The Volkswagen Golf GTI is such a hot hatch institution that many think it was the first. It wasn’t, exactly, though that’s another debate. The question of today is which of the numerous Golf GTIs we’ve seen over the years is the best? We’ve listed the generations from worst to first, with a note made of the best version of each.
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