Even though it may have lost its manual transmission, the latest Volkswagen Golf R still has plenty of strengths. That car may not actually be the ultimate version of the current Golf, though.

The Mk7.5 VW Golf R may not have the ‘look-at-me’ exterior styling of some other potent hot hatches but it is a serious performer. This particular Golf R redefines just how potent it can be. From the ...

And it's absolutely fabulous. When Volkswagen started work on the Golf R MK8, the folks from Wolfsburg asked their colleagues at Audi if they could use the 2.5-liter TFSI engine from the Audi RS3, ...

In tuner car circles, there aren’t many rules on the limit of an engine a builder could put in a car. It’s a pretty free-for-all market. However, the vehicles that get the most credit are sleepers.

Being an absolute mammoth of a carmaker, it's only natural for the Volkswagen Group to offer many similar cars under different brands. Still, even though all three cars in this race are ...

Volkswagen toyed with the idea of launching a Golf R powered by the Audi RS3’s 2.5-liter five-pot, but that project was eventually shelved as it might have cannibalized the Audi’s sales. Nonetheless, ...

Nobody does a five-cylinder engine quite like Audi. Or should that be nobody did a five-cylinder quite like Audi? Fiat, ...

In the world of modifying cars, engine swaps are almost as common as mustard on a hot dog. You have the mainstream ones, like Chevrolet LS swaps, which is perfectly understandable, as they have the ...

Colour me unsurprised. The feel of the major controls in the previous FK8 model was superb and in our first drive of the new FL5 in the last issue, Dickie Meaden concluded that Honda’s obsession with ...

At this point, nearly halfway through a decade in which electrification is accelerating at a rapid pace, most internal combustion engines are pretty similar configurations, especially when it comes to ...