Although North America has to wait until the fall for the new Golf GTI, the European launch has already begun this month. So here’s the first German commercial for the 207 hp hot hatch titled, “Only for the advanced: the new Golf GTI.”
Check out the "behind the scenes" video in Los Angeles after the jump.
We’re going to have to wait until the fall to get our hands on Volkswagen’s Golf VI GTI (VW is already churning them out for them European market,) so hopefully a new image gallery will help tie us over until then. The GTI is powered by a 207 hp turbo engine. It makes the 0 to 60 mph sprint in 7.2 seconds and can hit a top speed of 148 mph.
Usually we’re jealous of cars that are available only in Europe, but now our envy is traveling to Asia for a Singapore-only Volkswagen. The Golf V GTI is going out with a bang in the Orient with a model called the V50. The 2.0-liter turbo four-cylinder engine goes from 197 hp engine and is upgraded to 250 hp (40 more than the new Golf VI GTI), and the 0 to 60 mph time drops from 7.2 seconds to 5.6. This Audi S3-like power and performance is courtesy of a Stage 1 ECU tuning.
The package also includes Pirelli “P Zero” 18-inch alloy wheels and tires, and an upgrade to the brakes and brake discs and calipers from the Golf R32. While we don’t have any pricing info on the package, it does come with a three-year warranty from VW.
We don’t always make it to every press event. Our budget doesn’t necessarily have room for occasions like the European press introduction for the Volkswagen Golf GTI. No big deal, we just missed out on driving a 207 hp hot hatch on the backroads of St. Tropez in costal southern France... Damn the bean counters.
Volkswagen is hard at work on the new Golf R20. Then again, we’d all like to consider testing a car at the Nurburgring work.
This car was disguised as a 2.0 TDI Golf VI, so there really isn’t much to show from the spy shot except the tell-tale central dual exhaust. By the time the car makes its debut (possibly as early as May,) we can expect a full ground-hugging body kit in a similar fashion to the R32.
The R20 will be taking the place of the R32 with a smaller and lighter 2.0-liter engine. It’s a similar unit available in the GTI, but with more boost produce 270 hp. The R20 should be a close cousin to Audi’s S3, so we expect the R20 to have a 0 to 60 mph time in the similar five second range.
Volkswagen revealed today at the Auto Mobil International in Leipzig the LPG version of the Golf Plus: a bivalent drive that can easily switch over to gasoline driving.
In Autogas mode, the Golf Plus BiFuel’s 1.6 liter four-cylinder engine outputs a power of 98 hp and consumes an average of 9.8 liters of LPG per 100 kilometers (159 g/km CO2). In gasoline mode, the Golf Plus BiFuel consumes a still economical 7.5 liters Super per 100 kilometers (179 g/km CO2).
With a single recharge the car is supposed to be capable of 1,100 kilometers (in LPG mode the car’s range is about 440 kilometers).
We still have to wait for the fall to get the new Volkswagen Golf GTI (it debuts later this spring in Europe.) So there is still plenty of time for us to get excited about a new video and image gallery.
The original hot hatch still has the right moves for frugal-minded fanboy. It has a 207 hp turbocharged engine that also gets an average of 31 MPG.
From the ‘things you pretty much already knew’ bin comes the return of the Golf (name). Volkswagen spent a lot of time cutting out an image for the Golf in the U.S., and then with the last generation it switched back to the original name of Rabbit. Although cute, it may have caused a little confusion, VW has learned its lesson. According to Jochen Sengpiehl, executive director of Volkswagen marketing, "The car will be called the Golf again in North America."
Volkswagen is going in an interesting direction with the new Golf and has created a high-performance diesel car. Instead of GTI, this one will be called the GTD. It should get much of the appearance and suspension packages that comes on the GTI, but it will just have to fuel up at a different pump.
Powering the GTD will be a 2.0-liter four-cylinder TDI engine making 170 hp. While this is the quickest diesel Golf, the 0 - 60 mph time of 8.2 seconds put it a least a second behind the 207 hp GTI. But fuel economy is the GTD’s savior. It’s 40 mpg will be a noticeable increase over the GTI’s 31 mpg.
We’ll get out first official glimpse at this performance oil burner at the Auto Mobil International (AMI) show in Leipzig, Germany (March 28 to April 5) and sales should begin in Europe later this summer. Because VW is choosing the very European AMI show to debut the GTD, it may be a clear indication that the North America will not get a version.
Since the first generation was launched and until now, Volkswagen sold more than 1.7 million GTI worldwide. Now this success history will go even further with the debut of the sixth generation GTI at the Paris Auto Show. Sales will begin in spring 2009.
With a top speed of 148 mph and 207 hp turbo engine, the new GTI offers even more fun to drive, but with a fuel consumption of only 7.5 liters per 100 kilometers.
The Golf GTI comes with an unique combination of agile and athletic engine. At 1800 rpm the engine develops a maximum torque of 280 Nm. After only 7,2 seconds the sprint from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) is completed.
The GTI features an electronic limited-slip differential called XDS and the Scirocco’s adaptive chassis. At the exterior the new GTi is inspired by the Golf GTI W12 concept, there’s a wide, one-piece lower-grille which is far more aggressive than the three-piece design on the fifth-generation GTI. It features foglights, a narrow upper-grille featuring red-banding and a rear diffuser which features twin exhausts.
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