Volkswagen Golf News

VW ID. GTI Concept revealed

By Tung Nguyen · 04 Sep 2023

Volkswagen will serve up go-faster GTI variants of select ID electric cars, starting off with the ID.2 GTI from 2027.

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Stop buying utes, SUVs when a hatch will do!

By Tim Nicholson · 26 Aug 2023

About 10 to 15 years ago there was a shift in market trends from large, usually inefficient passenger cars to smaller, more frugal models like hatchbacks and compact sedans.

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VW to end manual Golf including GTI

By Chris Thompson · 20 Jun 2023

Emissions regulations set to be introduced in Europe will kill off one of motoring’s longest-serving icons as we know it if they’re passed in their current form. The Volkswagen Golf, which has been available for almost half a century with three pedals and a manual transmission, will go auto-only in its next generation.

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VW Golf 333 debuts as muscular hot hatch

By Chris Thompson · 01 Jun 2023

Volkswagen’s Golf R was given a special version to celebrate the two decades since an R badge (or R32, specifically) appeared on a Golf in Australia, but now it’s Germany’s turn to celebrate one of the most revered modern hot hatches.

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Fastest VW Golf ever celebrates 20 years of R

By Chris Thompson · 25 May 2023

Volkswagen Australia has confirmed it will join in on celebrating 20 years since the ‘R’ badge first appeared on a Golf by offering the Volkswagen Golf R 20 Years locally.

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VW Australia to pump up prices soon

By Chris Thompson · 24 May 2023

Volkswagen Australia has announced it will increase prices for much of its model range, effective July 1 - the second time the brand will increase its pricing this year.

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Why i30 N and WRX are the last of their breed

By Byron Mathioudakis · 30 Apr 2023

The hot hatch class is in crisis.

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Cheaper and more range than Model 3?!

By Tom White · 28 Apr 2023

Cupra says Australia's warm welcome to the brand has allowed to to secure additional supply of its headline-grabbing electric hatchback.

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Mountune brings fast Fords and VWs to Oz

By Chris Thompson · 24 Apr 2023

A British tuning company Mountune, best known to Australians for a recent partnership with Ford for the Focus and Fiesta, is officially making Australia its newest base of operations.

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VW Golf GTI returns to Australia

By Chris Thompson · 11 Apr 2023

The historic hot hatch icon, the Volkswagen Golf GTI, has been absent from Aussie showrooms for some time, but the brand's local arm has now announced its return.Taken off sale here in early December 2022 due to production changes, the Golf GTI is now bac

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