Sibling rivalry

IN THE WORLD of hot hatches, I tend to think of the Volkswagen Golf GTI as king, with this going back to my youth. You see, my older brother and I used to attend various modified car meetings around o

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

YOU MAY REMEMBER IN EVO’S FEBRUARY 2024 issue we got together almost every hot hatch on sale in the UK for one big summit-meeting test. There were 18 cars (sales of Audi’s S3 and RS3 were temporarily

ESSENTIALS Volkswagen Golf GTE Price: £40,140 Powertrain: 1.5 4cyl plug-in hybrid, 268bhp 0-62mph: 6.6 seconds WLTP efficiency: 196mpg Official EV range: 81 miles Annual VED: £620 Toyota Prius Excel P

Our pick S Plus List price £65,395 Target Price £59,395 MPG 30.8 CO2 208g/km For Savage acceleration; immense grip; entertaining handling; quick-shifting automatic gearbox Against Very expensive to bu

IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING. ALMOST A decade since the Mk7 Golf GTI Clubsport S took our breath away – and second place at eCoty 2016 – Volkswagen is building another track-focused GTI to take on the hot h