Over the ensuing decades, it's always offered a manual transmission—heck, for the first years, it only came with a stick ...

The VW Golf GTI is perhaps the most iconic hot hatch of all time, but not even it can avoid the age of electrification.

VW CEO Thomas Schäfer told Autocar that the carmaker is preparing “a whole group of GTI” models that will be “mind-blowing.” He has already driven a prototype GTI EV, which he called “a monster car,” ...