In 1976, Volkswagen created the “hot hatch” with the MK1 Golf GTI. Since then, many competitors have come and gone, but the little GTI has evolved into the seventh generation you see here. Though the ...

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My year with the 2015 Volkswagen GTI Performance Package flew by. I tried a number of different performance parts, took it on road trips, and drove it on the track, but most importantly, I lived with ...

Bengt Halvorson April 25, 2013 Comment Now! We're hustling along in the all-new Mk7 Volkswagen GTI, on a tightly curved back road in mountainous Southern France. Just as traffic opens up and I can see ...

This car has excellent features: sport mode, paddle shifters, leather seats, moon roof, rain-sensing windshield wipers, rear view camera, etc. It is great on gas, has plenty of space, and is a blast ...

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 ...

In my unending quest to find an affordable and exciting car, the VW Golf GTI has always been in the top three choices. Born in 1974 as a replacement for the massively popular Beetle, the Golf ...

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 ...

It is telling of course that the chief joy of getting back in the Mk7 Golf GTI is just sitting in it, gleefully operating the major controls. Believe it or not, the car was not exactly feted for its ...

The Fast and the Furious films have moved far beyond their humble street racing origins over the past two decades. Regardless, there’s still a huge amount of love for the cars of the original film, ...