Volkswagen Golf News

Volkswagen will follow a tried-and-tested performance path for its next Golf R, and we aren't complaining.

VW has unveiled a version of its Mk8 Golf GTI packing 296 horsepower.

From its mild-mannered, 90-horsepower roots of the 1970s to the 242-hp 2022 model, the Volkswagen GTI started the hot hatch craze and has perfected it through eight generations.

A drive in a 1984 Volkswagen Rabbit GTI shows the first hot hatch wasn't so hot, but it sure was fun.

Volkswagen's next-generation Golf R has been spotted and confirmed to be making its way to the U.S. next year.

When the eighth-generation Volkswagen Golf GTI arrives for 2022, it will feature a digital instrument cluster and a larger touchscreen. The hot hatch also gets a more potent turbo-4 engine.

The next-generation Volkswagen Golf GTI will have more power and more digital screens in its familiar hot hatch package.

VW's battery-electric Golf eR1 previews a zero-emission future for the hot hatchback.

The latest prototypes for the new Golf GTI are wearing barely any camouflage gear indicating that the debut can't be far.

Volkswagen's indisputable sport compact icon is the Golf GTI, but over the past two decades, the automaker has pushed its hot hatchback formula beyond the limits of its practical, humble roots. The result? R. R represents the pinnacle of VW performance and sporty styling, gracing many of its...

Today's Volkswagen enthusiasts take plaid seats and golf ball shift knobs for granted, but few know the story of how those two came to be part of the Golf GTI's DNA. For both, you have just one woman to thank: a porcelain painter, chocolatier and candy box designer named Gunhild Liljequist. Hired...

Marking the eighth generation of the popular hatchback, the new Golf will debut on October 24, with the reveal to take place at the car's plant in Wolfsburg, Germany. The car will be based on an upgraded version of the current-generation's MQB platform, which will boast significant improvements...

The plug-in hybrid version of the next-generation Mk8 Volkswagen Golf has been spotted.

The Volkswagen Golf will only be available in standard, e-Golf and GTI guises for 2020 in the United States.

The Volkswagen Gold SportWagen and Alltrack will die after 2019 as the brand moves away from wagons and toward SUVs.

Volkswagen announced the next-generation Golf hatchback will get 48-volt mild-hybrid technology, but it so far it's just for engines not likely headed for the U.S.

A new generation of the Volkswagen Golf is just around the corner and its digital dash has just been previewed.

Volkswagen is reportedly eliminating the standard Golf in the U.S. to concentrate on the performance models of its compact hatchback.

VW previewed a 400-horsepower Golf variant in concept form back in 2014 but the car never made production. That might not be case for the next-generation Golf due in 2020.

Just one month shy of the five-year anniversary of the reveal of the Volkswagen Golf R 400 concept, the brand has announced there are no longer plans to build a production version of the extra fiery hot hatchback. VW's R division head, Jost Capito, delivered the Golf R 400's death sentence in a...