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Your Projects: An Audi V8-powered Volkswagen GTI

How to build the ultimate Mk4 GTI? How about swapping in an Audi V8?

File under FOMO: I hate missing events

Few things are worse than having to skip an event because of a sickness.

Live thread: Track testing our Mustang vintage racer and Mk7 GTI

Follow this thread for live updates while we track test our 1965 Ford Mustang vintage race car and 2017 VW Mk7 Golf GTI.

Will the VW ID. GTI really be an affordable performance EV?

Can the GTI formula we know and love really be applied to an electric car? VW seems to think so if the ID. GTI Concept is anything to go by.

The GTI 380 is how VW says auf Wiedersehen to the manual GTI

VW announces the GTI 380, a special equipment package that celebrates the final year for the manual GTI and R.

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GTI articles

Columns: I’ve ruined another perfectly practical car–and I’m grateful for it

Our Mk7 VW Golf GTI is just the latest perfectly good car we've ruined in the name of our hobby.

Columns: How I rediscovered a love of autocross by putting down the camera

Normally, you can find Chris, our video editor, shooting cars on track from behind a camera. This time, he left the camera behind so he could be the one on track.

Features: Volkswagen Rabbit GTI: Winner then, still a winner today?

The GRM staff knows rad-era cars, as we’ve been driving them since they were new.

Buyer's Guides: Mk2 Golf GTI: What you need to know before you buy

The evolution of the original VW Rabbit GTI was the A2-chassis Golf GTI, one of the most fun-to-drive hot hatches to ever hit the road.

News and Notes: A GTI-powered Plymouth Horizon

Not a Rabbit, not an Omni, but a Plymouth Horizon.

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GTI project car updates

All you need for a life-changing afternoon? $30 and a Mk7 GTI.

What can $30 get you these days? A quick internet search says a basic coffeemaker, an extra-large specialty pizza or even a Barbie Getaway House playset (for my daughter, of …

Why the Mk7 VW GTI is like a modern take on the EP3 Civic Si hatch

The breadvan.

That’s what they called it.

The Ferrari 250 GT SWB, the wind-cheating special built for the 1962 running of Le Mans?

No, the EP3-chassis Honda Civic Si, …

What if we took our GTI to an event not involving lap times?

Our GTI has seen lots of excitement: track days and tire tests, local autocrosses and One Lap of America.

Maybe a quiet event …

What about simply autocrossing for fun?

No car prep rules, no class designations, no protest forms. That’s what we found when autocrossing our VW Golf GTI this past weekend with the Florida Citrus Region

Wanna autocross with GRM this weekend?

Spring is here. Let’s race.

We’re running our Golf GTI on Sunday, April 21, with our local Porsche Club of America in Tavares, Florida. German …

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GTI Readers' Rides

Jun 06, 2019 by CharlieFoxtrot
2018 Volkswagen GTI SE

6MT, white, leather, stock.

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