Congrats to the Volkswagen Golf, MotorTrend's 2026 Car of the Year! The GTI and R performance variants received the honor - besting a field of 14 contenders. It's the Golf's third time in its ...

The GTI first earned our Car of the Year trophy in 1985, back when we awarded separate Golden Calipers for domestic and imported models. Thirty years later, the seventh-generation Golf lineup, which ...

The 2025 Volkswagen Golf GTI and Golf R received a midcycle refresh that is more impactful than mild. Indeed, VW listened to critics and delivered meaningful updates like sharper tech, smarter driver ...

The prospect of a five-pot Golf GTI has resurfaced - what better time to revisit VW's knack for special editions? It’s silly season at the Nurburgring right now. Every day new spy pics appear in the ...

If you were to look at one of the major differences between the Volkswagen GTI and the Honda Civic Type R, it would be their transmissions – but there’s more. If you were to compare the Volkswagen ...

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And that is why we went about diving into what these two siblings offer. Both are refreshed for 2025, yet their respective identities remain unchanged at the core. And choosing one over the other is ...

This VW Golf MK5 may look tame, but under the hood? A 2.5L turbocharged beast that sounds like an RS3 and pulls like one too — only this time, it’s FWD. Tuned to perfection and built for surprise ...

Ahead of its 50 th anniversary celebration next year, Volkswagen debuted the commemorative Edition 50 of the Golf GTI this past weekend on the eve of the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring. The most powerful ...

Meet the Golf GTI Edition 50. We already knew it was Volkswagen’s fastest ever production car around the Nürburgring in the hands of, er, the extremely handy Benny Leuchter, and now we discover it’s ...

Volkswagen has unveiled its new Golf GTI Edition 50. Built to celebrate the German hot hatch's golden anniversary, it is the fastest and most powerful production GTI model to date, thanks to a ...