Among the eight generations wearing the coveted Golf GTI badge, the Mk 6 is a winner and especially the manual variant that Volkswagen built between 2010 and 2014. In our ranking of the ...

Is the Volkswagen Golf GTI a Good Car? If you need one car to ... I’ve owned two, a Mark 5 and a Mark 6. The reason why is simple: When it comes to finding one vehicle that can do nearly ...

Of course, the interior adopts a reinterpreted GTI plaid pattern called "Jack-e," after the "Jacky" nomenclature used for the fabric in the Mark 6 Golf GTI, covering new sport seats in the ID GTI ...

but it lost its spot at the top of the lineup as VW launched the GTI VR6 with a 172-hp 2.8-liter narrow-angle V-6 engine. Everybody loves the Mark 4 Golf, but the GTI version entered a dark era ...

In practice, I saw as high as 36 mpg (6.5 L/100 km) on highway trips with the three-pedal GTI. A more modern electronic architecture was one of the improvements to the Golf from Mk 7 to Mk 8.