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There is a chance that American
buyers will have fewer
to choose from, when the next generation car rolls around.
that the eighth-generation Golf will only be sold as the
and R variants in the U.S, and no vanilla models or a wagon version will be offered.
Motor1
cites a Volkswagen employee who reportedly told the website at a California event that only the performance versions of the next-gen Golf will be sold in the States — in other words,
is dropping the standard models and any SportWagen from the U.S. Golf palette. We have also reached out to Volkswagen for an official statement. The next-gen car is to be expected to debut this fall.
In 2018, the compact segment fell by 12.3 percent, and there are numbers to back up VW’s decision if the news turns out to hold true: the GTI is said to have outsold the regular Golf last year at a ratio of three-to-one, and the performance versions consisted of nearly half of all Golf sales. Base Golfs formed just two percent of VW’s overall U.S. sales, with 6,612 hatchbacks sold according to official VW figures. That’s not exactly great, and the sales actually more than halved compared to 2017. In comparison, VW sold over 90,000
; significantly fewer than the nearly 116,000 it sold the previous year, but in this light the Jetta is far less likely to be endangered than the regular Golf. Some 14,000 wagons were sold, which also represents halved sales compared to the previous year.
There’s also a likelihood that the
and the crossoveresque Alltrack will also get the shove, as VW can replace the e-Golf completely with the production version of its
, sometimes dubbed the Neo, and the Alltrack more or less needs a SportWagon for it to be based on. For a number of Volkswagen customers, the GTI is the Golf worth getting, and the shrinking passenger car market can make it tough to justify a regular hatch’s availability, especially with those sales figures.\
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