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This tuned VW Golf R MK8 delivers 430HP and 550Nm thanks to a Stage 1 remap and performance upgrades. With launch control and ...

Mat Watson and company are back with another interesting three-way drag race. On this occasion, the contenders all wear Volkswagen and Golf badges. Be that as it may, not all Golfs are created equal.

The Volkswagen Golf R has become the everyday hot hatch icon of our times. In a new car market where lease and PCP dominate, its mix of value for monthly expenditure and extreme real-world performance ...

The 2022 Volkswagen Golf R was revealed on U.S. shores in Chicago in July, and the car comes with the same power level as its European homologs. With the current generation and its predecessor sharing ...

There’s plenty of smoke rising from the Volkswagen Golf family camp, but no fire yet. We’re still early in the buildup to what the Golf will become, said buildup full of special editions and ...

This 430HP VW Golf R MK8 is a serious Autobahn weapon. Tuned far beyond stock and paired with a titanium Akrapovic exhaust, ...

Volkswagen unveiled the all-new Mk8 Golf last year with plans of introducing the Golf GTI and hybrid GTE shortly after. As fate would have it, the standard Mk8 Golf won't be arriving in US shores ...

After working predominantly as a freelancer at CarHP/CarIndigo, Amreetam joined the TopSpeed team as a journalist in September 2021. In a world where SUVs are booming, he favors sedans and adores BMWs ...

While the United States will only get the go-fast GTI and R versions of the upcoming Golf Mk8, VW has apparently decided to offer the base version, too, in Canada. It’s not the first time the northern ...

A performance-focused R version of the eighth-generation Golf hatchback has been spotted in the wild by the motoring world’s paparazzi for the first time. Volkswagen Golf GTI Mk8 2020: latest spy ...

Given the speculated world premiere of the new Golf GTI at the Geneva Motor Show in March next year, it’s no surprise that prototypes of the original hot hatch series are coming out in droves these ...