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 ...

This Volkswagen Golf R is said to have around 430 horsepower on tap and was set loose on Germany's no-speed-limit Autobahn ...

The most obvious changes made to the Golf GTI, however, are the fitment of flared front and rear wheel arches that provide the Golf GTI with a menacing new stance. Complementing these flared ...

It’s fair to say that the pressure was on then to reinvent the Golf R in line with the Mk8 Golf, without messing too much with the proven recipe. The endeavor was it seems a little way short of ...

The 2025 Volkswagen Golf R is no longer just an all-wheel-drive GTI-plus hot hatch. Volkswagen pushed the R to a new level with the introduction of the torque-vectoring rear differential that ...

For two years before we started seeing the Mk8 Volkwagen Golf R out testing, we couldn’t get a handle on what to expect from the hottest trim in the Golf lineup. In 2018, VW sales and marketing ...

(The Euro Style Package can be added to the Black Edition for maximum R value.) The midlife refresh for the Mk8 Golf R is relatively minor. There's a revised front fascia with an illuminated VW ...

For the Mk8 Golf Country, delta4x4 took a Golf R and hiked it up 3.1 inches to achieve about 8.8″ of total ground clearance. That’s Subaru Crosstrek territory but with much more horsepower.