The 2024 Volkswagen Golf range of compact hatchbacks is made up of the GTI and R models. Both are excellent and exceptional.

Nearly fifteen years ago, the Beetle came close to having its very own R version. Here's the story of the VW hot hatch that ...

The GTI Clubsport delivers keen drivers a more rewarding package, while the Golf R is the unburstable all-weather all-rounder. When it comes to practicality, there’s nothing in it, with equal ...

The GTI tends to get the lion's share of the love from VW hot hatch enthusiasts, but its meatier sibling also represents an ...

In its 87-year history, Volkswagen has never closed a factory in Germany. While VW is officially silent on the developments, ...

The Volkswagen Golf R is as close as the company will ever come to a halo car. The very top of the tree of its main outlet ...

As before there’s an even punchier GTI Clubsport that sits above it with 296bhp, while the four-wheel drive Golf R is slightly more powerful again. Some may lament the absence of a manual ...

As with every Golf GTI since the start of the millennium the new GTI Clubsport features the 2-litre turbocharged EA888 four-cylinder engine, producing 296bhp and 273lb ft, the same as the Mk8 ...

You don't get the same level of traction as that offered by the more powerful four-wheel-drive Golf R, but Volkswagen's electronic limited-slip differential lock ensures the front-wheel-drive GTI ...

The sharpest, fastest Golf GTI to date. Conceived to celebrate the hot Golf’s 40th anniversary in 2016, the Clubsport Edition 40 receives a power boost and significant chassis revisions that ...