Homage to Golf Country Goes Anywhere _ Most vehicles couldn’t make it up this road, and most people wouldn’t even think of it, let alone call it one. But there we were, edging ever higher on an unmarked logging road on the side of a mountain in rural Germany, testing the off-road capabilities of the 2016 VW Golf Alltrack. Live… Read more →
Check Box for Wagon _ I test drove a handful of new Golfs during a recent trip to Germany. This 2015 VW Golf R Sportwagen is one of them. My travel cohorts and I each got seat time on and off the autobahns, as well as some interesting secondary roads in between Munich airport and the small, lakeside town of… Read more →
Hot Hatch 4 Life! _ The Golf has long been VW’s bread and butter. More than 30,000,000 of them have been sold since 1974. The first-generation Golf GTI (Mk1 or Mark 1) came a few years later, and was an instant hit upon arriving in European stores in ’76. By the time it came to Canadian showrooms in ’84 –… Read more →
Last week I was in freezing c-c-c-c-o-old Quebec to test drive the new 2010 VW Golf family. And, after driving up north to Ste. Jovite in a three-door 2.5-litre gas powered model and the new 2-litre turbo clean diesel wagon with DSG auto and tush warming, it was time for some fun and fast laps to get the blood circulating.… Read more →
