At the intersection of fun, affordability, and practicality sits the hot hatch. These small, usually FWD runabouts have been the preferred performance cars of the everyman for decades now, and the ...

Volkswagen's performance-oriented R brand kicked off with the fourth-generation Volkswagen Golf R32 in 2002. In the first instance, R models came with six-cylinder naturally aspirated lumps.

Believe it or not, it’s now 27 years since the Volkswagen Golf Mk4 first appeared. Yet despite its advancing years, the design approach of evolution rather than revolution means that, even today, the ...

Yes, we know. After the Golf Mk1, 2 and to a lesser extent the Mk3, cemented the Volkswagen Golf GTI as the hot hatch of choice, things went a bit awry with the Mk4. But that was a while ago. Move ...

As we continue to count down to the launch of the new Golf Mk8, we arrive at the fourth-generation model, a car that signified Volkswagen trying to take the nameplate to a whole different level in ...