Back in its day, it was called “the hottest hot hatch Americans had ever seen.” For the third-generation GTI, Volkswagen ...

The year 2026 marks a momentous occasion for automotive enthusiasts as Volkswagen celebrates five decades of the iconic Golf ...

The ninth generation of the iconic Golf GTI is, eventually, going electric. VW’s head honcho has driven some prototypes and claims it’s a real beast. In conversations originally cited by Autocar, VW ...

VW has promised to put its legendary GTI badge on a production EV before the end of the decade, but one of its biggest hot hatch rivals, a brand with its own back catalog of GTI heroes, has only gone ...

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 ...

It may not be the first hot hatch ever made, but the Volkswagen Golf GTI can be best described as the car that defined the genre. Introduced in 1976, it was the result of an ad hoc team that wanted to ...

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 $50,000 ...

VW may have pulled down the final curtain on the base Golf hatchback, but its DNA lives on in both the front-wheel-driven GTI and the high-performance, all-wheel-drive Golf R. The former is powered by ...