Most enthusiasts have used the Volkswagen Golf in its performance variants as the benchmark for the “hot hatch” category. The 2019 Golf GTI is the metric by which all others will likely be compared, ...

Need somebody to bore you with ideal bore to stroke ratios, or the intricacies of how variable valve timing works? Ask Andrei and watch the hours roll by… He’s also quite a strange bloke who never ...

The term “hot hatch,”aka a high-performance version of a mass-produced hatchback — has been part of the automotive lexicon for almost four decades. And while there may be a variety of competition ...

The 2019 Volkswagen Golf GTI hot hatch, a performance model of the Golf hatchback sedan, has earned a Top Safety Pick rating in testing by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, provided it is ...

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 ...

Two of the hottest front-wheel drive hatches in the market, the Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR and Hyundai i30 N Performance, were subjected to a timed lap to see which one is faster on a track by Germany’s ...

This one is going to upset people in both camps, but we just had to share the first-ever drag race between the new Jetta GLI and its older sister, the Golf GTI. Follow us: As you may have heard, the ...

The sinusoidal popularity of hatchbacks in America can be difficult to understand. Sometimes it’s up, sometimes it’s down, but it never actually dies—it just hides in the shadows of subculture before ...

Light a few candles. The Volkswagen Rabbit GTI has been resurrected, though now it is called the 2019 Golf GTI Rabbit Edition. As ever, it is a hatchback performance model of what basically is an ...

This is the opening to an iconic 1980s Volkswagen commercial. The TV spot’s musical theme was set to the 1964 tune G.T.O. by Ronnie and the Daytonas. The original song’s Pontiac-themed verses were ...