If you need one car to be nearly everything an enthusiast driver could possibly want it to be (efficient commuter, capable canyon carver, car-pool-friendly kid carrier, cavernous cargo hauler, ...

Few nameplates have spent half a century flirting so openly with insanity without ever fully giving in. Volkswagen’s GTI is one of them, and now the company has released a huge photo gallery of its ...

2026 marks 50 years of the Volkswagen Golf GTI, and what started out as a skunkworks project has come to define the entire hot hatchback genre. It may not be the first hot hatch ever made, but the ...

The manual transmission Volkswagen GTI went out with a fizzle instead of the bang it deserved. The last stick-shift GTI ever built was just sold unceremoniously at a dealership in Montana—no dramatic ...

You can’t buy a new Golf GTI with a manual, but this low-mileage example is the next best thing. The 2024 model year was the last one offering a manual transmission for the Golf GTI. This rare, ...

The GTI first earned our Car of the Year trophy in 1985, back when we awarded separate Golden Calipers for domestic and imported models. Thirty years later, the seventh-generation Golf lineup, which ...

From the January/February 2026 issue of Car and Driver. Losing another manual transmission frustrates us nearly as much as missing out on breakfast at Whammy Burger by three minutes. We North ...

The Golf GTI has always distinguished itself with promising performance upgrades and much sharper handling compared to the more pedestrian Golf models. Yet, the GTI always preserved the civility that ...

The Volkswagen GTI and the spicier Golf R are two of the small number of hot hatchbacks that are still on offer here in the United States. It was VW that kicked off the whole segment 50 years ago at ...

The hot hatch spent its entire life in California in the possession of the same man who recently decided to part ways with it ...