Tim Pollard | Petrol | Volkswagen

Volkswagen today unveiled two hot hatch surprises at the 2009 Wörthersee hot hatch festival: a potential Polo GTI and a harder, faster Golf GTI, likely to give clues to the R model tipped by CAR for launch later this year. Both models pictured here are concepts at this stage. The Golf GTI Wörthersee 09 edition gains cosmetic and modest engineering ...

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VW Polo GTI and harder Golf GTI Wörthersee 09

Tim Pollard, 20 May 2009 16:34

VW Scirocco R (2009): first official photos

Tim Pollard, 20 May 2009 00:01

Volkswagen has issued the first official details of the new Scirocco R. We've been scooping it as the anticipated Scirocco R20T – and while our technical information was spot-on, the name has been changed at the last minute we're informed. So it's farewell R20T (and, presumably, R32 and R36 elsewhere in VW's range) and hello R. It seems likely that ...

VW Polo unveiled at Geneva motor show 2009

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Tim Pollard, 02 March 2009 20:04

VW tonight issued these first photos of the new Polo Mk5 on the eve of its Geneva motor show debut. And the latest Polo supermini is every inch the shrunken Golf hatchback we were expecting – it looks like a Golf the cat sat on. One of the headlines is that they've cut the kerb weight by 8% over the ...

Help CAR find the best hot hatch of all time

Tim Pollard, 01 March 2009 15:00

The poll is closed, votings over click here for the latest instalment of the greatest hot hatches. You've been voting over the past fortnight for your greatest hot hatch of all time – and there are still two weeks left to influence our poll. At the time of writing, the top ten is led (perhaps curiously!) by the Saab 99 ...

Volkswagen Golf GTI W12 concept (2007): first official pictures

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Tim Pollard, 17 May 2007 04:44

VW Golf GTI W12: the lowdown We loved the Clio V6, despite its dynamic shortcomings, and some CAR staffers still go weak at the knees at the mention of a Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 rally car. But now Volkswagen is muscling in on the mad-hatch genre by showing this one-off Golf GTI W12. You read that right. Wolfsburg's crazier engineers ...

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