VW Golf VII wagon leaked
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The images largely refer to it as the Golf Variant, but it's a good bet to be the next Volkswagen Golf wagon -- and likely to be revealed at the Geneva motor show this week.
There's little news in the look, with the wagon echoing the Golf hatch from the nose to the B-pillar. Further back it gets a longer rear overhang to form the wagon body, with what looks like a deeper opening making for a lower load floor.
It also gets different taillight clusters with a rounded inner shape, and the photos show metal roof rails fitted.
There are no details yet on the drivetrains, but you can expect it to follow the current model's line-up of both petrol and diesel engines, plus manual and auto transmissions -- but reflect the changes seen in the Golf VII hatch.
The 118TSI 1.4-litre engine is gone, with the two turbocharged petrols for launch being a 64kW 1.2-litre promising 4.9L/100km and a 103kW 1.4-litre that VW says will get 4.8L/100km with the help of cylinder deactivation that shuts down two cylinders between 1400-4000rpm. Other petrols are likely to join the range later, including different tunes of the 1.2 and 1.4, and possibly a larger capacity unit.
On the oilburner side there’s a tweak of the current 77kW 1.6-litre turbodiesel which VW claims will return 3.8L/100km and a Bluemotion version which promises 3.2L/100km. A revised version of the current 2.0-litre oilburner – including changing its alignment to improve cooling – also raises it to 110kW and delivers 4.0L/100km.
The Volkswagen Golf wagon is likely to go on sale in Europe late this year, and may make it here by the end of the year or early 2014
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