« on: 17 July 2016, 14:46 »
The Golf GTE, born out of a global requirement to reduce emissions (I never describe these cars as low pollution as the manufacture of them plus the electric and fuel they consume all pollute somewhere along the line, just theoretically less sh!te out of the exhaust in the immediate surroundings) but probably viewed by the average GTI enthusiast as a bit of a cop out along the lines of the mk1 GTD back in the late '70's.
So I'm guessing that unless you live in Northern France, Belgium maybe and of course the Netherlands plus possibly Anglia in the UK you're not going to see much battery life with all that weight going round countless bends and more so up hills. Then you also have a 1.4 petrol engine to double up as a generator and assist the battery with the hills.
Now, I appreciate that they probably look very attractive to company car buyers (who presumably aren't that bothered by driving dynamics) and are possibly even more attractive to people that live in cities like London (Manchester too?) that have low emissions zones where driving dynamics become irrelevant but who else would buy one?
I for one accept that vehicles like this are probably going to take over the world in the near future and that it's early technology yet but what are they like to drive?
The mk1 GTD was slow and vibrated like buggery and a far cry from what we now know the GTD as, so how does its modern equivalent in the trend setting of future Golfs shape up?
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