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Volkswagen Golf GTD 2015 - Crossing Our Fingers...4.5/5

It’s a simple concept: take a GTI, swap its gasoline engine for a turbocharged TDI, and the Volkswagen Group’s little sports car becomes a long-distance express. This is our first meeting with the Golf lineup’s other sports car that sells twice as many units as the GTI in Europe. Got …June 21, 2013

2012 Volkswagen Golf GTI - Germany's Premier Hot Hatch Finally Reaches Maturity4.0/5

What are you looking for in a sporty hatchback? The ability to win drag races from stoplight to stoplight? Handling that can make short work of the back roads on the way home from the office? Look-at-me styling that will shame the neighbour’s more sedate daily driver? A practical body …September 13, 2012

Volkswagen Golf R: What every car should be4.5/5

If I asked you what car represents the epitome of pleasure, what would your answer be? Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, Lotus? All good choices. But there are other, much more accessible cars that bring practically immediate euphoria. There’s the Mazda MX-5, of course, the Golf GTI and for a little while …June 21, 2012

Volkswagen Blue-e-motion: On the electric bandwagon!

A few weeks ago, Car Guide Web journalists had the chance to get behind the wheel of the upcoming electric Golf, dubbed the Blue-e-motion. These days, people are paying less attention to hybrid vehicles, as all-electrics are being touted as the solution to all of the world’s problems. The Volkswagen …February 3, 2011

2010 Volkswagen Golf Wagon TDI: The Most Practical Car in Canada?4.5/5

A few years ago, when fuel prices first began their upward trend buoyed by a flotilla of excuses propped up by wars in the Middle East and Gulf Coast hurricanes, the automotive community was clearly and obviously divided into two camps. One, claiming automotive salvation in the name of superior …October 30, 2010

The 2010 Volkswagen GTI: Good Times Inevitable4.0/5

For young men like myself, there exists a hallowed name in the motoring world; a name that transcends the automobile and has come to represent pure, fantastically unadulterated fun. A dynasty of epic proportions, it quickly became the benchmark by which all others were measured, and has been improved with …October 17, 2010

Volkswagen Golf VI: A deserving winner4.5/5

Wolfsburg, Germany – Launched almost 30 years ago to replace a Beetle that was fading fast, back then the Golf was a simple car powered by a none-too-powerful engine and equipment that was on par with that of economy cars at the time. However, it revolutionized the design world with …October 21, 2009

The 2010 Volkswagen GTI: Six generations of this pioneer

Look no further. The modern compact sports car was invented by Volkswagen more than thirty years ago by a handful of engineers who were determined to create a sports version of the first Golf. After several very impressive prototypes with wide tires and modified suspensions, it was decided that the …June 22, 2009

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