CAR magazine's Angus MacKenzie looks back at 50 years of the landmark VW hatchback – and explains why it nearly didn't happen ...

The Volkswagen Golf R is as close as the company will ever come to a halo car. The very top of the tree of its main outlet ...

Volkswagen’s Mk8 Golf R wasn’t particularly well received ... Mk8.5 facelift that has been applied to all models, including the new GTI Clubsport. Scan the specs and you’ll notice that ...

The new logo suggests the GTI will live on ... the updated, eighth-generation Golf GTI ‒ a Mk8.5 in VW-speak – is the last of ...

Now the Mk8.5 Golf ... than the VW (from £42,155). And a Smurf blue, six-speed manual Focus might be harder to justify (to those who we must justify these things too) than a smart new Golf ...

Expensive, and that’s before options; user interface is a mess; not actually that engaging There have been great Volkswagen Golf GTIs ... forward Mk8 has a lot to live up to. New for the ...

The Golf Mk8 typifies Volkswagen's approach, because in many ways it's merely an evolution of the Mk7 that came before, but features enough new tech and design advances to mark it out as something ...

The new Volkswagen Golf GTI is not electric and it’s not a hybrid ... which arrived in 2021 to hardly universal acclaim. It suffered from the Mk8 Golf’s general cabin tech problems, as well as a ...

Volkswagen Group Africa has confirmed to CAR magazine that the Mk8.5 Golf 1.4TSI is heading ... derivative is also employed by the (Golf-based) T-Roc and new Tiguan, the latter of which we sampled ...

Like all Golf 8.5s, the new R will feature slightly slimmer and more angular LED headlights together with a slightly redesigned lower bumper. In the case of the new R, its bumper opening is now ...