In a world where the term hot hatch is thrown around with abandon, from mainstream sport compacts to more extreme performance ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1990s, Nissan got in on the act too, and not with the obvious Skyline GT-R nameplate. However, on a separate occasion, ...

The Volkswagen Golf GTI Edition 50, heralded as the most powerful GTI ever produced, is set to make its debut on UK roads in January 2026. This exclusive ...

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 ...

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 ...