It's hard to believe, but the Golf GTI is an old hand. The little hatchback that started the hot hatch genre back in the 1970s is now 50 years old. To celebrate, Volkswagen has debuted a new, special ...

This year Volkswagen marks 50 years of the Golf GTI, and it’s doing it with the fastest production VW to lap the Nurburgring Nordschleife. The new Golf GTI Edition 50 will be officially revealed on ...

Eyeing the definitive hot hatch this May? Volkswagen has a special lease offer specific to the Golf GTI SE for under $500 per month. The 2026 VW Golf GTI offers three trims, priced $34,540 to $42,480.

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 ...

Few nameplates have spent half a century flirting so openly with insanity without ever fully giving in. Volkswagen’s GTI is one of them, and now the company has released a huge photo gallery of its ...

The Volkswagen Golf GTI Edition 50, now the most powerful and quickest front-drive Volkswagen to ever circle the Nürburgring. The Golf GTI Edition 50 is the most powerful front-wheel-drive GTI ...

2026 marks 50 years of the Volkswagen Golf GTI, and what started out as a skunkworks project has come to define the entire hot hatchback genre. It may not be the first hot hatch ever made, but the ...

Road & Track loved the way the eighth-generation Volkswagen GTI drove when it was launched back in 2020, a shifty hot hatch with enough dynamic range to be entertaining on a racetrack yet tame enough ...

When Volkswagen introduced the first Golf GTI in Europe in 1976, it might not have been the first hot hatchback, but it quickly became the gold standard version. Unlike in America, where big cars were ...

When the Golf GTI first debuted in 1976, it wasn’t just a car; it was a democratization of performance. Fifty years later, Volkswagen is celebrating that "hot hatch" legacy by breaking the digital ...

Fast Nürburgring corner tests put this VW GTI wagon in a performance-focused setting, highlighting how a practical wagon performs through quick turns on a demanding circuit. The title points to a ...

Chase Bierenkoven is a gearhead and writer based in Denver, Colorado. As the family lore goes, Chase's first word was "truck." Cars have been a problem ever since. By 16, Chase was spending his ...