50 years of GTI! Is Volkswagen's latest the greatest? | Henry Catchpole - The Driver’s Seat

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It’s a high bar, but the VW Golf GTI Edition 50 might just be the best GTI in the model’s illustrious history. In this episode of The Driver’s Seat, Henry Catchpole bounces a ball on a pitching wedge and tests the latest (and greatest?) GTI on some spectacular moorland roads as well as heading to Bedford Autodrome for a track day. Henry also looks back at some of Volkswagen’s wilder GTI concepts and discusses whether the mk8.5 has fixed any or all of the mk8’s litany of issues.

One thing that should be made clear straight away is that the Golf GTI Edition 50 needs the optional Performance...