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 ...

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 ...

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 answer to that question lies in the video embedded down below, which shows a half-mile race between the tuned Golf and purple Lamborghini. The action starts at the 2:40 mark, and you may want ...

The Mk1 GTI is arguably the greatest hot hatch of all time. Other hot hatches of the era, like the Peugeot 205 GTI , can make cases for themselves as objectively better cars—and maybe they were.

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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 ...

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.

And now, it looks like the Volkswagen Mk1 Golf GTI finally received the Lego treatment. This set, posted by user hasskabal on Lego's "Ideas" creator site, is an eerily accurate and well-thought ...

A normal Mk1 Golf weighed comfortably under a tonne, but the CityStromer version tipped the scales at around 1,500kg. The result was a top speed of 60mph, and 0-30mph in around 13 seconds or so ...