EXCLUSIVE: The Volkswagen Golf will be reborn as a redesigned compact EV, with a €22,500 target price and a hot GTI variant
“The GTX is dead,” a senior source revealed to Autocar. “A decision has already been made to replace it with the traditional GTI name and it is being considered for the ID 2.”
By comparison, today’s petrol Golf GTI is fitted with a turbocharged 2.0-litre fourcylinder petrol engine with 245bhp and has a 0-62mph time of 6.2sec. Additional changes centre on the MIB infotainment system. They include the provision for a rotary controller within a heavily revised centre console – a development that will initially appear on the third-generationThe rotary controller, a first for a Volkswagen, is intended to supplement the touchscreen controls fitted to current Volkswagen models. It is designed to replace the slider mechanism first introduced on the ID 3 in 2020.
Schäfer is understood to have had reservations about the Project Trinity’s liftback-style saloon design and Volkswagen designers are now working to establish it as a crossover-style model in the mould of the.
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