Golf GTI

The car that wrote the hot-hatch playbook. For a daily, buy the newest one you can afford — they get safer, faster and comfier with every mark, and Mk5 onward is a properly modern car. Perfect daily, seven out of seven days a week.

• “the Volkswagen GTI is always a great option and it has been for literally generations of car enthusiasts”

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