Many automakers rely on nostalgia to give their first EVs a competitive edge. Ford obviously did that when it named the Mustang Mach-E. But what would happen if Volkswagen introduced an all-electric ...

The Mk 1 GTI spawned an entire segment and a long-lived dynasty, but the current car has strayed from what made the badge so ...

In 1975, Volkswagen took its plucky Golf hatchback, stuffed more power under the hood, and called it the GTI. It quickly developed a rabid fan base and spawned a whole new segment: the performance ...

Big changes are coming to the Volkswagen Golf GTI, according to a new report from Auto Bild. Since the original MKI Golf GTI debuted in 1975, the hot hatch has never attempted to compete with serious ...

Technically speaking, the Golf GTI Mk. 1 isn’t the first-ever hot hatchback. The Mini Cooper doesn’t count either because we’re talking about a two-door instead of a five-door design. On the other ...

History is usually written by the winner, and, as far as hot hatches are concerned, the Volkswagen Golf GTI is king. The inaugural variant, dubbed the Mk1, first showed up in 1975 at the Frankfurt ...

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