Derek Spratt’s story starts like a lot of collector car stories: He had a GTI in college but eventually moved along to another car. After nostalgia got the better of him, he chased down a similarly ...

Then marketed as the Rabbit GTI in the United States, the 1983 Vee Dub we’ll talk about today was featured on Wheeler Dealers. After starring on television alongside Mike Brewer and Ant Anstead, the ...

The Mk 1 GTI spawned an entire segment and a long-lived dynasty, but the current car has strayed from what made the badge so ...

The car-geek bug stings everyone differently. It happened to me in 1985, when my father dragged me along to the local Ford dealership to check out a used Ford Tempo. No, it wasn't the Tempo--the ...

If you're a car enthusiast, chances are you probably like the Volkswagen Golf GTI —or at least can respect its excellent performance-to-value ratio and everyday practicality. Full disclosure, this ...

Over a period of seven years, Derek Spratt poured 12,000 hours and $140,000 into a 1983 Volkswagen Rabbit GTI, all in the name of paying tribute to his first car. While that type of craftsmanship and ...

Forty years after the introduction of the Rabbit GTI in the United States in 1983, Volkswagen of America is offering a special 40th Anniversary edition of the hot hatch now called the Golf GTI. The ...

The recipe is familiar. Take a front-wheel-drive economy and add some spice. That's how the Volkswagen Golf GTI reinvented the affordable performance car. With the eighth-generation GTI on the way, VW ...

Like theScion FR-S vs. Datsun 280Z comparo, pitting the 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth against a MkI Volkswagen GTI—for our purposes a 1983 model—is especially challenging because I like both cars quite a bit.

How far would you go to relive your golden days in a car from your carefree days? How does investing $140,000 along with some 12,000 hours modifying it sound to you? Absurd, but that’s exactly what ...

Warning: Seeing a Mk1 Volkswagen GTI in a horrid state of disrepair can cause nausea, dizziness, and heart palpitations. Thankfully, after WD Detailing found this Mk1 GTI that had been sitting in a ...