Volkswagen is discontinuing manual transmissions for the GTI and Golf R, despite a notable spike in demand from U.S.

With the new Mk8.5 Golf arriving for 2025, Volkswagen killed off its manual hot hatches. That's in spite of clear customer ...

Jetta GLI is officially the last sports compact car wearing a VW badge sold in the U.S. that's available with a stick.

The VW Golf GTI is back for the eighth time, with sportier styling and a more focused chassis. But does that make it a better ...

Two decades ago, alongside the first VW mini MPV, there was undoubtedly an extensive range - think Phaeton, Touareg, Sharan, ...

Equally significantly, on 29 March ’74 Volkswagen built its first ... but none more so than in GTI and R guises – introduced tech no Golf driver had ever seen before. In the R especially ...

By 2019, twelve years into its production run, the Tiguan had established itself as Volkswagen’s biggest-selling SUV. One in ...

Despite its bodykit, the regular Golf GTI generates 60kg of lift at speed. You don’t want this, as it makes cars nervous and ...

Ssadly, the 2025 Golf GTI and Golf R will no longer be available with a manual transmission. That means that the only ...