Go behind the scenes as MotorTrend’s test team pushes the 2026 Volkswagen Golf R through acceleration, braking, and handling evaluations to see how it performs at the limit.

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The 2025 Volkswagen Golf GTI Mk8.5 refines one of the world's most iconic hot hatches by addressing many of the criticisms ...

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Volkswagen’s heavily revamped electric family hatch gets a new name, a much smarter interior, proper buttons and up to 391 ...

The Volkswagen Golf GTI has long been regarded as the benchmark hot hatch, and the updated Golf GTI 8.5 continues that tradition. In this video, the latest GTI is taken onto Germany's unrestricted ...

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Eyeing the definitive hot hatch this May? Volkswagen has a special lease offer specific to the Golf GTI SE for under $500 per month. The 2026 VW Golf GTI offers three trims, priced $34,540 to $42,480.

The Golf GTI didn’t just join the hot hatch segment, it invented it. Half a century on, plenty of people assumed emissions rules and electrification would finish the format off. They were wrong. The ...

The first electric GTI is finally here. Volkswagen unveiled the ID. Polo GTI, a sporty 222-horsepower EV hot hatch that will start at around $45,000. 50 years after launching the first Golf GTI in ...

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After five decades, Volkswagen confirmed the first electric GTI, the ID. Polo GTI will make its debut on Friday, May 15. When will Volkswagen’s first electric GTI debut? It’s been almost three years ...