CAR magazine UK scoops the all-new ninth-generation Volkswagen Golf
revealed soon. Physical switchgear on the steering wheel makes a return, too, after the ham-fisted introduction of haptic panels didn’t go down all too well.
After that, though, comes a bigger revolution with the Golf Mk9, with Schafer saying the brand’s development of the new model is ‘full throttle, with no compromise.’ Here’s all we know about the new generation.The biggest news is that the all-new Golf will be battery-electric only. Not much of a shocker, given current automotive trends, but one that hadn’t been officially confirmed up to now.
‘There will be a Golf [in the future], and it will be a true Golf in terms of packaging and driveability,’ adds Schafer. ‘In the line-up that we are proposing up to 2028, we will probably put the Golf directly on the SSP platform.’ SSP is the Volkswagen Group’s silver bullet. No sets of platforms for different classes of car . There’ll be just one enormously scalable toolkit that can, figuratively, shrink as small as a VW city car or power a mega-sized luxury SUV from Bentley. The first cars on SSP are expected to launch from 2026, and Volkswagen AG says it expects up to 40 million vehicles across the Group brands are likely to be built using SSP by 2030.
Another point to make is that, under the current strategy, the Golf won’t be linked to an ID nameplate – we won’t see a car called the ID.Golf, for example. ‘Iconic names that are definitely decided and that will be carried into the future are Golf, Tiguan and GTI. The others [like Polo, Passat etc.] we will look at as a case-by-case basis,’ Schafer tells us after the reveal of the
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