If you want a fully custom hot hatch right now, you can just buy a used Golf GTI and find a million parts online. You'll see dozens of engine bolt-ons, interior goodies, and even some widebody kits.

Normally, you wouldn't pit a Toyota GR Corolla against a Volkswagen Golf GTI, even though both of them technically belong in the same hot hatchback category. If you want a fair comparison, you need a ...

The new wave of hot-hatching has given birth to full-fat monsters, producing in excess of 300 HP, but back in the 1990s things were simpler. Much simpler. In 1992, having 126 HP on your supermini was ...

This video features a modified Peugeot 205 GTI 6 with 245HP and explores its performance against the 208 GTI, a car 30 years newer, which also has modifications. ‘I could’: Barnaby’s explosive One ...

Four decades have passed, give or take, since Volkswagen Golf GTI owners in the States - we got the GTI a few years after Europe did - started bolting on Koni shocks, Monza dual-tip exhausts and Kamei ...

This video features a modified Peugeot 205 GTI 6 with 245HP and explores its performance against the 208 GTI, a car 30 years newer, which also has modifications. Greenland's defiant seven-word ...