Turns out a frozen lake and studded tires is all you need to have fun in the new Golf R—now more powerful than any other ...

This year, the hot hatch segment is being given a much-deserved shot in the arm with the release of the 2025 Volkswagen Golf R and Golf R Black Edition. Both models are extremely powerful ...

The front-wheel-drive Golf GTI is still the everyman’s sports hatchback, offering affordable thrills since the ’70s, but VW’s R division has been churning out more extreme all-wheel-drive ...

The Volkswagen Golf is available either as a sporty GTI or high-performance R. There is no more regular Golf offered in the U.S. market. For 2025, the manual transmission is dropped and the ...

Many people were no doubt saddened by Volkswagen ... the Golf R32 and its narrow-angle V6 when the mk5 Golf was retired last year. The fact that the R32’s replacement, the Golf R, is powered ...

Three years ago, when the eighth generation was still new, the Volkswagen Golf R came in for its fair share of criticism. After the well-loved seventh-gen R, we were less than impressed with the ...