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• 2025 Volkswagen Golf R debuts new look and more power for $48,325 Joel Feder February 12, 2025

  The 2025 Volkswagen Golf R arrives with a tweaked design, more power, and a higher price than last year.

• 2025 Volkswagen Golf GTI starts at $33,670, brings ChatGPT to the hot hatch

  VW's Golf GTI benefits from a range of styling and tech updates, but no additional horsepower.

  Viknesh Vijayenthiran February 12, 2025
• 2025 VW Golf R arrives this summer with 329 hp

  VW's updated Golf R is arriving soon, and is tipped to be the last with a gas engine.

  Viknesh Vijayenthiran June 13, 2024
• 2025 VW Golf GTI Clubsport bows with 296 hp

  VW unveiled a new Golf GTI Clubsport as part of the celebrations for this year's 50th anniversary of the Golf nameplate.

  Viknesh Vijayenthiran June 3, 2024
• New VW GTI Clubsport coming to celebrate Golf's 50th anniversary

  The new hot hatch will make its debut during the 2024 24 Hours of Nürburgring endurance race.

  Viknesh Vijayenthiran May 24, 2024
• New Volkswagen Golf R teased, debuts this summer

  A new Volkswagen Golf R follows the latest GTI this summer, but will it offer a manual transmission?

  Joel Feder January 30, 2024
• 2025 VW Golf teased at CES with integrated ChatGPT Viknesh Vijayenthiran January 8, 2024

  Future Volkswagens will feature voice assistants enhanced by popular chatbot ChatGPT.

• Refreshed 2025 VW Golf to debut in late January

  An updated VW Golf is coming soon, and is likely to be the last version fitted with a gas engine.

  Viknesh Vijayenthiran January 3, 2024
• 2025 Volkswagen Golf R may be last with gas engine

  The next Golf will be an EV, meaning gas-powered Golfs will most likely soon be on their way out.

  Viknesh Vijayenthiran November 14, 2023
• Final Volkswagen Golf GTI with gas engine has been spied

  VW's current Golf GTI will be given an update before an electric successor arrives later this decade.

  Viknesh Vijayenthiran October 10, 2023
• VW confirms electric Golf, cancels second Wolfsburg plant

  An electric VW Golf based on the SSP platform will be launched late this decade.

  Viknesh Vijayenthiran September 29, 2023
• 2024 Volkswagen GTI 380 marks end of manual transmission in automaker's hot hatch

  The manual transmission will finally disappear from the Volkswagen lineup after one final special edition GTI.

  Stephen Edelstein August 30, 2023
• 2025 Volkswagen Golf spy shots Viknesh Vijayenthiran June 2, 2023

  VW is working on an update for its final Golf to be powered by gas engines.

• Current VW Golf will be last with internal-combustion engine

  VW aims to exclusively sell electric cars by 2033.

  Viknesh Vijayenthiran April 4, 2023
• Golf name reportedly an option for Volkswagen's smallest EV

  VW's Golf nameplate is expected to live on in the electric era.

  Viknesh Vijayenthiran February 15, 2023
• VW GTI 40th Anniversary Edition gives a hot-hatch hurrah

  Buyers of the VW Golf GTI 40th Anniversary Edition will pay $2,500-$3,000 more to get a limited-edition car with special styling elements.

  Stephen Edelstein October 26, 2022
• 2023 Volkswagen Golf R 20th Anniversary Edition revealed with sunroof delete

  It's been 20 years since the Volkswagen Golf R32 hit the streets, and to celebrate VW is building about 1,800 Volkswagen Golf R 20th Anniversary Edition models.

  Stephen Edelstein September 1, 2022
• VW celebrates 20 years of the Golf R with 329-hp special edition

  VW has revealed its most powerful Golf yet, and the car is confirmed for North America.

  Viknesh Vijayenthiran June 2, 2022
• First drive review: 2022 Volkswagen Golf R hits on dynamics, misses on controls Joel Feder March 18, 2022

  The 2022 VW Golf R is a better performer and it’s still refined, but the control layout confounds.

• VW GTI/Golf R: Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2022 nominee

  Will the improved performance and new technology of the Mk VIII Volkswagen GTI and Golf R earn this duo the Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2022 award?

  Kirk Bell December 20, 2021
• Volkswagen GTI BBS concept channels classic VW tuner builds

  BBS wheels have been a staple of the VW scene since the early days of the GTI, and VW has celebrated this with its latest concept.

  Stephen Edelstein August 15, 2021
• Preview: 2022 Volkswagen Golf GTI to be quicker, more digital, start at $30,540

  When the eighth-generation Volkswagen Golf GTI arrives for 2022, it will feature a digital instrument cluster and a larger touchscreen. The hot hatch also gets a more potent turbo-4 engine.

  Kirk Bell July 14, 2021
• 2022 Volkswagen Golf R wagon revealed with 315 hp, drift mode

  The more practical version of the redesigned 2022 Volkswagen Golf R has been revealed.

  Viknesh Vijayenthiran July 7, 2021
• Deep dive: 2022 VW Golf GTI and R interiors go digital

  Both models get new Digital Cockpit displays, and a head-up display is available, and steering-wheel buttons go capacitive.

  Stephen Edelstein June 22, 2021

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