Volkswagen Golf News
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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.
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Time machine test drive: 1984 VW Rabbit GTI sowed the seeds of the hot hatchA drive in a 1984 Volkswagen Rabbit GTI shows the first hot hatch wasn't so hot, but it sure was fun.
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2022 Volkswagen Golf R spy shots and video
Volkswagen's next-generation Golf R has been spotted and confirmed to be making its way to the U.S. next year.
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Deep dive: Volkswagen GTI history
There's now been seven generations of the Volkswagen Golf GTI, and an eighth is just around the corner.
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2022 Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR spy shots and video
A hardcore version of the recently revealed Mk8 Volkswagen Golf GTI has been spotted.
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Deep dive: The 2022 Volkswagen Golf GTI will be quicker, more digital, still plaid
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.
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Volkswagen looks set to follow a tried-and-tested performance path for its next Golf R, and we aren't complaining.
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New Volkswagen Golf GTI arrives with more power and tech, same old charm
The next-generation Volkswagen Golf GTI will have more power and more digital screens in its familiar hot hatch package.
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Volkswagen just rolled out an electric Golf R
VW's battery-electric Golf eR1 previews a zero-emission future for the hot hatchback.
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2021 Volkswagen Golf GTI spy shots and video
The latest prototypes for the new Golf GTI are wearing barely any camouflage gear indicating that the debut can't be far.
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Volkswagen R looks to the future
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...
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New VW Golf revealed but remains uncertain for US
While the standard Golf isn't yet confirmed for the U.S., enthusiasts favorites like the Golf GTI and Golf R are definitely coming.
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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 to VW's design team in charge of fabrics and colors at the age of 28, she contributed these two elements of interior design that have since become staples of the iconic hot hatch. Liljequist's personal aesthetic favored black and white patterns, but she went out of her way to embrace color at a time...
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New Golf to debut Oct. 24 but might only arrive in US as GTI, R
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...
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2020 Volkswagen Golf GTE spy shots
The plug-in hybrid version of the next-generation Mk8 Volkswagen Golf has been spotted.
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Golf R dropped from 2020 Volkswagen Golf lineup
The Volkswagen Golf will only be available in standard, e-Golf and GTI guises for 2020 in the United States.
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Volkswagen pares down Golf lineup, SportWagen and Alltrack to die
The Volkswagen Gold SportWagen and Alltrack will die after 2019 as the brand moves away from wagons and toward SUVs.
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VW Golf GTI Aurora concept has hologram-controlled stereo
Volkswagen is thinking of the future with a hologram-controlled 3,000-watt stereo system in its Golf GTI Aurora concept car.
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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.
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New VW Golf's digital dash previewed
A new generation of the Volkswagen Golf is just around the corner and its digital dash has just been previewed.
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VW Golf reportedly dead in US after current generation, GTI and Golf R live on
Volkswagen is reportedly eliminating the standard Golf in the U.S. to concentrate on the performance models of its compact hatchback.
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400-horsepower VW Golf R reportedly back on the table
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.
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400-hp Volkswagen Golf R dead, boss says customers "don't want it"
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...
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2020 Volkswagen Golf spy shots
Prototypes for a redesigned Volkswagen Golf, the eighth generation of the popular nameplate, has been spotted. The car enters production in June and should be in local showrooms early next year, meaning we'll likely see it as a 2020 model—unless VW decides to delay it for the U.S. like it did...
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