« Reply #108 on: 03 March 2019, 11:28 »
A dealer told me today that they don't expect a performance golf until 2021. Make of that what you will.
That may be right. Carwow are now reporting that the GTI and R won't be available for a full two years after the new car's initial launch with 1.0 and 1.5 petrol engines available.
Depends where carwow’s website people are lifting their info from.
If they’re collating press reports from European ‘scoop’ type magazines sites or actually being drip fed from industry insiders directly. Personally I think there’s a lot of guesstimates in that article.
Even VW UK seem in the dark about most of it which isn’t unusual. I remember at the launch of the mk7 they were debating publicly whether they’d even bother importing the R after poor mk6 R sales. Then the 7R became one of the best selling model’s in the range after they ballsed up with the cheap leases expecting them to have high residuals like the sought after but rare 6R!
Since dieselgate VW seem ever more inconsistent and rudderless.
https://www.carwow.co.uk/volkswagen/golf/news/2367/volkswagen-golf-mk8-2017-price-specs-and-release-date
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