Life hasn’t been easy for the Mk8 Golf GTI. After the heights of the Mk7, which was superbly rounded and one of the best GTIs there’s ever been, things came tumbling down when Volkswagen ...

Balanced, agile and responsive chassis; good variability within its drive modes Expensive, and that’s before options; user interface is a mess; not actually that engaging Volkswagen quotes a top ...

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.