The Volkswagen Golf GTI is a favorite among the Autoblog staff. Until recently, one among us owned a fifth-generation model. The current Mk7 is a great car, but it's getting along in years.
The Mk8 GTI’s awful haptic steering wheel buttons have also been replaced with old-style physical alternatives, thankfully. But based on our experience with a new Golf R in Europe last week ...
The Mk8 Golf GTI has been taken off sale as we await the Mk8.5, but it was priced from just under £40,000 when it was available – a healthy sum given the base GTI's relatively tame power ...
The legendary VW Golf compact car is ready to arrive in Australia this spring - the refreshed 8.5 generation needed quite a long time to traverse the ocean ...
April arrival locked in for updated 2025 Golf, now with reworked infotainment screen and steering wheel buttons.
Power climbed from the Mk7 GTI Performance’s 242bhp at 5000-6200rpm to 286bhp at 5400-6400rpm, while torque peaked at 280lb ...
But the eighth-generation (Mk8) Golf GTI never quite hit the sweet spot. Sure, it was fun to drive, but it also suffered from some frustrating quirks – namely a fiddly infotainment system and an ...