Production chronology1976–open
Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.
curated ↗1 year
← Volkswagen
Volkswagen / Model record
VolkswagenGTI
Production1976 – present
Recorded originGermany
ClassHatchback
Performance derivative of the Volkswagen Golf, combining the Golf hatchback body with uprated engines, suspension and trim across successive generations.
Chronology ledger
Dates with their meaning intact
US EPA model years1986–2026
Model years represented in FuelEconomy.gov; a US-market observation, not a worldwide production range.
EPA FuelEconomy.gov ↗Observed bounds
Canadian NRCan model years1995–2013
Model years in Natural Resources Canada retail fuel-consumption data; Canadian-market evidence, not a worldwide production range.
Natural Resources Canada ↗19 years
Netherlands RDW first-admission observations1982–2019
First-admission years observed in Dutch vehicle registrations; this is market evidence, not a worldwide production range.
Netherlands RDW ↗38 years
Record depth — Documented
How this is measured → This record contains useful sourced evidence, but it does not yet meet the reference-ready standard. Still needed: attributed imagery. Fields we cannot source stay empty rather than guessed.