Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe GTI represents, if not the first hot hatch, then at least the category's quintessential archetype. Let's see if this muscly Rabbit should easily have a buyer typing up ...

View post: A New Japanese Brand Emerges—And It Made a Car in Just 9 Months If you saw my write-up on the 1984 Volkswagen Rabbit GTI, you probably took note of the fact that I called out the little ...

The original 1984 Volkswagen Rabbit GTI is one of the all-time greats—a wheeled ball of joy that can still put a smile on your face nearly 40 years after it first arrived on U.S. shores. But there's a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last month, Volkswagen held its first annual Chattanooga Motorcar Festival, the final day of which included a classic car rally that kicked off at Coker Tire, a famous tire company and automotive ...

The modern car is a technological wonder. Quiet, connected and smooth, it’s the rolling equivalent of a soothing, electronic pop song. But sometimes I get nostalgic for a raspy rocker with a string ...

If you saw my write-up on the 1984 Volkswagen Rabbit GTI, you probably took note of the fact that I called out the little vintage hatchback for being pretty shouty when cruising on the highway, but ...