It's one thing to become infatuated with a car after a short fling, as we did when we declared Volkswagen's GTI the 2007 Automobile ... a six-speed dual-clutch DSG transmission ($1075), eighteen ...

Thanks to that sweet engine, both the Jetta GLI and three-door GTI have taken blue ribbons ... paddle-shifted transmission that VW calls DSG. And despite the big torque available to the front ...

The engine is mounted longitudinally, and its 550 lb-ft of torque makes its way to the rear wheels through a six-speed automatic transmission. And the resultant urgency should be obvious: the GTI ...

The GTI was one of the bright spots in a dark automotive age, and this latest version channels that ethos in the best of ways. Not bad for a buy-in starting at about $23K. Skip to main content ...

Finally, for the 2007 model years, Volkswagen presents North Americans with its latest iteration of the original pocket-rocket. Physically, the car is "very euro". The front end of the Golf ...

Take the automotive landscape, in which the sporty arena, littered with Chevy Camaro Z-28s and Datsun 280ZXs, got a startling wake-up call from the most unassuming alarm clock, the Volkswagen GTI.

Going forward, the automatic transmission will outlive the GTI's manual, with Volkswagen announcing the latter's retirement after the 2024 model year. That's right, Volkswagen is stickin' it to ...

That time, we were only able to source a GTI with the two-pedal, dual-clutch gearbox, a transmission I felt didn't quite suit the engine it was mated to. On the other hand, I was effusive about ...