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Coming in around $30k, the Volkswagen GTI and Subaru WRX may not be the most obvious of rivals, but they offer similar fun at a similar price point and as such, are cross-shopped quite often. Even still, they are quite similar fundamentally. Both have turbocharged four-cylinder power. Both are synonyms for inexpensive fun. And both have a lot to live up to.

As a genre-defining model with very few missteps along the way, Volkswagen has their work cut out for them each time a GTI refresh comes along. In the past decade, this challenge has been made even more difficult by the introduction of serious competitors to the US market from Ford, Subaru and others. Luckily, Volkswagen has not rested on their laurels for the seventh generation car, bringing experts from Porsche to tweak the GTI’s suspension, and developing a third generation of their EA888 2.0 TSI, good for 220hp and 258ft-lbs tq straight from the factory. Clearly the new GTI came to play.

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