The final design of the Golf was known as the Type 17. The Golf Mk1 went into production in March 1974, and sales officially began in May of the same year. About a year later, the hatchback ...

The Volkswagen Golf GTI may not have been the first hot hatch, but it certainly helped elevate the concept to the must-have ...

Ask any performance car enthusiast under 35 what their first fast car was and there’s a good chance they will respond with the name of a hot hatch of some kind. But their answer would be very ...