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Live Thread: One Week with a 2024 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport

We have a 2024 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport 2.0T SEL R-Line for a week. What do you want to know?

You Need This: VW Squareback with a few modern updates

Who needs a minivan or a crossover when you could have this VW Squareback?

Volkswagen to integrate ChatGPT into in-car voice assistant

VW plans to enhance its IDA voice assistant with ChatGPT. Look for it in the ID.7, ID.5, ID.4, ID.3, Tiguan, Passat and Golf.

You Need This: Not a GTI, but still a rad Rabbit

While not a GTI, this VW Rabbit still has all the Rad-era charm–and less than 100,000 original miles.

Will the VW ID. GTI really be an affordable performance EV?

Can the GTI formula we know and love really be applied to an electric car? VW seems to think so if the ID. GTI Concept is anything to go by.

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Volkswagen articles

Features: VW Golf R: Proof that hot hatches can still punch above their weight

The GRM track test and review of the latest Volkswagen Golf R.

Features: Volkswagen Rabbit GTI: Winner then, still a winner today?

The GRM staff knows rad-era cars, as we’ve been driving them since they were new.

Features: #TBT | In autocrossing, sometimes different is really good

These 6 autocrossers ditched the usual suspects in favor of something a bit different.

Columns: I’ve ruined another perfectly practical car–and I’m grateful for it

Our Mk7 VW Golf GTI is just the latest perfectly good car we've ruined in the name of our hobby.

Features: #TBT | When Volkswagen Beetles reigned supreme

The Beetle, among other VWs, once competed in the Volkswagen Sedan class in the Midwestern Council of Sports Car Club.

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Volkswagen project cars

2017 Golf GTI

 Is it still possible to have a fun, trackable daily driver without paying the average new car price of $48,000?

1993 Fox

There's cheap fun, and then there's $500 VW Fox fun.

2013 Beetle TDi

You may already know that we’ve added a controversial Chevy Volt to our long-term fleet to explore what alternative drivetrains mean to the future of enthusiast cars. Well, Volkswagen challenged …

1995 Golf

Volkswagen Golf—Cheap, fun and easily modified. We're going to make ours faster and corner quicker. What else did you think we were going to do?

1976 Scirocco

Found on Craigslist for $850, this 95K original mile, 1976.5 Super Scirocco hasn't been on the road since 1986! Plans include a 2.0 liter ABA transplant and period-correct suspension and …

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Volkswagen project car updates

How to properly tech a used car for the track

We zeroed in on our ideal Volkswagen Golf GTI–a 2017 Sport with a DSG transmission–and successfully purchased one from Carvana. Time for the race track, …

What’s it weigh? Mk7 VW Golf GTI edition.

What does a 2017 Volkswagen Golf GTI actually weigh? The VW media kit lists the following curb weights:

  • Two-door manual: 3034 pounds.
  • Two-door automatic: 3078 pounds.
  • Four-door …

Are endurance race pads really the best choice for a daily driver?

In our last brake update, we fitted a set of 3D-printed brake cooling deflectors. Our goal? To keep our very street-friendly pads–Pagid’s new STREET+ line–working even …

Are two-piece rotors worth the extra money?

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Suspension, power, must be time for brakes on our Mk7 Volkswagen GTI, right?

We’d …

What can our GTI daily also do? Win at autocross.

Can one car really do it all? That’s the question we keep asking of our Mk7 GTI, and it keeps answering “Yes.”

That answer came yet again …

Volkswagen Forum Topics

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A few sets of wheels FS (NA Miata OEM alloys, Miata OEM steelies, VW GTI OEM, aftermarket 4x110)
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Volkswagen Readers' Rides

Apr 16, 2024 by Schnitzel760
2019 None Golf Alltrack

2019 Golf Alltrack 1.8t DSG Unitronic Stage 1 tunes White line rear sway bar

Apr 01, 2024 by Miatagrin
2018 None GTI

G Street Autocross

Mar 26, 2024 by pstryder
2015 None Sportwagon TDI

Cheater diesel bought new in 2017.

Mar 04, 2024 by flatlander937
2019 None GTI

Simple daily/track/autocross toy that I nerd out on. https://www.datadrivenmqb.com www.youtube.com/@datadrivenmqb www.facebook.com/datadrivenmqb

Feb 28, 2024 by FastTXCanuck
2017 None Golf R

Dedicated Time Trials and track car after getting fast enough to brake all the VW and upgraded sub-frames and suspension components

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