CAR magazine's Angus MacKenzie looks back at 50 years of the landmark VW hatchback – and explains why it nearly didn't happen ...

With the Mk8.5 Golf, Volkswagen made one or two missteps that made it a less desirable package than its predecessor overall.

The Volkswagen Golf R is as close as the company will ever come to a halo car. The very top of the tree of its main outlet ...

Volkswagen’s Mk8 Golf R wasn’t particularly well received ... Mk8.5 facelift that has been applied to all models, including the new GTI Clubsport. Scan the specs and you’ll notice that ...

The new logo suggests the GTI will live on ... the updated, eighth-generation Golf GTI ‒ a Mk8.5 in VW-speak – is the last of ...

Now the Mk8.5 Golf ... than the VW (from £42,155). And a Smurf blue, six-speed manual Focus might be harder to justify (to those who we must justify these things too) than a smart new Golf ...

Volkswagen is set to make an unprecedented move: closing three German factories in a drastic cost-saving effort aimed at ...

The new Volkswagen Golf GTI is not electric and it’s not a hybrid ... which arrived in 2021 to hardly universal acclaim. It suffered from the Mk8 Golf’s general cabin tech problems, as well as a ...

Volkswagen has updates across its entire cars lineup for 2025, from its newest electric model you’re going to want to see to ...

Volkswagen Group Africa has confirmed to CAR magazine that the Mk8.5 Golf 1.4TSI is heading ... derivative is also employed by the (Golf-based) T-Roc and new Tiguan, the latter of which we sampled ...

What’s new for the Mk8.5? Well spotted ... sparing mesh to expose the radiators (and the gaudy illuminated VW badge) rob the Golf R of what little dignified subtlety it had left.