The Best VW Mk7 GTI Mods For The Street Street

Regression Cars aren’t getting any less expensive. Price reductions are rare in the industry, and constantly evolving tech means there’s always something new to price up. With that said, there is still a variety of affordable European offerings with some fun and luxurious equipment. If you’re...

One of the most universal experiences as a car owner is paying for fuel. Whether that be electricity, gasoline, diesel, or yesterday’s fry oil, there’ll always be complaints about the cost unless it were free. Because of a changing climate, we now have a large offering of vehicles that, with the...

For decades, automatic transmissions have been viewed as the antithesis of performance by most automotive enthusiasts. Power-sapping torque converters, glacially slow shifting, and driver feedback described as vague at best are some of the key complaints about older 'traditional' automatics. With...

It’s no secret that we in the US have missed out on more than a few great models over the years. Emissions and crash safety regulations have played spoiler to many, leaving us no choice but to sit and wait for the 25-year import rule to roll around. Now, for an entire generation who grew up on...

Possibly the most critical factor in car ownership is its reliability. Everyone pays for a vehicle once, but those who don’t do their research or choose with their heart can subject themselves to a lifetime of financial and emotional pain. Now, whatever constitutes something as “worth it” is...

The Mk6 GLI shares a platform with a handful of other performance-oriented Volkswagen models. The shared base allowed VW to engineer a smaller amount of components for a wider range of models to keep costs low and quality high. What that resulted in was a series of well-developed systems with...

The advent of all-wheel-drive in passenger cars reshaped how automakers designed every vehicle they made, whether pedestrian or performance. Audi paved the way with their quattro and rewrote the rally rulebook simultaneously, leading every manufacturer to develop their own system or seek one out....

The Volkswagen Jetta has sat alongside the Golf since 1979 as the hatchback’s slightly larger sibling. Whether your market called it the Jetta, the Bora, or the Atlantic, VW’s small sedan has been the answer to many people’s needs. Like the golf, VW has given the Jetta a few performance variants,...

There’s a short list of vehicles that are certain to make you smile, get you around reliably, and go easy on your wallet. Somewhere near the top of the list sits VW’s pair of hotshot hatchbacks. After forty years of development, the GTI and the Golf R are refined, fun, and supremely capable in...