Volkswagen just recently updated the Mk8 Golf GTI and Golf R for its mid-cycle refresh and the 2025 model-year. Originally launched in 2020 globally and in 2022 for the North American market, at three ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

We’re no fans of the Mk8 Golf R, but with this much grunt its ‘drift mode’ would probably come into its own. In the Mk7.5, which lacks a drift function, it feels like a good, safe fast-road ...

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.