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 ...

Even though the styling is a bit plain for a GTI, I am a huge fan of the MK4 GTI's, especially the more aggressive styled ones like the rare '337', 25th Anniversary Edition, or the MK4 R32!

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I searched over many months until I found a low-kilometre 2003 Mk4 Golf GTI, with full service history, in silver and with two mature owners (no P platers). It was registered and always garaged ...

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.

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 ...