CAR magazine's Angus MacKenzie looks back at 50 years of the landmark VW hatchback – and explains why it nearly didn't happen ...

With the Mk8.5 Golf, Volkswagen made one or two missteps that made it a less desirable package than its predecessor overall.

the Volkswagen Golf has continued to chug along. Every few years, the company puts out another new iteration of the compact car, with the most recent being the Mk8. In the United States ...

The Volkswagen Golf R is as close as the company will ever come to a halo car. The very top of the tree of its main outlet ...

The Golf Mk8 typifies Volkswagen's approach, because in many ways it's merely an evolution of the Mk7 that came before, but features enough new tech and design advances to mark it out as something ...

The Mk8 Golf has been riddled with software issues ... We all broadly agreed on the GTI’s placing amongst its Volkswagen Group siblings: ahead of the slightly stilted R, but behind the Cupra ...

Now the Mk8.5 Golf GTI Clubsport ... wheel and brake pedal in the few rivals that there are for this Golf than in the VW. They’re good enough (braking performance in particular is very strong ...

The Mk8.5 Golf GTI receives a number of cosmetic updates, too. Some are the same as those on the standard Volkswagen Golf, such as the redesigned lights: the headlights have become slightly sharper ...

What’s new for the Mk8.5? Well spotted ... sparing mesh to expose the radiators (and the gaudy illuminated VW badge) rob the Golf R of what little dignified subtlety it had left.

Volkswagen Group Africa has confirmed to CAR magazine that the Mk8.5 Golf 1.4TSI is heading to South Africa. Here’s what you can expect and when it arrives on local shores. In 2021, the eighth ...

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