A healthy GTI is emphatically a positive thing for performance cars as a genre, and off the back of the previous-gen Mk7.5 – a very strong generation – the tech-forward Mk8 has a lot to live ...

Hiding within the eighth-generation Golf GTI was a truly great hot hatch. Yet it was one that didn’t get the praise it deserved owing to some errors made by Volkswagen on the Mk8 Golf as a whole.