23 Jan 2014, 09:54 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The hot hatch industry might seem like a game the auto industry plays to keep us amused, but being able to brag that you sell "the quickest hatch in the world" is an incredible marketing t...
20 Jan 2014, 13:36 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / There's always something cool about an older generation Volkswagen Golf, probably the idea that you can enjoy it for a lot less money without having to worry too much about reliability. Even th...
10 Jan 2014, 13:01 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We've spent years laughing at the Chinese car clones, but we're at a point where the Chinese might as well laugh at us. Buick sells about 80% of its cars there and traditional European bra...
8 Jan 2014, 14:50 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Last year, this editor called the new Golf R the performance bargain of the 2013. And for good reason, as European performance hatch is said to sprint from 0 to 100 km/h in just 4.9 seconds if fitte...
10 Sep 2013, 10:37 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The opening of the IAA 2013 brings us a fresh perspective on the hot hatch world, as Volkswagen's stand brings with it a game-changer. The A7 generation of the Golf made its debut about a ye...
4 Sep 2013, 07:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / I know I've talked about the new Golf R way too much, but it really is an impressive machine. Ahead of its debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show next week, Volkswagen has dropped a lot more photos ...
3 Sep 2013, 12:57 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Golf R Cabrio is, in my opinion at least, one of the rarest modern Volkswagens. Not only is it not available in the United States, or most of the world for that matter, but it also debuted just ...
2 Sep 2013, 10:06 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / In many ways, the VW Golf is a perfect demonstration of the difference between what regular people want to buy and what crazy journalists think they should buy. With four wheel drive and a turboc...
20 Aug 2013, 14:09 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We're not going to say it… we're not going to say it… we're not going to say it… the new Golf R is awesome with a capital A! Just revealed by the German automa...
7 Jul 2013, 08:03 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the new Golf R will be a very fast car, comfortably going into the 5-and-a-bit second range. The outgoing mode made the switch from the...
4 Jun 2013, 14:19 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Volkswagen Golf VII may be up and running, but when it comes to the ultimate hot hatch performance, we still have to turn to the the Golf R, which, for now, is still based on the Golf VI. The af...
28 Jan 2013, 10:24 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The announcement of an all-new Volkswagen Golf R is a big deal for performance car enthusiasts, who don`t really like the fact that the GTI is front-wheel drive (and not all that powerful). The R ve...
20 Dec 2012, 12:39 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The picnic basket has a powerful new turbo engine and all-wheel drive. Can you guess what we’re talking about? Yes, the R version of the VW Golf Cabriolet has become an official machine, ha...
21 Nov 2012, 16:56 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Did we finish showing you all the supercars in Dubai? Not even close, since the land of very cheap petrol will never run out of V8s and V12s. But we thought it’d be interesting to show you som...
26 Oct 2012, 12:33 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Bagging a car on air ride suspension is a West Coast thing, while Volkswagens are a quintessentially German thing, even though some of them are built in Mexico. But put the two together and you get ...
23 Aug 2012, 07:46 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Holly mother of all hothatches, we might just see the day when a VW Golf leaves the factory with 300 horsepower. The game has moved on a lot since the days of the original GTI, and the prototype for...
18 Jan 2012, 15:17 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Volkswagen Golf R has been recently launched in the US and the automotive produced is now gifting us with a special iPad app that uses the “Golf R Drivers Forever” designation. Th...
7 Nov 2010, 14:57 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The hot hatch segment offers one of the best shows in the industry, as the last few years have seen an ultra-accelerated evolution of the “go-fast” hatches. If you look at the specs o...
12 Jul 2010, 14:51 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Golf R has managed to claim one of the top spots in the hot hatch hierarchy, with the car being one of those vehicles that has pushed the limits of its segment. The car packs a 2.0 liter TSI ...
29 Jun 2010, 10:23 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / One of the vehicles that are fighting to bring the hot hatch game to a new level, the Golf VI R, has been taken further into the performance woods by the German tuner Sport-Wheels.The tuning house a...