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’ve said it before and we’ll say it again - the hot hatch segment is one of the most effervescent on the performance side of the industry. A few of these mad hatches have entered sportscar ...

Volkswagen's performance-oriented R brand kicked off with the fourth-generation Volkswagen Golf R32 in 2002. In the first instance, R models came with six-cylinder naturally aspirated lumps.

Lots of new cars offer multiple wheel sizes, but which should you pick? Bigger wheels look cool, but wheel and tire size has a huge effect on ride, handling, and noise. And unfortunately with wheels, ...

I recently had a chance to sort of drive 2022 MK8 Golf R and came away pretty impressed. From what I hear about the MK8 GTI, it's going to be an improvement over the current car in just about every ...

With the new generation Volkswagen Golf GTI getting ready to break cover, Mountune has released a bundle of upgrades for the outgoing model that makes it more powerful than the 300 PS (296 HP / 221 kW ...

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 ...