Most enthusiasts have used the Volkswagen Golf in its performance variants as the benchmark for the “hot hatch” category. The 2019 Golf GTI is the metric by which all others will likely be compared, ...

More often behind his keyboard than on the road, you can still catch him on the auto show floor, harassing engineers to understand what lies beneath the pretty body work. As you can see from the photo ...

This one is going to upset people in both camps, but we just had to share the first-ever drag race between the new Jetta GLI and its older sister, the Golf GTI. As you may have heard, the Jetta GLI is ...

Volkswagen currently offers two performance hatchbacks in the USA, the Golf GTI and Golf R. The former is front-wheel drive and makes 228 horsepower (down 14 from the max offered in Europe), while the ...

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The sinusoidal popularity of hatchbacks in America can be difficult to understand. Sometimes it’s up, sometimes it’s down, but it never actually dies—it just hides in the shadows of subculture before ...

This is the opening to an iconic 1980s Volkswagen commercial. The TV spot’s musical theme was set to the 1964 tune G.T.O. by Ronnie and the Daytonas. The original song’s Pontiac-themed verses were ...

The term “hot hatch,”aka a high-performance version of a mass-produced hatchback — has been part of the automotive lexicon for almost four decades. And while there may be a variety of competition ...

Following stints in TV news production and as a record company publicist, Chris spent most of his career in automotive publishing. Mentored by Automobile Magazine founder David E. Davis Jr., Paukert ...