The all-wheel-drive R may be quicker from a dig, but from a roll over the half mile, the Clubsport easily beats it and the ...

Tim Pitt drives the updated Mk8.5 Volkswagen Golf GTI, the final iteration before this famous hot hatchback goes electric.

Volkswagen quietly filed a trademark application for a GTI badge in which the letter ‘I’ is replaced by a lightning bolt. The ...

The iconic hot hatch took on a harder edge with its eighth generation, at the expense of its intoxicating blend of everyday ...

First launched four years ago, the Mk8 wasn’t a bad car ... not indecisive touchpads – on the steering wheel spokes. Prices for the 2024 Golf GTI start from £38,900 and standard equipment ...

The Volkswagen Golf R has been around for over 20 years now, so let’s take a look at how far this performance hatchback has ...

I have a very distant, decade-old memory of driving the entry-level Mk7 Golf ... Mk8 - the Mk8.5, to you and me - it has reached 265hp; hardly a novel number for the MQB-underpinned GTI broadly ...

Find a deal The updated Volkswagen Golf Mk8.5 range will arrive in the early stages of 2025, and the hot GTI variant has seen a big power bump as part of the range refresh. We’re talking an extra 15kW ...

Like the rest of the Mk8 Golf family, the GTI was hobbled with a string of ergonomic ... the return of physical buttons on the steering wheel. They take the place of the fiddly touch-sensitive ...

The more powerful GTI delivers 261bhp from ... while the R is also equipped with 4MOTION four-wheel drive. For those prioritising fuel economy, the updated Mk8 Golf is still available with a ...