It’s no secret that we in the US have missed out on more than a few great models over the years. Emissions and crash safety regulations have played spoiler to many, leaving us no choice but to sit...
The Mk6 GLI shares a platform with a handful of other performance-oriented Volkswagen models. The shared base allowed VW to engineer a smaller amount of components for a wider range of models to keep costs low and quality high. What that resulted in was a series of well-developed systems with...
The advent of all-wheel-drive in passenger cars reshaped how automakers designed every vehicle they made, whether pedestrian or performance. Audi paved the way with their quattro and rewrote the rally rulebook simultaneously, leading every manufacturer to develop their own system or seek one out....
The Volkswagen Jetta has sat alongside the Golf since 1979 as the hatchback’s slightly larger sibling. Whether your market called it the Jetta, the Bora, or the Atlantic, VW’s small sedan has been the answer to many people’s needs. Like the golf, VW has given the Jetta a few performance variants,...
There’s a short list of vehicles that are certain to make you smile, get you around reliably, and go easy on your wallet. Somewhere near the top of the list sits VW’s pair of hotshot hatchbacks. After forty years of development, the GTI and the Golf R are refined, fun, and supremely capable in...
The United States offers a near-unparalleled space to be an automotive enthusiast. With some of the lowest gas prices on the planet, an enormous amount of aftermarket companies, and an abundance of available models to choose from, it’s genuinely tough to beat what we offer. Unfortunately, our...
Since the late seventies, the Volkswagen Golf platform has been an excellent fit for just about every household. The GTI variant shifted the humble Golf from pedestrian to performance and created its own segment that remains a hotly contested market today. These days, the Golf R reigns supreme...
The VW Golf R is the pinnacle of the Golf range. Like the GTI, the Volkswagen Golf R is all about performance blended with useability, offering a friendly hatchback chassis with turbocharged performance and good fuel mileage, but it goes beyond the GTI in its offerings. The exterior is more...
Everyday cars need a level of practicality, though that often interferes with a light curb weight—a quality every great performance car strives to have. It all depends on how it’s packaged, though, and the Volkswagen Mk7 GTI is both practical and light, not to mention quick, affordable, and...
The Mk6 Volkswagen Jetta GLI shares several parts with other high-performance VWs built on the PQ35 and MQB platforms. The standard components are reliable and tested designs that have been developed over years of GTI and GLI evolution. They also give the GLI excellent braking performance right...