A week or so ago, I drove to M1 Concours in Pontiac, MI to drive the Mk8 GTI on the facility's road course and on an autocross course they put together for the event. I drove both the manual and ...

The bad news is that we won't get the new Mk8 Volkswagen GTI in America until the second half of 2022. But, it's only bad news because the newest version of the original hot hatch sounds like it's ...

But when I discovered this base-model 2023 Volkswagen Golf GTI S cost almost $9,000 less than the Autobahn trim we tested ...

Last time I was at Jalopnik, I covered the GTI/Golf R beat, writing about the MK7 and MK8 GTI and the MK8 Golf R. But, I never had an opportunity to drive them back to back to back until recently ...

(Thus, we'll be getting the GTI and the next Golf R but none of the more basic Golfs.) The Mk8 GTI is a gentle evolution of the outgoing model, and it uses the same Modularer Querbaukasten ...

The GTI has just had its midlife facelift, making this generation the Mk8.5 if you speak Golfnerd. Even if you don't, you're probably familiar with the idea. But to recap, in 1976, someone at VW ...

As a result, VW Motorsports left behind its MK8 Golf GTI TCR, a homologated model for the TCR Touring Car series, before it could be fully finished or even hit the grid. With help from Orchid Euro ...

In 2024, exactly five decades after the Mk1 Golf hit the road, Volkswagen is addressing these complaints with this: the Mk8.5 GTI. It arrives as part of the Golf’s mid-life update and its last ...

Like a German train schedule, Volkswagen is right on time with its mid-cycle facelift for its Mk8 Golf and GTI. With that facelift comes predictably tweaked looks, some improved interior ...

As with every Golf GTI since the start of the millennium the new GTI Clubsport features the 2-litre turbocharged EA888 four-cylinder engine, producing 296bhp and 273lb ft, the same as the Mk8 ...