How does the Volkswagen Golf compare to the Volkswagen Golf GTI? Check out all the vital info side-by-side from pricing to performance specs.Now in its eight generation, this powered-up VW Golf variant is very different to the original, but is still plowing the same "plenty of pace for not too much cash" furrow (although it's more
The big difference between the Volkswagen Golf and GTI Just like VW of Palm Springs wrote, the GTI isn't actually that different from the regular Golf. In fact, technically speaking, the GTI is called the Golf GTI since it's more or less a trim of the Golf.
Linguists trace the term back to the Italian "Gran Turismo Iniezione". In simple terms, GTI means the engine bears a direct injection system. The direct injection might seem common today and not worth mentioning but in 1976 when VW introduced the system, there was nothing better. .