In two years, it will be time for the Volkswagen Golf to go through the facelift box. Besides minor aesthetic changes, what do you expect?
New Volkswagen Golf (2024) – In danger the Volkswagen Golf since the ramp-up of electrification and the development of the ID range? Nay. Last year, also ignoring the fashion for SUVs, the granny valiantly maintained herself, once again, at the top of sales on European soil, all categories combined. A success that continues unabated over the years, always ensuring comfortable income for the parent company, and which must be maintained despite the intensification of R&D investments in electricity. That is why, in two years, either 4 years after its launch, Volkswagen should refresh the look of its bestseller going hand in hand with a new dose of electrification.
Still alive
Revealed at the end of 2019, before having started its commercial career at the start of 2020, it was feared that the eighth generation of Volkswagen Golf would not recover from the health crisis that has followed it since its debut. Likewise, some observers thought it would bear the brunt of competition from the T-Roc, very similar in size, and riding the wave of raised vehicles. An internal competition which, by the way, shamelessly delighted him with the cabriolet silhouette which nevertheless forged its legend for several decades. But it will take a lot to bend such a myth on 4 wheels. And customers are not mistaken by continuing to renew their loyalty.
Simplified design?
But as always, for almost 50 years, the Golf needs updating, although it always takes care ofevolve gently to spare its aficionados, a bit conservative at heart. Arriving at mid-career, in 2024, he will therefore have to review his face which was sometimes debated, during his revelation. Thereby, its stepped optics could give way to more conventional shapes, while reinforcing its LED light signatures. The whole overhanging a unique shield. This facelift will also see the introduction of new rims, as well as new lights at the stern. Subtle alterations that should not revolutionize the genre.
A little more fingers in the socket
Conversely, the restyling of the Volkswagen Golf will cause bigger upheavals, under the hood. The diesel blocks could purely and simply disappear in order to make way for micro-hybrid petrol engines, while the rechargeable range will expand downwards. The groups currently accumulating 204 and 245 hp should be added lower power levels to counter the 160 hp units fitted to the Renault Mégane or the 180 hp unit which has just been introduced on the Peugeot 308 and Opel Corsa. What do you get for sportives variants? If the GTi label should survive this facelift, what will happen to the boiling 320 hp Golf R? Will maintaining such cavalry in the catalog be tenable in the coming years, when European pollution control standards will have been further strengthened? Unless this level of power is reached thanks to new hybridization solutions.
Volkswagen Golf Price
Launched during 2024, the restyled Volkswagen Golf will also renew its break bodywork, in addition to the 5-door which will logically see its prices swell. At the entry level, you will certainly have to pay plus 29 000 €when the current one claims at least €28,395.
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