Volkswagen Golf 2010 Video Review

How to make the Volkswagen Golf R feel a little lardy and quiet? Jump into the lively GTI.  There's no doubting the R is anything but tardy, but the GTI has more brattish upstart about it.

I'm a big fan of proper all-wheel drive systems, not these reactive front-drivers, and the R was certainly worthy, but there's something a little more entertaining about the GTI.  It could be the tartan interior that harks back to the original VW Golf GTi of several decades past.

What was supposed to be a special-edition small production run has now racked up more than 1.7 million sales globally and it has long been the benchmark hot hatch.

Read the full Volkswagen Golf GTI DSG 2010 review.