After daily driving our Golf GTI for nearly a year, we’re excited for the 2025 refresh—with one exception. Eight months in ...

Despite piling on the miles the past few months in our yearlong 2023 Volkswagen Golf GTI test car, we're still getting used ...

As a special send-off for the manual transmission, all trims with that transmission will get a new GTI 380 equipment ... intensive 8-inch screen but retains tiny volume and tuning knobs, so ...

Volkswagen's upcoming electrified GTI hot hatch will remain front-wheel drive only—a driving layout that's defined the Golf ...

For the 2025 refresh—sometimes referred to as the Mk 8.5 ... The GTI’s 3183-pound curb weight remains one of the best reasons to choose it over the heavier all-wheel-drive Golf R (which ...

While physical volume and tuning knobs are welcomed over ... Opting for the base Golf GTI means life with the smaller 8.3-inch touchscreen, which is free of built-in navigation.

Credit to Volkswagen for not only listening when the world told it that the Mk 8 Golf’s user interface wasn’t good, but acting upon that feedback. If the 2025 Golf GTI were a video game ...

Volkswagen wasn’t long bringing the facelifted Golf 8.5 to market, and neither was the new GTI. So can it prove to be the remedy it needed? The GTI ushers in many of the changes seen elsewhere ...

Volkswagen provided accommodation so Ars could drive the Golf GTI. Ars does not accept ... it continues to get a combined 27 mpg (8.7 L/100 km). The GTI remains resolutely front-wheel drive ...

The Mk 8.5 Volkswagen Golf GTI’s steering wheel with physical buttons, which is similar to those in other gas-powered VWs. Adam Ismail In other words, Volkswagen would’ve had to design a new ...

Approval of the Clean Fuels 2 act will serve as catalyst for the introduction of the Golf 8.5 GTI by 2027. Image: Volkswagen Ahead of the official South African launch of the facelift Golf 8.5 ...

Despite piling on the miles the past few months in our yearlong 2023 Volkswagen Golf GTI test car ... the luxury of volume and tuning knobs by virtue of its base 8.0-inch touchscreen, the ...