Tests and Features

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …