New VW Golf GTI Mk8: on sale in 2019 with big power boost

[am1w]

325bhp!

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/volkswagen/golf/92375/new-vw-golf-gti-mk8-on-sale-in-2019-with-big-power-boost?_mout=1&utm_campaign=autoexpress_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

[Snooze]

Oh dear, that looks s**t!

[Misterp]

The front mmmm ok the back fugly. I know it's only a prototype avoid at all costs looks like the old Vauxhall signam back end

[James75]

So it's 2015 and Autoexpress know what the Golf is going to look like in 2019...


I smell something...

It won't look like this

Quote

"images reveal how it could look"




James

[Booth11]

So it's 2015 and Autoexpress know what the Golf is going to look like in 2019...


I smell something...

It won't look like this

Quote

"images reveal how it could look"

James

Remember all the 'vision' images of how the Mk7 was going to look back pre 2012.  Well the Mk7 came out not looking remotely like any of them.  Thank God!  Some of those mock ups were either super chav or just grim.

I'd take the Autoexpress article with a very large pinch of salt.

[monkeyhanger]

It won't look like that and it won't be a 325ps powerhouse, the standard R won't be up to 425ps either. The usual lazy fantasy journalism we come to expect from them.

[Booth11]

It won't look like that and it won't be a 325ps powerhouse, the standard R won't be up to 425ps either. The usual lazy fantasy journalism we come to expect from them.

I'm still laughing at that wild claim 

Bless Autoexpress blind optimism. 

[star93]

Looks very RS3ish

[fredgroves]

olkswagen has lifted the lid on the type of technology we could be about to see on the VW Golf Mk8.

The next-generation hatch, revealed in our exclusive images, will not only be lighter than the current model, but more powerful, more economical and offer significantly smarter technology to give greater connectivity – the likes of which could set the Golf as the class’ benchmark five-door hatchback.

Lighter and more economical for sure - probably because Euro7 will have been agreed by then and it will need to meet it.

Class benchmark? Well, the mid sized VAG car will be the class benchmark, not necessarily the VW branded one.

VW has spilled the beans to Auto Express on the type of technology it’s preparing to roll out in its model range in the coming few years – and we’ve got it on good authority that the vast majority of it will make its way into the Golf.

How many stories and press releases about next gen VW tech have there been so far this year? Some of it will end up in the Golf.... really? outstanding journalism here guys.

[monkeyhanger]

Autoexpress Golf MK9 test drive:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyinD6ZDqeg