The Mk4 VW Golf GTI has a controversial reputation. In this video, I drive a well-worn version to assess its performance in ...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Golf GTi, so you'd think that after ... While you can't deny the Mk4 GTi is much larger than its Mk1 ancestor, it's not necessarily any less fun.

With three generations of GTI hot hatch production behind it, Volkswagen shed the Golf's square silhouette for a smoother and tighter design with the MK4 GTI. A design that has since grown into a ...

The Mk3 Golf GTI arrived in 1992 and was something of a pudding; heavier and less eager than its predecessor. If hopes were higher for the Mk4 GTI that arrived in 1997, they were soon dashed with ...

For the last years of the Golf Mk4 production (2001-2003), VW upgraded the GTI with a more powerful version of the same engine producing 177 hp (132 kW / 180 PS), and a six-speed manual gearbox.

Unsure as to whether buyers really preferred a hot or a merely warm Golf GTI VW decided to hedge its bets with the Mk4 model. So it launched both a normally-aspirated 125hp 1.8-litre car and a ...

Blimey, we’ve seen plenty of low-mileage cars come up for auction in recent years, but this 2002 Mk4 Volkswagen Golf GTI takes the biscuit. Now, the Mk4 may not have been the most popular GTI in ...

The Mk4 GTI, and the Golf range more generally, completely redefined expectations of quality for compact cars. Here was a car that was ostensibly just a VW Golf, yet one that made you feel a ...

Over time VW steadily improved the Mk4 GTI (though we had to wait for the Mk5 Golf before the GTI fully returned to form) but like its predecessor, the most appealing Golf came with six ...

Today, it started with Volkswagen announcing that the manual transmission in the Golf ... GTI having a great manual gearbox. Us Dubbers (read: Extreme Volkswagen Enthusiasts) don’t talk about ...