SPIED: Volkswagen's MKVII Golf Is Already Being Tested, It's Coming SOONER Than You Think

CAR Magazine reports:

"The new Volkswagen Golf Mk7 is nearer than you think. Although the Golf Mk6 only arrived in late 2008, CAR understands the new, seventh-generation VW Golf lands in September 2012, with a raft of new engines and bodystyles.

The VW Golf is the sweetspot of the Volkswagen range; get it right, and the entire group will thrive. Get it wrong, and the balance sheets will be blotched with red ink. It does therefore not come as a surprise that chairman Martin Winterkorn, R&D chief Ulrich Hackenberg and design supremo Walter de Silva want to make 100% sure that the next Golf is spot-on.

A few days after the 2009 Frankfurt motor show, the number of proposals was reduced from three to two. VW has almost certainly now crowned a winner. CAR's spies up in Scandinavia this week papped this Golf engineering mule, whose wider track points to this being a development hack for the new, bigger Golf Mk7..."

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veyron1001 - 2/7/2010 11:16:43 AM

+2 Boost

wouldnt it make the car more powerful than the non GTI gas model?