Introduced in 1997, the MK4 generation of Volkswagen Golf was a revelation, preparing the Wolfsburg-based company to embrace the 21st century with modern designs, technological advancement ...

the first Volkswagen Golf R32 was based on the MK4 Golf platform, and it propelled the hot hatch genre into an entirely new dimension by adding all-wheel drive to its tried-and-true formula.

This combination of disappointing handling and unimpressive speed has led many to believe the Mk4 GTI was a bad car. It ...

Volkswagen had more competition than ever ... The most interesting variant of the Mk4 Golf from an enthusiast's perspective didn't arrive until later in its production run. The GTI was considered ...

Volkswagen's performance-oriented R brand kicked ... respectable 241 pferdestarke and 320 Newton-meters of twist in the Mk4 Golf R32. That's 237 mechanical ponies and 236 pound-feet at ...

When 1997 rolled around, Volkswagen was ready to move onto the Mk4 model of the Golf, but that year also saw the reintroduction of a car that Volkswagen had originally been trying to phase out.

Believe it or not, it’s now 27 years since the Volkswagen Golf Mk4 first appeared. Yet despite its advancing years, the design approach of evolution rather than revolution means that, even today, the ...

Yes, we know. After the Golf Mk1, 2 and to a lesser extent the Mk3, cemented the Volkswagen Golf GTI as the hot hatch of choice, things went a bit awry with the Mk4. But that was a while ago. Move ...

VW switched names of the hatch and sedan and started selling them as the Golf City and Jetta City. As you might expect, the range of options was a bit more limited for this facelifted Mk4 model.

The Mk4 was a high point in terms of simple yet dynamic ... At 60 million years old, it has some legs on the Golf still. Then again, Volkswagen has promised that unlike the Polo, Passat and Beetle, ...