All three, as with the rest of the Mk8 Golf range, are now five-door ... presented in typical colours – red for the GTI, grey for the GTD and white for the GTE – but one detail we nearly ...

Hiding within the eighth-generation Golf GTI was a truly great hot hatch. Yet it was one that didn’t get the praise it deserved owing to some errors made by Volkswagen on the Mk8 Golf as a whole.

VW doesn’t offer the GTI as an estate, but its fancier R brother has been available as a wagon in Europe since 2015. And it’s back for 2025 as part of the facelifted Mk8.5 Golf lineup that ...