The Golf GTI: the Porsche 911 of hot hatches

The latest generation of VW's Golf GTI more than lives up to the standards set by the original 1981 model.

"The first Volkswagen Golf GTI, the origin of the species, was, and still is, a little bullet of fun," says Erin Baker in The Daily Telegraph. Can the latest generation, the MkVI, live up to the standards set by the 1981 model?

Well, it almost "seems like heresy to say it", but the 2009 model is even better. When you climb behind the wheel it seems like a heavy, lumbering beast, but once you're on the move, you realise "what a wonderful invention power steering was, ditto servo-assisted brakes".

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