Mat Watson and company are back with another interesting three-way drag race. On this occasion, the contenders all wear Volkswagen and Golf badges. Be that as it may, not all Golfs are created equal.

If you want to take your VW Golf GTI MK7 to proper hyper-hatch territory, then you will like Mountune52’s new Stage 2-plus upgrade solution. The new kit is the most advanced power upgrade that ever ...

From its humble beginnings in 1976 to the present day, the Volkswagen Golf GTI has consistently set the benchmark for practical performance.

The roofless Golf with 503 horsepower makes a surprising return.

More often behind his keyboard than on the road, you can still catch him on the auto show floor, harassing engineers to understand what lies beneath the pretty body work. As you can see from the photo ...

If the Volkswagen Golf GTI is the benchmark by which other hot hatches are judged, then the latest Mk7 must be the ultimate expression of the art form. And while some people might argue that the Mk7 ...

Still unconfirmed as a production model, the near-finished seventh-generation Golf GTI just hit the Paris Motor Show floor. Volkswagen isn’t ready to call it the model that will make it to production, ...

The mid-cycle refresh has become an industry standard for car companies keeping a car model around for five to six years. What that refresh includes is anything but standardized, ranging from minor ...

For most hot hatch enthusiasts, the VW Golf GTI TCR is the Mk7 Golf to have – at least until the new-generation model arrives. Sure, the Golf R may accelerate more quickly and offer more grip, but the ...

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...

After finding out that the stock 2015 Golf GTI is a freak of nature with well above the claimed horsepower output, we delved a little deeper and found something even better, a David versus Goliath ...

I have a very distant, decade-old memory of driving the entry-level Mk7 Golf GTI when it had 220hp and a manual gearbox, and thinking that while it didn’t make for a deeply thrilling hot hatch - ...