With its facelift, the “Mk8.5” Golf, as some have called it, has the opportunity to address most, if not all, of the issues that plagued its predecessor, from exterior design, to interior fit ...

The new Volkswagen Golf has arrived. The facelifted eighth-generation model (which has become known as the Golf Mk8.5) has a tough job ahead of it, with competition incoming not only from the ...

Just under five years ago, Spanish motoring publication km77 found the 2020 Volkswagen Golf 1.5 eTSI a bit underwhelming in the moose test. Back then, it couldn't do better than 69 kilometers an ...

Volkswagen isn’t planning on pulling the covers off the Mk8.5 Golf until the end of this month, but to tide us over it’s dropped a full set of “official” spy shots showing the facelifted ...

We’re assured that with this latest facelift (timed to celebrate the Golf’s 50th birthday), all of those things have been fixed. Hurrah! So, let’s start on the inside. The Mk8.5 Golf gets a ...

The time has come for the VW Golf MK8 lineup to receive a mid-lifecycle ... the model inherits the slimmer and more angular headlights of the facelift, combining them with a redesigned bodykit.

Volkswagen is bidding auf wiedersehen to its petrol-powered Golf as plans have been laid for the Mk8.5 facelift to be the last launched with internal combustion engines. It marks the beginning of ...

With zero info from VW about the car, all we can do is speculate. The Golf GTI Mk8 facelift has already spawned a hotter Clubsport variant with 296 horsepower, or 35 hp more than the regular GTI.

But on the whole, the Mk8.5 Golf does manage to deliver more engagement ... But it’s a pity that while the facelift has allowed these updates, it hasn’t stretched to the multi-function ...

The Golf is the lingua franca of the hatch world ... complete with proper buttons as opposed to the capacitive nonsense on the pre-facelift Mk8. Exterior revisions are rather more minimal ...