Volkswagen does not want to continue the Golf as the current model with a combustion engine and will no longer offer the new Golf 9.
“If the world develops completely differently than expected by 2026 or 2027, we can also develop a completely new vehicle. But I don’t believe it. This is currently not expected,” Volkswagen CEO Thomas Schäfer said in an interview with the German trade magazine. Automobile Week.
The existing Golf 8 will receive another comprehensive update next year. The car is then ideally positioned to last through the end of this decade, according to Head Car. “Then we will have to see how this part of the market develops.”
Shafer says the Golf name will be kept. “Obviously, we are not giving away famous names like Golf, Tiguan and GTI, but we are bringing them into the world of electric vehicles. But certainly in the Bay Area, the genes have to be right. Just giving that name to a random vehicle is not possible. We are not making that mistake.
According to Schäfer, an all-electric Golf will only come if the golf genes are in it, “more like a flat roof than an ID.3”. This could be the case with the new SSP platform from 2028 at the earliest.
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