With the Mk8.5 Golf, Volkswagen made one or two missteps that made it a less desirable package than its predecessor overall.

Perhaps nothing demonstrates what’s happened to hot hatches in recent years better than the evolution of the Golf GTI ...

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 ...

The Mk8 Golf GTI was met with some puzzlement over its firmer-riding ... You don't get the same level of traction as that offered by the more powerful four-wheel-drive Golf R, but Volkswagen's ...

Volkswagen’s Mk8 Golf R wasn’t particularly well received, with lacklustre dynamics and infuriating touch controls putting it a step behind its predecessor. For the recent update Volkswagen ...

This Golf R benefits from the proceeds of the Mk8.5 facelift that covered the whole Golf range in 2024. New LED headlights, revised rear light clusters and an illuminated VW badge on the nose mark ...

What’s new for the Mk8.5? Well spotted ... mesh to expose the radiators (and the gaudy illuminated VW badge) rob the Golf R of what little dignified subtlety it had left. Happily, the new ...

VW’s updated Golf R driven► Hatch and estate versions tested► Still one of the ultimate daily driver cars? The VW Golf R is back, freshly tweaked as part of VW’s efforts to facelift and update its ...

However, you can get the hot R and R Black Edition in estate ... the 2024 Driver Power survey thought of the VW Golf. These impressions are of the Mk8 car rather than the revised Mk8.5 version ...

This car exists to fill the gap between the standard GTI (261bhp, £39k) and the four-wheel drive Golf R (326bhp, £44k). This isn’t really a huge price gap, and especially now VW has deleted ...

This, essentially, is the Mk8.5 Golf in GTI Clubsport form ... with the regular GTI sitting below and the Golf R still the flagship above. The VW Group’s perennial EA888 2.0-litre turbo features ...