Volkswagen just recently updated the Mk8 Golf GTI and Golf R for its mid-cycle refresh and the 2025 model-year. Originally ...

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 ...

The Golf R incorporates the company's latest illuminated logo and LED light bar. While the GTI remains mechanically unchanged from the outgoing and original Mk8, the Golf R is the one that ...

Mechanically, there wasn't really anything wrong with the MK8 Volkswagen GTI and Golf R. In fact, they were both pretty awesome. Redesigning an icon like the MK7 Golf is no easy task, but ...

(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 ...

It means the likes of the petrol-powered Golf R aren’t long for this world – in fact, the new Mk8.5 version will be the last generation of the model as we know it. An all-new Mk9 Golf will ...

It’s 20 years since a Volkswagen Golf wearing an R badge went on sale. Not an R in the sense that we’ve come to know them, no: that first R32 unleashed in 2002 took as its basis the 2.8-litre ...

I like cars.” The cars? The much-anticipated Mk8 Volkswagen Golf GTI and Golf R, cars closer to a motorcycle with doors and a roof to anything I’ve driven, marvels of technology that with few ...

one expensive Golf, cool wagon version not sold in U.S. VERDICT A high-performance unicorn crafted from VW's mass-market mule, the Golf R delivers the goods—for a price.