With the new Mk8.5 Golf arriving for 2025, Volkswagen killed off its manual hot hatches. That's in spite of clear customer ...

However, instead of only getting an extra seven miles per hour, for a 162-mph top speed, an unrestricted Mk8 ... run GTI TCR costs 4,610 British pounds more than the most expensive Golf R.

Simply put, I don't like hating on stuff. But I just can't, in good confidence, be all lovey-dovey and gushy over the 2024 Mk8 Golf GTI after the three-ish weeks I just spent driving it.

Before the year is out the Mk8 Golf will have arrived, heralding the arrival of a new GTI further down the line. As a send-off, Volkswagen has released the Golf GTI TCR – a Clubsport by another ...

Volkswagen’s refreshed 2025 Golf lineup, dubbed the Mk8.5, brought updated styling and ... discontinued manual transmissions for the Golf GTI and Golf R. In a last hoorah of the iconic hot ...

The Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR is eligible for sixteen TCR touring ... The Golf GTI Clubsport lifts the Mk8.5 GTI to a higher level, but it’s still not quite a match for the best in class 2025 ...

That remains to be proven. Electrification also means that, after 49 years and more than two million sales, the updated, eighth-generation Golf GTI ‒ a Mk8.5 in VW-speak – is the last of its kind.

It may look familiar, but the new VW Golf 8 is a radical reinvention – with hybrid power and a ‘digital revolution’ inside.

The eighth-generation Golf is available in eight colour choices ... Carsguide is not liable for the accuracy of any information provided in the answers. The TCR builds on the regular GTI, adding ...