The GTI is often credited with having started the "hot hatch" movement in early 80's. The idea was to create a car that offered all of the fun of a sports car in a much more practical package. The new ...

The touch-sensitive sliders are now at least backlit to give you a fighting chance of adjusting temperature at night. The driving ... ll want to fiddle with the GTI’s drive modes before setting ...

And inexplicably not backlit and unusable at night. It's stuff you'll get used to over time, sure, but this is a VW Golf - that used to mean peerless ergonomics - so you shouldn't have to. Fortunately ...

Expensive, before options; user interface still wonky; not actually that engaging Life hasn’t been easy for the Mk8 Golf GTI ... Indeed new for the 8 is a consistent GTI and GTI Clubsport ...

Turbocharged power gives the Golf 1.8T plenty of pep. The GTI is a perennially lauded "hot hatch," with the Golf R taking it even further up the performance ladder. Two wagon options add incredible ...