After a seemingly endless striptease, Volkswagen has finally shared every detail about the 2025 Golf R. The 2025 model delivers 328 horsepower, a 13-horsepower increase from the outgoing car's 315.

A new kid will soon be on the all-wheel-drive hot hatch block: the latest iteration VW Golf R. The German automaker just took to the World Wide Web to reveal most of its secrets, including the power ...

In recent years, the Volkswagen Golf R has become somewhat of an odd proposition. It’s deservedly renowned for its versatility—a comfortable super tourer among hot hatches one minute, and an apex ...

The 2024 Volkswagen Golf R offers an impressive performance pedigree. Its 2.0-liter turbo four makes 315 horsepower and 280 pound-feet of torque when paired to its 6-speed manual transmission. That ...

Since picking up his first set of MicroMachine toy cars as a toddler, Chris knew he had a passion for automobiles embedded in his soul. It wasn't until he started flipping through car magazines a ...

The Volkswagen Golf R popularized the hot-hatch genre of sporty, higher-performance versions of more-pedestrian models, starting with the transformation of the European Golf in the 1970s and the ...

The Golf R is the old hand, having been part of Volkswagen’s U.S. lineup off and on since 2012. For 2025, it too gets a power bump, from 315 to 328 hp, with no change in torque. Unfortunately, the ...

The 2025 VW Golf R is getting a performance bump for 2025, now sending 328 hp and 310 lb-ft of torque through a seven-speed automatic. This hot hatch will not feature a manual transmission. US market ...

Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...

The hot-hatch segment isn’t what it used to be. Once a playground full of compact performance cars from Japan, Europe, and the U.S., today it’s largely the domain of two flag-bearers: the Toyota GR ...