These refreshed hot hatchbacks no longer offer manual transmissions and carry starting prices of $33,670 for the GTI and $48,325 for the Golf R.

“All of my fun cars have been yellow – the Mk1 GTI, Mk2 ‘PostGolf’ and TT RS – so I was dreaming of getting a yellow Mk8 R, but Volkswagen only offered black, white and blue. Then my guy ...

As we were driving the Golf GTI TCR, VW was poised to pull the covers off the Mk8 Golf. Anyone else seen ‘Seconds from Disaster’ before? So the Golf GTI TCR really was a proper sendoff – a ...

Hiding within the eighth-generation Golf GTI was a truly great hot hatch. Yet it was one that didn’t get the praise it deserved owing to some errors made by Volkswagen on the Mk8 Golf as a whole.

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 ...