Under the Spanish sun in Barcelona, Volkswagen rolled out five decades of hot hatch royalty and one outrageous surprise. The setting was simple, but the story was anything but. This was a celebration ...

Few letters are as alluring as “GTI.” Volkswagen’s sporty version of its econo hatchback has always punched up, offering far ...

From its humble beginnings in 1976 to the present day, the Volkswagen Golf GTI has consistently set the benchmark for practical performance.

The VW Golf has been around since 1974, but it wasn’t until 1976 that Volkswagen pulled its finger out and got cracking on a performance version. The legend goes that some dedicated engineers created ...

Volkswagen will take the wraps off the updated Golf GTI Clubsport at the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring on June 1st. The most powerful FWD version of the Golf ever will benefit from a number of visual ...

Remember when cars were all about driving fun and no one cared about fuel emissions and safety standards? It may sound peculiar and possibly dangerous to our younger crowd, but the rest of us already ...

It all started when Volkswagen created a souped-up version of its front-wheel drive Golf - in 1976. That Mk1 GTI became the high-performance Golf variant. It is then that the “hot hatch” was born.

Warning: Seeing a Mk1 Volkswagen GTI in a horrid state of disrepair can cause nausea, dizziness, and heart palpitations. Thankfully, after WD Detailing found this Mk1 GTI that had been sitting in a ...

Volkswagen believes that it can make the upcoming electric version of the GTI more fun to drive than any ICE-powered model that’s come before. VW CEO Thomas Schäfer told Motor1 that the GTI EV, which ...

The market is quickly changing for the MK1 and MK2 Volkswagen Golf platforms. For years, these were considered the affordable way for younger enthusiasts to get into the Golf and GTI fraternity. As ...

This 1984 example of the much-loved Volkswagen Rabbit GTI started car enthusiasts down a path of fuel economy-conscious, utilitarian, yet fun to drive little machines that captured our hearts. "Hot ...