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You’re going to see some headlines today. Those headlines will be exciting. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves: the chances of there being a Golf R+ plug-in hybrid, as an article published by Australia’s WhichCar sugges ts, are slim to none. WhichCar’s story ( that has now been picked up by...

Spies at the Nurburgring have caught another version of the Golf R testing in Germany, and this one appears to be the Golf R. Carrying a lot of speed through the corners, this is a promising first look at a car that will carry the heavy weight of big expectations. Well-founded rumors have the...

While we know what the Mk8 Golf looks like now, we still haven’t really seen once owners have had their wicked way with it. Europe’s JMS is previewing what it plans to do with the car. Although these upgrades are all for the base Golf (which we may or may not get someday), they do give us a hint...

So many auto shows have been canceled this year, that we’re almost going through withdrawal. Fortunately, the fine folks over at VW have a plan. A virtual car show. By visiting a website set up by VW ( link! ), you too can live the experience of a European car show (albeit one without any...

Although ABT hasn’t yet upped the power, it has revealed what it would do to give the eighth generation of Golf look a little more special. The look starts out with lowering springs because “lowering is essential to create a sporty appearance,” writes the tuning house in a statement. In all, it...

Yesterday, we heard that the Golf R would come with some surprise that no one is expecting. Today, we’re learning that that surprise is unlikely to be a 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine, but R wanted one. The report comes from Holland’s Autovisie , which reports that the initial plan for the Mk8...

The next Golf R will be a surprising beast, Jost Capito, head of R GmbH, told Motor Trend. Along with some evolutionary changes, there will be plenty to talk about. As you might expect, Capito called the next Golf R a “real driving machine” and added that there would be lots of small...

Although the GTI has now been unveiled, there are still a lot of performance models in the works. The Golf R, we know for sure is coming, and the Arteon and Tiguan R could also be around the corner. This video shot in a parking lot seems to show VW winter-testing a series of increasingly...

Hey, look. They made an ad for us. In Volkswagen’s latest, inner-ear damaging ad, a father and son share a tender moment over the excellence of their respective generations of Golf. I don’t know if it’s just me, though, but this ad is a little nauseating. The driving shots are all so...

A lot of the time, we try to contrive important-seeming reasons to post videos. This is not one of those times. There are driving shots of the GTI. We enjoyed them. We thought we'd share. There are three new videos of the new GTI showing it: Driving Not driving And not driving again but...

We've only just gotten the latest details on the eighth Golf GTI and already we're seeing revealing pictures of the Golf R. Rumored to be unveiled at Goodwood this summer, the Mk8 Golf R is the second (and possibly last) Mk8 Golf that has been confirmed for the US market.             View this...

Well. Here it is. Ahead of its debut at the Geneva Motor Show, Volkswagen has released images and specs for the Mk8 GTI (as well as the GTE and the GTD, but we won’t be getting those, so we’re focusing on the GTI, which we will get in America). European output has been bumped up to 245 HP and...

Okay, it’s actually a “near-production concept car” version of the GTI, according to VW, but that’s close enough to get us all atwitter with excitement. The rest of the GTI will be revealed, as reported, at the Geneva Motor Show in early March. For now, though, the front features those same...

Last week we learned that the new GTI would be revealed at the Geneva Motor Show in March. And now we have an idea of what it might look like. Pictures of a suspiciously spoilered Golf leaked on Instagram this week and the consensus around the internet is: GTI.             View this post on...

We only have a few more months to wait before the next generation of the GTI is unveiled, according to a report from Autocar. Naturally, this will be the European model, so we’ll have to wait longer here in the US. But Volkswagen hopes to have four performance models in European dealerships...

You can now watch the Mk8 Golf tested in all its crashy glory thanks to Europe’s New Car Assessment Programme. And good news! The latest Golf gets 5 stars. The car in question was the 5-door hatchback with the 1.5-liter gas engine, which side note only weighs about 2,900 lbs. It earned a 95%...

Twitter-user Caleb J Schroeter has posted a picture of a suspicious-looking Golf testing down in South Africa and there’s an argument to be made that it could be the next Golf R. The picture was actually posted earlier this week when we first saw it. At the time, we decided it was a GTE, and...

Although we’ll still have to wait months, if not years , for the new Golf to find its way into our dealerships, Europeans are getting their first taste of the car. The UK’s AutoExpress has published an early review of the new car and the good news is that it still sounds remarkably like a...

North Americans have always had to wait for the best Volkswagens, but knowing that theoretically and knowing that in practice are two very different things. A new report from Canada says that Golf lovers will have to wait nearly two years before they can buy a Mk8 Golf . “The Mk8 Golf, as well...

Volkswagen has made a big fuss about the upcoming Mk8 Golf’s technology. And while we mentioned some of the improvements in our article covering the launch of the Mk8, there’s nothing quite like a video to show off how the technology actually gets used. This video, scored with some inexplicably...