The Golf Mk1 GTI is a 1982-83 model year that came with a 1.8-liter naturally aspirated inline-four. The engine put out a meager 110 horsepower and 112 pound-feet of torque back in the day. But ...

Comparing the original VW Golf GTI Mk1 with the latest Golf GTI for acceleration may seem a pointless exercise. The first-generation Golf GTI’s naturally-aspirated 1.6-liter engine produces only ...

Experience a wild Viertelmeile (¼-mile) drag race between a heavily modified VW Golf Mk1 Drag Racer and a turbocharged Toyota Supra. With high-rev burnouts, aggressive launches, and raw turbo ...

The two clips below show the Golf racing a handful of other cars during the event. In the first race, it was lined up alongside an MK7.5 Golf R but was left in the dust of this more modern hot hatch.

Marco's first car was a Golf Mark 1. Now, twenty-five years of modifying cars later, he's still on the Golf Mk 1 scene, owning one of the most interesting and best-executed specimens in the whole ...

After putting the car on a dyno and testing the horsepower of each engine separately, and then together, Jacobus says the twin-engine Golf makes 536 horsepower (400 kW) and 590 pound-feet (800 Nm ...