Vik is the Co-Founder and former Editor at MotorAuthority, a leading U.S. website covering performance and luxury cars. Since 2025, he has contributed to CarBuzz, blending his engineering background ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Kyle has written professionally across the motorsport and motoring world since graduating from Plymouth University in 2018, and has acted as the MotoGP editor for Motorsport Week and as a Features ...

Alina has been enthusiastic about vehicles her entire life, and even from an early age found herself itching to get behind the wheel. Through high school and college, she could be found reading ...

Volkswagen is readying a big birthday party for the Golf GTI, which will turn 50 next year. As a result, it has prepped a special edition, deemed as the fastest production GTI ever, and it was this ...

Watch the VW Golf 7 R unleash its turbocharged power on the Autobahn, accelerating from 0 to 230 km/h with lightning-quick DSG shifts and all-wheel grip from 4MOTION. This full-throttle run highlights ...

Watch the VW Golf 7 R unleash full-throttle acceleration from 0 to 230 km/h on the German Autobahn. Powered by a turbocharged TFSI engine, paired with the lightning-fast DSG gearbox and 4MOTION ...

The VW Golf GTI has earned its place as one of the most iconic hot hatches in history, but even this legend isn’t immune to the electric revolution. Just after Volkswagen announced it’s working on an ...

Carmakers have a lot of methods for naming their vehicles. Some keep things simple, such Lexus, which uses two-letter abbreviations to tell exactly what each vehicle is. For example, the Lexus LS is a ...

Volkswagen provided accommodation so Ars could drive the Golf GTI. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Even in an alternate timeline in which the average new car didn’t cost more than $50,000 ...

Peter earned a Bachelor of Archeology and Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and has since joined his love of driving and riding with storytelling. His voice is full of southern ...

We recently sampled these changes in an unusual but very rad way: Volkswagen tossed us the keys to the Golf R and told us to tear up an ice track in northern Sweden. In these conditions we couldn’t ...