As part of the celebration for the Volkswagen GTI's 50th anniversary celebrations, the brand has cleared out the cobwebs, ...

Volkswagen celebrated 50 years of GTI in Barcelona with a stunning surprise: the Gran Turismo Roadster concept brought to ...

In a bold move that signals VW’s commitment to performance, the automaker has resurrected the digital concept into a fully ...

Volkswagen celebrates 50 years of GTI by revisiting its wildest concepts, including a 641 hp W12 that never reached production ...

The quintessential hot hatch was once given W-12 power; another time, it was re-conceived as an open-top roadster.

Is the Volkswagen Golf GTI a Good Car? 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...