Volkswagen Golf GTI Mk4: the GTI that went soft, and the R32 that made up for it The Mk4 is the GTI Americans bought by the truckload and enthusiasts still can’t quite forgive. Volkswagen sold it here from 1999 to 2005, it put VW back on the map in the United States, it had an … Read more
Volkswagen Golf GTI Mk2 and Mk3: Pennsylvania’s GTI, the weight problem and the VR6 America got the second-generation GTI before it ever got a car called Golf GTI. Volkswagen of America sold it simply as the “GTI”, a model of its own, and some of the early ones were bolted together in a factory in … Read more
Volkswagen Golf GTI Mk1: the bootleg hot hatch America bought as a Rabbit from Pennsylvania In 1982 Volkswagen of America was in trouble. Rabbit sales that year were down a devastating 44 percent on the year before, according to the Christian Science Monitor, and the cheap, clever little hatchback that was supposed to replace the … Read more
