Getting promoted from junior enlisted to noncommissioned officer is a big change -- one of the biggest in military life. It comes with new privileges, more responsibility and a nice bump in pay. For ...

Launched in 1977, the Golf GTI was the pioneer of the pocket rocket, and 50 years later, it’s still the go-to option for many buyers.

The countdown to the unveiling of the eighth-generation Golf continues and today we’re looking at the fifth-generation model which debuted in 2003. Building on the success of its predecessor, the Golf ...

The VW Golf GTI Autobahn is a grown-up hot hatch with more power and still available manual transmission for now. (WTOP/Mike Parris) The hot hatch was born 40 years ago when Volkswagen gave its ...

From the January/February 2026 issue of Car and Driver. Losing another manual transmission frustrates us nearly as much as missing out on breakfast at Whammy Burger by three minutes. We North ...

Robert has been an auto enthusiast his entire life. He started working on cars at a young age, learning the basics from his father in the home garage on the weekends. Over the years, he learned as ...

Few cars have the staying power or instant recognition of the Volkswagen Golf, and the seventh-generation Golf picks up right where its predecessor left off--with even more to like. As a leader in the ...

The Mercedes-AMG A 35 is probably no one’s favorite hot hatch, because in this writer’s opinion, anyone who buys it probably cannot afford the A 45 S. Now that’s a true dream ride that almost touches ...

After some years out of the spotlight we've decided to re-introduce an old friend and do a little shuffling of projects over here at Eurotuner. Project GTI has been with us since it turned its first ...