Volkswagen's GTI is the dictionary definition of a Hot Hatch, and over the years that definition has been all over the Scoville scale. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe GTI is one of the hotter ones, ...

Whenever the hood of Project GTI 16V is opened, my knuckles start to bleed. I'd like to think it's a mechanical form of stigmata, a sympathetic melding of man and machine, but the truth isn't quite ...

Back when today's Nice Price or No Dice GTI was introduced, having a 16-valve engine was uncommon in its class and, hence, worth an extra badge. This one has gone way beyond just that performance ...

Despite the fact Project GTI is running at seven-eighths its potential, I have been driving the bloody hell out of it. When I thought its ownership was in jeopardy, I drove it like a man trying to out ...

It's said you can't go back, but then you see your first car being auctioned off on Bring a Trailer and you start to question that adage. Staring down at me on my laptop screen is a box-shaped piece ...

When one speaks of old Citroens from the late 1980s, early 1990s, sporty driving characteristics are not the first aspect that comes to mind. However, back in May of 1987, Citroen decided to boost the ...

This week’s confirmed pricing of the eagerly awaited Volkswagen Golf 8 GTI not only came as a surprise to many fans and observers, but in some cases also a shock. Sporting a sticker of R669 300, the ...

While Porsche 911s and E30 M3s got more and more expensive, we could always rely on cars like the Miata and older hot hatches to stay reasonably priced, things that could scratch the enthusiast itch ...

In the late Eighties the Japanese developed a small fixation with four-wheel-steer, the Mazda MX-6 and Honda Prelude both had it, and so too did Mitsubishi’s sixth generation Galant. The understated ...