Volkswagen has long been held responsible for making the hot hatch popular, and for the past few decades, it has produced some of the most fun small cars around. The USA missed out on most of them, ...

HIGHS Sophisticated inside and out, effortless performance, class-leading livability. LOWS Pricier than the already great Golf GTI, stick-shift model is significantly slower than the automatic, too ...

We'll be the first to admit we can't get fully behind the new Volkswagen Golf R (or the GTI, for that matter). That's because, like the ID.4, the Golf R and GTI have an utterly intolerable ...

Since 1998, Steve has been evaluating every new vehicle that comes to market – from Mitsubishi to McLaren. As the station’s Automotive Editor, Drive Time with Steve Hammes began as a weekly newscast ...

The 2024 Volkswagen Golf R offers an impressive performance pedigree. Its 2.0-liter turbo four makes 315 horsepower and 280 pound-feet of torque when paired to its 6-speed manual transmission. That ...

The Volkswagen Golf R is not the paper champion of the hot-hatch segment. Others in the field might make more horsepower or put down a faster quarter-mile drag time. That could lead some bench-racers ...

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...

Antuan started out in the automotive industry the old-fashioned way, by turning wrenches in a driveway and picking up speeding tickets. He now has nearly 20 years of expertise and experience behind ...

Pricing for the Golf GTI Edition 50 starts at 54,540 euros in Germany; this special edition model will not be sold in the ...

Slated to make its official debut on May 31, the new Volkswagen Golf R 333 brings unique gold paint and some performance adjustments to the all-wheel-drive hot hatch. The short teaser doesn't feature ...

We saw the MkVIII Volkswagen Golf GTI reveal earlier this year, and everyone knew the next-gen 2022 Golf R was just around the corner. Now, it is finally here, and the kick-ass new Golf R is of course ...