NEW GOLF UNCOVERED
New Golf baldheaded The MkVII adaptation of VW fable gets added space, hi-tech kit and assurance features
The all-new VW Golf is advancing – and Auto Express has the best pictures yet. The MkVII is due to admission at next year’s Paris Motor Show, and go on auction anon afterwards. It’s been rebuilt from the arena up to accommodate added space, technology and assurance appearance than any antecedent bearing of the iconic hatch.
As the cornerstone of the VW range, it will spawn a host of new models, including a alehouse – for the aboriginal time – a applied Golf Plus, an acreage and a backup for the Touran MPV, as able-bodied as a hot new Scirocco coupé. They are all due in 2013, with a new Tiguan and a backup for the Golf Cabriolet appointed for the afterward year.
But the key archetypal is this five-door hatch, which our illustrators accept recreated application central information. Together with images of prototypes bent testing in Germany, they accord us a bright abstraction of how next year’s a lot of agitative new ancestors car will look. As ever, the changes are evolutionary – but architectonics bang-up Walter de’Silva has set out to accord the administration a sportier feel. The foreground appearance a raked windscreen, two-bar grille and LED lights, while a aboveboard tailgate and avant-garde wheelarches mark out the rear.
Other architectonics cues cover affecting slashes in the abandon – but there are big changes beneath the skin, too. The car is based on a new architectonics alleged MQB, and the wheelbase has been lengthened. This is advised to accomplish the newcomer added able than the antecedent chassis.
The MkVII will accept a beyond cossack than rivals such as the Ford Focus and Renault Mégane, and promises added rear legroom, too. New engines and a host of hi-tech options will aswell be available. A avant-garde ambit of TSI turbocharged editions will accompany the line-up. They will alpha with an able 1.2-litre 85bhp powerplant that allotment 60mpg and emits beneath than 100g/km of CO2 for entry-level models.
There will aswell be a 1.4-litre unit, additional a new flagship 2.0-litre petrol turbo. This will bear 220bhp in the next GTI, and 300bhp in a accessible four-wheel-drive R model. Diesel options will cover 1.6 and 2.0-litre TDI engines. All models will get stop-start as standard, and VW aswell affairs a 100mpg constituent hybrid, a balmy amalgam and an all-electric version, alleged the e_BlueMotion.
Entry-level cars will drive the foreground auto through a six-speed chiral gearbox, while flagship variants are accepted to action the firm’s seven-speed DSG semi-automatic gearbox. And that’s not all, because the new Golf promises class-leading technology, too.
As with Ford’s latest Focus, an ‘eye’ installed in the foreground bonanza will accommodate automated acceleration absolute warnings. It will aswell accord a hotlink to the avant-garde lane abandonment admonishing set-up. The new Golf will aswell be accessible with a arrangement that helps the car abstain low-speed collisions, additional blindspot ecology and adaptive cruise control.
Inside, an avant-garde cruise computer is accepted to action Web access, as able-bodied as the actual latest sat-nav and buzz connectivity systems. It will be a while afore the MkVII hits the road, but it looks set to be able-bodied account the wait.
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