This is certainly the case with Jorge Goncalves' '96 Golf VR6. The 29 year-old bought it ... no longer houses them and he didn't upgrade to Mk4-style headlights. Despite this, Jorge said, "I ...

He started with a Mk3 GTI, then moved on to a Mk2 GTI 8v before ending up in a Mk4 GTI 1.8T ... While he lusted after a VR6, when a '95 Golf 2.0 turbo came along, Ryan jumped at the opportunity.

At the intersection of fun, affordability, and practicality sits the hot hatch. These small, usually FWD runabouts have been the preferred performance cars of the everyman for decades now, and the ...

VW cast a wide net and landed a bountiful consumer catch with the MK4 GTI. Road & Track By 2001, the MK4 Golf platform was the ... turbocharged inline-four and VR6 powerplants were a full-stop ...

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 ... of the VR5 and VR6-engined models.

Now, in the Golf’s 50th year, with the manual GTI dead and with ... there was a lot to like about the VR6. Indeed, such was the reputation established by it that the Mk4 Golf carried on with ...

Over time VW steadily improved the Mk4 GTI (though we had to wait for the Mk5 Golf before the GTI fully ... with a new version of VW’s VR6 engine (a 15-degree V6 in which both banks of cylinders ...