It was a good run. But Volkswagen's long romance with the manual transmission is about to end in the United States. Beginning with the 2027 model year, the VW Jetta GLI will no longer offer a ...

With the Jetta GLI losing that option, the stick shift drops below the waves at VW, in North America at least. Volkswagen will discontinue the 6-speed manual transmission in the Jetta GLI after the ...

Reston, Virginia — Et tu, GTI? The manual transmission-operated automobile has shrunk to a niche, performance market in recent years as automatic transmissions have been favored by customers for their ...

A new kid will soon be on the all-wheel-drive hot hatch block: the latest iteration VW Golf R. The German automaker just took to the World Wide Web to reveal most of its secrets, including the power ...

Volkswagen's U.S. sedan line-up looks pretty sparse these days, though that doesn't exactly single the automaker out among its rivals. With the venerable Passat bowing out of North America after the ...

Summit Point, West Virginia — WAUUGGGGH! At West Virginia’s premier Summit Point Motorsports complex, I wrung the 2025 Volkswagen Golf GTI’s neck through the Jefferson Circuit’s technical Turn 2-3-4-5 ...

Use the table of contents to jump to a section The 2025 Volkswagen Jetta GLI compact sports sedan comes with a 2.0-liter ...

Old cars are better, and there is absolutely nothing anyone can say that will make me change my mind about it. I am, of course, talking about those cars made of iron and skill. Those cars require a ...

Automakers like Porsche continue to offer stick shift vehicles for enthusiasts. As we recently reported, stick shift vehicles are making a comeback — sales are up a few percentage points and climbing.

American consumers in particular coveted the stick, which made up a healthy 35-40% of sales in a car market that has few manual transmissions. But Europe, VW’s home market, has largely moved on from ...