It’s truly a marvel of automotive irony that the Golf GTI, a car that stands for driving purity and mechanical delight, is now in a state of existential dread, a relic in a world dominated by SUVs. Volkswagen has managed to turn a tribute to a classic into a bitter joke, pulling the plug on the manual transmission option just when we need it most. It’s like serving a fine wine with a plastic fork. The 380 model is a noble attempt at a farewell, but it’s just a drop in the bucket of VW’s 2.0-liter engine saga. The GTI, once the epitome of balance between practicality and performance, is now stuck in a time warp where the real-world fun has been replaced by an electronic interface that might as well be trying to tell you the weather. If the GTI was a person, it’d be a frustrated oldtimer, waving a walking stick at the new generation for forsaking the good old days.
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