Motorcycle engines come in all shapes and sizes. Single-cylinder thumpers, parallel twins, inline-threes, high-revving fours, burly V4s and V-twins, even the occasional flat-eight. But one layout ...

Every once in a while, we’re blown away by a particularly tuned car that simply devours the drag strip. And this second-gen VW Golf ticks all the right boxes. On the outside, it has a few decals, ...