VW Golf And Golf GTI Will Dwell On, Subsequent-Era Mannequin Would possibly Be Referred to as The ID. Golf

This summer season, studies out of Germany urged the present Volkswagen Golf might be the final as the corporate focuses on electrical automobiles.

Nonetheless, in an interview with Autocar, Volkswagen Passenger Vehicles CEO Thomas Schäfer urged that’s not the case. As he famous, “We’d not let go of the Golf identify, no method.”

Schäfer went on to clarify, “Now we have iconic model names, Golf and GTI. It might be loopy to allow them to die and slip away.” Nonetheless, the names would possibly change barely as “there’s a reference to VW and ID,” so the next-generation mannequin might doubtlessly change into the “ID. Golf.”

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After all, that begs the query of what is going to occur to the Golf-like ID.3. Schäfer contends there’s room for each fashions to be offered alongside each other because the ID. 3 has “by no means been a successor to the Golf, it’s extra a Golf Plus.” For these unfamiliar with the mannequin, the Golf Plus was a bigger MPV-like car that was constructed between 2004 and 2014, and changed by the Golf Sportsvan.

Because of this, the theoretical ID. Golf might slot beneath the ID. 3, whereas the ID. Golf GTI and, presumed, ID. Golf R would attraction to fans. That being mentioned, any such modifications are a methods off as Volkswagen is engaged on a facelifted Golf and the eighth-generation mannequin is anticipated to stay on sale for 5 – 6 extra years.

Whereas followers could be dismayed by the considered an electrical Golf GTI, it appears inevitable because the European Union is ready to ban the sale of recent petrol and diesel passenger automobiles beginning in 2035. Comparable bans are being enacted elsewhere and that is leaving automakers with little selection however to go electrical.