After the 2014 Polo facelift's European launch, Volkswagen is finally ready to reveal the new version of its smallest hot hatch, the Polo GTI. Even though at a glance this is just a refresh, we think ...

South Africans are deeply invested in the rich history surrounding the GTI name. It’s been slapped on one of the most popular hot hatches in the country for decades and those three letters probably ...

It will be interesting to see how Volkswagen translates the passion for GTI and R into the electric era. That is a long-term game, of course, and for now, at least, internal combustion and “vrr-pha” ...

In the 2000s, Volkswagen Group thought variation is the key to success in the hot hatch supermini market. And so, the Skoda Fabia vRS had a 1.9 TDI diesel engine with about 130 hp, while VW's Polo GTI ...

At R689,800, the Volkswagen Golf GTI has become priced out of the reach of some hot-hatch enthusiasts, leaving the Polo GTI to serve as the high-adrenaline model for VW fans. Not that it’s exactly a ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

The hot hatchbacks have started making their entry in India recently. Last year, two of them got out attention – the Mini Cooper S and the Fiat Abarth Punto. And if you are an enthusiast, the year is ...

The hot hatch wars, an on-going automotive conflict, fired up when Volkswagen lobbed a massive, Golf GTI-shaped salvo into an unsuspecting global car market in the middle of 1976. Fast forward to 1995 ...

A new generation of the Volkswagen Polo, the nameplate’s sixth iteration, was revealed on Friday. The new model features an evolutionary look, though major changes have taken place under the skin.

The Volkswagen Polo GTI hot hatch was first introduced in India in late 2016, and odds are that the moniker could make a comeback to our market. Though the India production of the Polo, in its current ...

The first hot Volkswagen Polo came out so long ago, way back in 1984, it didn’t even have an ‘i’ to its name. Although the GT’s carburetted single-cam 8-valve 1.3-litre engine only produced 75hp, the ...