The original Volkswagen Rabbit (known by most of the rest of the world as the Golf MK1) is beloved for being a humble subcompact hatch. It’s one of the cars that popularized front-wheel drive in ...

So you want a pickup truck, but all the modern half-tons are just too big. Even the little ones, the Rangers and Colorados and Tacomas, are so tall and squared-off and aggressive — it's all too much.

Seventy years after the inception of HOT ROD, the idea that you can hot rod anything has evolved into many different facets. The SEMA show has become, in many ways, the embodiment of all those ...

View post: Car Prices Hit $50,000. Now the U.S. Wants to Ease Emissions Rules Autoblog wasn’t around for the literal first drive review, but as they say, it’s better late than never. Take a trip down ...

Front-engined hatchbacks are just a normal part of life now, but when the Volkswagen Rabbit came along, they were something new and exciting. The small family-oriented Rabbit hatch that replaced the ...

I only drove the Rabbit briefly, but my overwhelming impression is that it oozes quality and refinement for an $18,000 car. There is nothing about it that feels cheap, from the nicely damped exterior ...

Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...

Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe GTI represents, if not the first hot hatch, then at least the category's quintessential archetype. Let's see if this muscly Rabbit should easily have a buyer typing up ...

The content on this page was created using generative artificial intelligence powered only by Cars.com articles and edited by Cars.com’s Editorial team for accuracy. The Volkswagen Rabbit debuted in ...