The MK8 Golf R and GTI Are Great, But The MK7 GTI Was An Instant Classic
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With the recent news of the end of the manual transmission for the GTI and Golf R, the writing is on the wall for one of the all-time-greatest performance cars, in this configuration anyway. They’ll continue building MK8s but the manual is the transmission to consider here.