Last time I was at Jalopnik, I covered the GTI/Golf R beat, writing about the MK7 and MK8 GTI and the MK8 Golf R. But, I never had an opportunity to drive them back to back to back until recently ...

The latter should look great with the GTI 380's many color offerings, but especially the Graphite Gray Metallic that's ... shifter you’ll find in other Mk8 GTI models. Gosh, do we miss the ...

The newest and least powerful car of the bunch is the red-painted Mk8.5, namely a GTI with 265 pferdestarke and 370 newton meters of twist. Make that 261 horsepower and 273 pound-feet in old money ...

This means that the outgoing Mk8 GTI (alongside the updated Mk8.5) is going to be the last of a largely glorious – but occasionally inglorious – line of internal combustion hot hatches to bear ...