Nope, we still aren’t done with fast VW Golfs just yet. There aren’t many performance car nameplates that make it to 50, and the GTI’s half century looks all the more impressive in 2025 given the ...

Check out what Jeff Gunn does to clean up the MK4's rep with his evil-looking 2003 Volkswagen GTI VR6. Get all the info here in this month's issue of Eurotuner Magazine.

By all accounts, the new chassis and its accompanying 1.8-liter turbocharged inline-four and VR6 powerplants were a full-stop success. ... This isn't a recommendation to go out and buy a MK4 GTI.

Even though the styling is a bit plain for a GTI, I am a huge fan of the MK4 GTI's, ... Have owned BMW, VR6 Jetta, etc. GTI VR6 hands down the most enjoyable, reliable car I have ever owned.

Mk3 Volkswagen GTI VR6 Driver's Edition - Jason Fuller. ... To update the interior, Jason went the extra mile and fitted a Mk4 dash as well as a Mk5 GTI steering wheel - no easy task.

Buyer's tastes were evolving, and the company wanted to make sure it could offer a GTI that could appeal to the largest amount of people possible. The result was the VR6-powered Mk3.

If hopes were higher for the Mk4 GTI that arrived in 1997, ... if still reined-in to avoid stepping on the toes of the VR5 and VR6-engined models. And it was still a stretch to call it a hot hatch.

The Mk4 GTI was widely-recognised as one of the worst Golf GTIs in the car’s 40-odd year history; ... The VR6 engine booms a lot from inside the cabin but sings more tunefully from the outside, ...

While some speculated it would use a 3.6-liter VR6 engine and carry the name R36, it instead packed a more potent version of the GTI's FSI 2.0-liter turbo four. Here, it was called the Golf R.

The bare acceleration figures still look impressive today, despite a fairly chunky kerb weight (a Mk7 Golf R is 76kg lighter). We timed an R32 at 6.4 seconds to 60mph, and while the VR6 doesn't ...

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 ...