although the Golf GTI didn’t debut until June 1976, VW’s using this year’s Nürburgring 24-hour race to commemorate the original Golf and ...