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Geneva 2012: Volkswagen GTI Cabriolet Proves Girls Just Wanna Go Fast
Volkswagen’s GTI Cabriolet debuted today at the 2012 Geneva Auto Show, making the Mazda MX-5 look like Caster Semanya in comparison. In Europe, Volkswagen not only gets the Eos, but a Golf Cabriolet...
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Volkswagen GTI, Back In Plaid For The Seventh Time
Back for the seventh time, the Volkswagen GTI will be unveiled in person in about 24 hours, once the Paris Auto Show kicks off. The GTI will keep its 2.0L turbocharged 4 cylinder, making 217...
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Volkswagen GTI MK 7 – Best In Show So Far?: Paris 2012 Live Shots
Yesterday’s coverage was fairly snarky, for the simple reason that none of the product was particularly compelling or exciting. But I love the look of the new VW GTI, especially in this blue hue. In...
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Review: 2013 Ford Focus ST
When you’ve reviewed over 600 cars, few new ones surprise you. With the polished road manners and granitic structure of a far more expensive car, the 2012 Ford Focus was one of the few. But its...
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Generation Why: California Dreaming – A Hot Hatch Comparison
If the first half of my automotive life was informed by Honda products, the second half was largely colored by “Sport Compact Car” magazine, which I still consider to be America’s finest automotive...
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Volkswagen Cuts Sales Targets For US Dealers
Despite planning to sell 486,000 units in America this year, Volkswagen has trimmed its sales targets to 440,000 units, after shedding market share in the first half of 2013. The slowdown is sales has...
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“I” Before “E”, Except After “D”
Joining the Volkswagen GTI and GTD is the new Golf GTE, a performance plug-in hybrid that puts down as much power as a GTI. According to AutoExpress, a prototype they drove last year hit 62 mph in 7.6...
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Review: 2015 Volkswagen GTI Performance Pack (Mk7)
After the first one, the second one, the worst one, and the star-crossed one, we’ve finally arrived at the Mk7 GTI. Good news: it’s worth the wait. After the mild update that turned the Mk5 into the...
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Torque Steer? What’s Torque Steer?
How quaint it all seems, looking back 10 years and remembering how the enthusiast public was fretting about the Dodge Neon SRT-4 and its half-shaft threatening 250 lb-ft of torque. How could a...
View ArticleNew or Used?: German Car Lover Wants Germanic German From Germany
TTAC commentator tedward writes: Hey Steejeev, I thought I’d finally throw my hat into the ring as my wife and I are on the hunt for a second family car. We currently own a ’91 BMW 318is and a ’13...
View Article2015 Volkswagen GTI Long-Term Update: 10,150 Miles of Fun
As my personal GTI is powered by gasoline, you might think this will be the first Volkswagen story you have read in the past three months that doesn’t mention Dieselgate. You’d be wrong. When...
View ArticleDigestible Collectible: 1984 Volkswagen GTI
Once again, I’m dazzled by those wheels, just like the Quantum we looked at last week. I’m a sucker for clean, well-styled factory wheels: Oldsmobile Rally wheels, Fuchs found on Porsches, Rostyles...
View Article2015 Volkswagen GTI Long-Term Final Update (And Fun With Car Buying Scammers)
The automotive media slobbered over the redesigned 2015 Volkswagen GTI sporty hatchback ever since its introduction two years ago. I put 13,500 miles on mine over the past year and I agree that it is...
View ArticleGTI or S3? Nah, It’s Easy To Make The Case For The 2016 Volkswagen Golf R
$26,415. $36,470. $43,395. The jumps in price from the four-door Volkswagen Golf GTI to the Volkswagen Golf R to the Audi S3, three closely related cars, are not insignificant. Yet in spite of the...
View ArticleAsk Bark Brief: The Death of an Ion
Alexis writes: I give advice to everyone about what to get and not get, and yet I’m finding it impossible to decide for myself. I’m a moderately successful realtor living in Toronto, and my 2005 Saturn...
View ArticleHyundai Delivers a Hotter Hatchback With the i30 N
After four years of development, Hyundai is ushering a new entry into the hot hatchback category with its i30 N. Based on the newest incarnation of the family friendly i30, known throughout North...
View ArticleVolkswagen GTI-Themed Waze App Steers You Toward a Good Time
Our personal biases frequently lead us to condemn any number of advanced automotive technologies. That’s partly because we’re dinosaurs who fetishize vintage automobiles that, in reality, are actually...
View ArticleWeirded Out by the Idea of a Golf GTI Mild Hybrid? You May Have Been Worrying...
Volkswagen has big plans for mild hybrid powertrains and fully electric vehicles, but the perpetually popular Golf GTI’s successor won’t be a point of contention for motoring purists. That’s because VW...
View ArticleBuy/Drive/Burn: The $13,000 Sporty Car Question of 1988
In the recent Shelby CSX Rare Rides entry, long-term commenter 28-Cars-Later suggested some sporty competitors to the Shelby, all of which cost the same according to the state of Michigan. Japan,...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 2001 Volkswagen GTI VR6
Because high-performance German cars require exactly the sort of regular maintenance and attention that most American car owners aren’t so good at doing, I find plenty of nice-looking factory-hot-rod...
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