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THE COOPER S WAS A SOGGY effort and this isn’t any better. You can forgive a hot hatch appalling ride but when it’s on top of a transmission that’s hard to gel with, an uninspiring soundtrack and impr

TO mark 50 years since the original Mk1 Golf GTI appeared, VW has revealed one of the fiercest special editions of the iconic hot hatchback in its history, the new Mk8 Golf GTI Edition 50. While VW GT

I t’s only a short drive; a quick evaluation run in a prototype. But it’s long enough to confirm something important. The new Golf GTI Edition 50 isn’t merely a decal-and-badge special – it’s the most

IT WAS INEVITABLE THAT, AT SOME point, Ian Eveleigh and I would get our two big, blue, V8-engined German estate cars mixed up and go home in each other’s cars. And we did. Ev got the better deal, of t

MY EXPERIENCES WITH SOME OF THE VOLKSWAGEN Group’s other recent hot hatches put something of a dampener on my enthusiasm for the Fast Fleet Cupra Leon. I’d driven this facelifted model abroad on its l

We’ve landed in North Wales for a bit of car- and train-spotting, where the Griffins and Blue Ovals face a Bavarian interloper