We recently sampled these changes in an unusual but very rad way: Volkswagen tossed us the keys to the Golf R and told us to tear up an ice track in northern Sweden. In these conditions we couldn’t ...

Just under five years ago, Spanish motoring publication km77 found the 2020 Volkswagen Golf 1.5 eTSI a bit underwhelming in the moose test. Back then, it couldn't do better than 69 kilometers an hour ...

The Golf is powered by a smooth over­head-cam, 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine, equipped for 1988 with Volkswagen's new ...

Of course, the best bit about the Golf R is its duality. It’ll take a pounding on track – over four sessions and 1h 20min, it ...

In recent years, the Volkswagen Golf R has become somewhat of an odd proposition. It’s deservedly renowned for its versatility—a comfortable super tourer among hot hatches one minute, and an apex ...

The Volkswagen Golf R popularized the hot-hatch genre of sporty, higher-performance versions of more-pedestrian models, starting with the transformation of the European Golf in the 1970s and the ...

Since picking up his first set of MicroMachine toy cars as a toddler, Chris knew he had a passion for automobiles embedded in his soul. It wasn't until he started flipping through car magazines a ...

A golden jubilee for the Volkswagen Golf GTI. To celebrate, Jeremy Taylor and Jessica Talbot-Ponsonby drive the new R, the ...