With a better interior and tweaked dynamics, the GTI is once again one of the best all-rounders on the market. I don’t know ...

Still, it’s often with the mid-life facelift that a Golf GTI really comes alive. Perhaps it’s because GTIs are all about ...

The endeavor was it seems a little way short of a success, the Mk8 Golf R underwhelming on almost all fronts by comparison to the evergreen Mk7. Now, VW has updated it, attempting to inject more ...

It was 1988, he was 17, and what he really wanted to be driving was a Volkswagen ... Mk8.5 – and incentives started to be advertised,” Skelton says. “I drove both the GTI and the Golf ...

Here at the 2025 New York International Auto Show, I can say with confidence that VW's done a phenomenal job with the updated Mk8.5 Golf GTI. It's the direct answer to all the criticism ...

We’re yet to review ... on emissions, VW has a quoted fuel economy figure of 941mpg, and an emissions state of 6g/km. Dimensions are pretty much the same as the previous Golf Mk8: the eHybrid ...

As we were driving the Golf GTI TCR, VW was poised to pull the covers off the Mk8 Golf. Anyone else seen ‘Seconds from Disaster’ before? So the Golf GTI TCR really was a proper sendoff – a ...

When did you last see a Volkswagen Golf R Estate on the road? I’m not talking about the Mk7 (which sold well because of ridiculously cheap lease deals), but the Mk8 wagon. You just never see them.

The updated Volkswagen Golf Mk8.5 range is landing in Australia now ... Note: This is an updated version of an international launch review that was first published in September 2024.