With the recent news of the end of the manual transmission for the GTI and Golf R, the writing is on the wall for one of the all-time-greatest performance cars, in this configuration anyway. They'll ...

We're a little less excited to compare the sound of the Mk7 GTI to the 7.5 facelift than we were with the Leon Cupra. But this is a very important debut for the hot hatch market. When the model ...

I was one of the first eight or so Americans to drive the MK7 GTI back in April 2013. Volkswagen invited us to the South of France to test out the car on twisty mountain roads and motorways. The car ...

Full personal disclosure time: the Volkswagen Golf GTI is one of my absolute favorite cars. When VW invited me to drive the Euro-spec version of the new Mk8 alongside the outgoing Mk7 version on track ...