including the high-performance Golf R, will come equipped with a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic. A slightly toned-down version of the Golf GTI isn’t the end of North America’s bad news.
As with every Golf GTI since the start of the millennium the new GTI Clubsport features the 2-litre turbocharged EA888 four-cylinder engine, producing 296bhp and 273lb ft, the same as the Mk8 ...
Anyone who read our bumf for the Golf GTI will find some repetition here. Overall length of the R is just 3 millimetres longer than the GTI (4,290 mm total), a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it measure ...
The front-wheel-drive Golf GTI is still the everyman’s sports hatchback, offering affordable thrills since the ’70s, but VW’s R division has been churning out more extreme all-wheel-drive ...