The all-wheel-drive R may be quicker from a dig, but from a roll over the half mile, the Clubsport easily beats it and the ...

with the introduction of the updated Mk8 - the Mk8.5, to you and me - it has reached 265hp; hardly a novel number for the MQB-underpinned GTI broadly speaking (the Mk7 Clubsport delivered the same ...

Life hasn’t been easy for the Mk8 Golf GTI. After the heights of the Mk7, which was superbly rounded and one of the best GTIs there’s ever been, things came tumbling down when Volkswagen ...

but against the old GTI Performance five-door manual (the closest match) the Mk8 is just 4kg heavier. In this era, that has to go down as a win given the ever-increasing safety and kit count of ...

But before the updated version lands - notably absent of a manual gearbox, despite our protests - I spent a final week with the pre-facelift Mk8 GTI to see whether we'll miss it or not ...

The Volkswagen Golf GTI is a favorite among the Autoblog staff. Until recently, one among us owned a fifth-generation model. The current Mk7 is a great car, but it's getting along in years.

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According to its maker, the Euro GTI Mk8.5 can accelerate to 62 mph in an estimated 5.9 seconds, shaving a few tenths off the ...

Our images show how the new GTI will take the Mk8 Golf’s conservative silhouette and pump it up with a deeper front bumper housing C-shaped LED running lights, lower side sills and a rear ...

Sportier versions of the Mk8 also arrived with haptic touch-sensitive buttons on the steering wheel too. They were utterly dreadful and combined with the laggy touchscreen they let the GTI down ...

New entry-level 1.0-litre petrol engine now on sale Golf Mk8 available in Life, Style, and R-Line trim levels GTI, GTD, GTE and R performance models to launch later in 2020 The 2020 Volkswagen ...