Golf Gt Review

This mk7 version is lighter than before and in facelifted post 2016 guise.

Golf gt review. A six speed automatic costs extra but its almost as much fun as the manual. There has been a volkswagen golf gti on sale for as long as any of the current autocar road test team has been alive. Thats significantly higher than the average starting price of a new compact car which is closer to 19000. Because half a million europeans a year among them some 70000 brits cant all be wrong.

Vw has seen fit to tweak the popular formula with some subtle styling changes engine updates improved safety tech and fancier infotainment systems. Read volkswagen golf r line trim review with the vw golf gt the firm has made a car that offers some of the visual and driving excitement of the legendary golf gti but at a more attainable. The standard powertrain is a 220 hp turbo 20 liter inline four with a six speed manual. It comes standard with a 170 hp turbo inline four and a six speed manual.

This iconic hot hatch balances fun and function as few can do and continues to win a spot on our 10best cars list for 2018. Since the original was launched in 1974. For 2018 volkswagen golf gti starting prices range between 26415 and 36170. A six speed automatic is available.

The current vw golf is the mk7 which was introduced in 2012. Give it up for the gti. When a car as important as the volkswagen golf gets updated renewed and generally smartened up we all simply need to sit up and take notice. Although other manufacturers have been dabbling in hot hatches for close to four decades none comes close to imprinting a single model identity on the segment in the way that vw has done.

Actually its now known as the golf mk75 as it received an update in 2017 to help it stay. A crowd pleasing endlessly popular device that covers every base 999 per cent of the population could ever want or need it to. However its in the same neighborhood as retail prices of the subaru wrx and the high performance ford focus st. The golf is responsive predictable and genuinely fun to drive.

The golf is to hatchbacks what the mercedes s class is to luxury limos or the iphone is to mobile telephones. Das auto or the car to us brits used to be volkswagens strapline and for many the volkswagen golf really is das auto of choice. The volkswagen golf is newly updated for 2017.