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Volkswagen Golf R Review

We’re high up in Tasmania’s alpine region and pushing hard in what is Volkswagen’s latest edition to its hot hatch arsenal. brightcove.createExperiences(); It’s quick this Golf R,

Volkswagen Golf GTD Review

Volkswagen Golf GTD Review If I say the word ‘diesel’ to you, you’re probably not going to be thinking about ‘performance’ unless of course you happen to have been standing trackside at Le Mans last weekend, watching the Audi LMP1 di

Volkswagen Golf Wagon Review

Death and taxes might be life's only two certainties, but it's also a fairly safe bet that a new Volkswagen Golf model is sure to prove a worthy addition to an already impressive line up. Now add a little more versatility and a bucket load of ext

Volkswagen Golf Review & Road Test

An economic environmental crusader that doesn't sacrifice drivability. Model Tested: 2010 Volkswagen Golf 77TDI; 1.6-litre, four-cylinder, turbo-diesel; five-speed manual; five-door hatch - $28,690* Options (As Fitted): Media Device Int

Volkswagen Golf R to be detuned in Australia

It's Volkswagen's performance hero - the Golf R - and it has just been launched in Europe with a piping hot 2.0-litre turbocharged engine under the bonnet. Making 199kW and 350Nm with all wheel drive, it's said to be a cracking drive. But Austral

Volkswagen Golf GTI Review & Road Test

And we thought it was impossible to better the Mark V Golf GTI... Model Tested: 2010 Volkswagen Golf GTI; 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbocharged; six-speed manual, three-door - $38,490 Options: Metallic Paint $700; CarAdvice Rating

Volkswagen Golf Review & Road Test

Rewriting the small car rulebook Model Tested: 2009 Volkswagen Golf Mk VI 118TSI Comfortline; 1.4-litre, four-cylinder, petrol; seven-speed DSG; five-door hatch - $32,990* Options Available: Metallic Paint $700; Electric Glass Sun

2010 Volkswagen Golf GTI Review

I’m somewhere in the Victorian Alps with about forty-kilometres of clean, windy road ahead and I’m driving the new GTI at eight-tenths with former F1 driver Hans Stuck on my tail. Make that nine-tenths. I’m carrying an awful lot of

2009 Volkswagen Golf Review & Road Test

2009 Volkswagen Golf Review & Road Test New Golf hits the competition for six Model Tested: 2009 Volkswagen Golf Mark VI 90TSI Trendline; 1.4-litre turbocharged four-cylinder; six-speed manual; five-door hatch: $25,990 (RRP)

2009 Volkswagen Golf MkVI Review

2009 Volkswagen Golf  Mark VI - First Steer - by Paul Maric Leaner, meaner and greener. That’s the message Volkswagen wants to send with its new Golf. Launched to the Australian motoring press yesterday in Byron Bay, New South Wales, the n