The 2018 Volkswagen Up GTI comes with a 1.0-liter three-cylinder making 114 hp and 147 lb-ft of torque. The 2018 Volkswagen Up GTI comes with a 1.0-liter three-cylinder making 114 hp and 147 lb-ft of ...

At about 1.4 tons, the Golf GTI is undeniably a completely different animal to the original that came out more than 20 years ago. Thankfully, Volkswagen has revitalized the hot hatch segment with the ...

After an explosive launch four and a half years ago, during which it was praised by the media and compared to the original Golf GTI, the Volkswagen Up! GTI has somewhat fallen into the abyss. That, ...

Volkswagen is the latest brand to experiment with a high performance hatchback in the European A segment. What the company’s engineers have created in the up! GTI is something very special indeed.

Hot versions of city cars are a rare breed these days, which makes the Up GTI something of a rarity. City car or not, VW opted to slap the GTI badge on it, so it must tick many boxes in order to do it ...

Volkswagen has brought back the Up! GTI to the UK market, after a short hiatus, launching it in two versions, three- and five-door, with generous equipment and the brand’s new logo. Sitting at the top ...

The US sport-compact revolution started right here. Decades on, VW's pumped-up Rabbit might still be America's most entertaining hot hatch. Chris Paukert Former executive editor / Cars Following ...

The Volkswagen GTI is in a strange spot these days, it must be said. On one hand, the name is iconic for good reason—one that VW itself realized just recently it shouldn’t jettison in favor of ...

We know that you know we don’t get the subcompact Volkswagen Up! hatchback here, but it’s still cool to think about what might be if the Golf GTI Mk1 heir came to the U.S. Autocar’s Matt Prior just ...

The original 1984 Volkswagen Rabbit GTI is one of the all-time greats—a wheeled ball of joy that can still put a smile on your face nearly 40 years after it first arrived on U.S. shores. But there's a ...