Volkswagen’s Mk8 Golf R wasn’t particularly well received, with lacklustre dynamics and infuriating touch controls putting it a step behind its predecessor. For the recent update Volkswagen ...
Volkswagen Golf GTI Clubsport Mk8.5 2024 review – a cut-price Honda Civic Type R? The Golf GTI Clubsport lifts the Mk8.5 GTI to a higher level, but it’s still not quite a match for the best in ...
Residual values for the Golf R are rated at around 40 per cent after three years and 36,000 miles. You can expect an Audi S3 to hang onto over 50 per cent of its value over the same period, which ...
Hooligans, we are. And it's all great fun. Upon sitting in the 2015 Volkswagen Golf R for the first time, I immediately noticed its handbrake – or, should I say, lack thereof. Like many modern ...
By contrast, the rapid Golf R will set the same user back over ... These impressions are of the Mk8 car rather than the revised Mk8.5 version covered in this review. “I can drive 680 miles ...
or 333hp Golf R (£43,320). However, rather like the Porsche 911, most Golf GTIs fulfil their brief best in basic guise, and the Mk8.5 strikes a good balance between performance and efficiency (39 ...