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

The Volkswagen GTI's all-around talents have earned it a special place in our hearts over the years, and the Golf R has only made the hot hatch cooler, quicker, and more extreme. We've loved it, too.

Here is another Best of compilation and this time it is about the best Volkswagen Golf GTI & Golf R videos we made the past 3 ...

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, ...

The Volkswagen Golf has always been fun to hustle around back roads, from the first hatch that came out in 1974 to the current Mk. 7 that debuted in 2012. For 2018, the latest gen gets a hearty ...

Even on the used market, the Volkswagen Golf 7 GTI remains a benchmark in the sports compact segment. Produced from 2013 to 2020, it stands out for its excellent balance of driving pleasure and daily ...

Ralph Hanson March 12, 2009 Comment Now! Last November Volkswagen unveiled a thinly disguised 'concept' of the new Mark VI Golf GTI, one of the most acclaimed hot hatches on the market, and in late ...

Since picking up his first set of MicroMachine toy cars as a toddler, Chris knew he had a passion for automobiles embedded in his soul. It wasn't until he started flipping through car magazines a ...

History repeats in the best way for Volkswagen’s icon: the Golf lineup—GTI and R—earns MotorTrend’s 2026 Car of the Year. In refreshed Mk8 form, both models sharpen design and tech while honoring ...

We often say that the mark of a good car is how many weird tuning projects you can find. In that regard, the Mk7 Golf was one of the best hot hatches to wear the GTI badge, but we've never seen ...

Specialist tuning firm Ingo Noak has a tradition of taking cars that don't get enough love and making them really cool. They did it with the Scirocco, and they are doing it again with the obsolete ...