Through eight generations over 40 years, the Volkswagen Golf GTI has defined affordable fun, and the Golf R has embellished the package with more power and all-wheel drive. That their hatchback bodies ...

They say the worst day of your life starts normally. Today, it started with Volkswagen announcing that the manual transmission in the Golf GTI and Golf R will be officially dead after 2024, with one ...

While the Honda Civic Type R skews more toward the more hardcore enthusiast, the Golf R has more of a grown-up disposition.

2024 will be the final year for manual-transmission-equipped Golf R and Golf GTI models in the United States. The GTI 380 package comes standard on manual-transmission Golf GTI models. The ...

Volkswagen rolled out the new Golf in January, and ever since they've been dropping performance variants like a striptease for gearheads. The Golf R Mk8.5 is about to hit the streets, and it's packing ...

Volkswagen sent out a press release this morning about the 2024 Golf GTI 380 Edition. It contains the biggest "oh, by the way" in the history of enthusiast cars: that the 380 is being built to ...

Volkswagen’s top Golf, the all-wheel-drive Golf R, is getting a face-lift for the 2025 model year. The refreshed model features tweaked front and rear styling, new wheel designs, an updated ...

New leadership at VW reportedly wants to cut 10 billion euros in costs by 2026. Having one transmission in a car instead of two is a great way to cut costs. And particularly in that environment, it’s ...

VW is inching closer to the launch of the revised Mk8.5 Golf R and has just dropped some new details about the model after inviting a bunch of journalists to drive the new model in prototype guise in ...

The 2025 Volkswagen Golf R is no longer just an all-wheel-drive GTI-plus hot hatch. Volkswagen pushed the R to a new level with the introduction of the torque-vectoring rear differential that arrived ...