Thanks to the optional Akrapovic titanium exhaust, the 2025 Volkswagen Golf R rips and snorts the way it was meant to.

A few days after confirming that it’s the quickest production Volkswagen around the Nurburgring, the brand has officially ...

Among the few other mad manufacturers willing to push front-drive to the extreme is Volkswagen, and its new Golf GTI Edition ...

While the Golf R doesn't change much for 2023, Volkswagen has added a 20 th Anniversary Edition model with visual changes including 20 th-anniversary badging, blue "R" logos inside and out, and ...

While the first ever Golf R had a naturally aspirated 3.2-liter V6 engine, the 2017 R has a 2.0-liter turbocharged gasoline unit with almost 300 hp under the hood. It is mated either with a 6 ...

The midlife refresh for the Mk8 Golf R is relatively minor. There's a revised front fascia with an illuminated VW logo, front fog lights that turn with the wheels, and a new wheel design that ...

For 2025, Volkswagen has cut the manual transmission from both the Golf GTI and Golf R. That just leaves a seven-speed automatic transmission to channel all the Golf R’s 328 horsepower.

Unfortunately for VW's marketing department, the changes made to the Golf GTI and Golf R for 2025 will likely be overshadowed, in car enthusiasts' eyes at least, by the loss of their manual ...

The 2025 VW Golf R is getting a performance bump for 2025, now sending 328 hp and 310 lb-ft of torque through a seven-speed automatic. This hot hatch will not feature a manual transmission. US ...

We also tested a 2023 Volkswagen Golf R as part of a 0-to-150-to-0 speed test where it returned to a stop in just 40.2 seconds, well before the Honda Civic Type R and Hyundai Elantra N that were ...

The Volkswagen Golf GTI was the hot hatch segment's inventor, even though the original GTI only had 115 hp. Fast-forward to 2017 and we find the Golf R Variant, a true sleeper in the compact-segment.