I can tell you that having sat in an Mk8.5 for just a short time, I've never been more excited to test a car in my whole life ...

After a day driving both on public roads and at the track, it's clear you really shouldn't sleep on the facelifted VW GTI and Golf R.

As a newly licensed driver in Nottingham, England, Chris Skelton had his heart set on one car. It was 1988, he was 17, and what he really wanted to be driving was a Volkswagen Mk2 Golf GTI hot hatch.

As we were driving the Golf GTI TCR, VW was poised to pull the covers off the Mk8 Golf. Anyone else seen ... giving you a clear picture of what’s happening at ground level and always backed ...

As with every Golf GTI since the start of the millennium the new GTI Clubsport features the 2-litre turbocharged EA888 four-cylinder engine, producing 296bhp and 273lb ft, the same as the Mk8 ...