Wagon to join Golf range
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Brands under the VW umbrella have some on the way in the form of the A5 Sportback and Skoda Superb Combi, and Volkwagen also has a Golf Estate on the way early next year. For Sportback, Combi and Estate, read station wagon in Aussie lingo.
The Golf is based on the European Golf 5, but has been given a styling makeover to bring it into the Golf 6 line, with new front fascia, lights, interior touches and more prominent exhaust tips.
The Golf in hatch form has a choice of four engines, but Volkwagen Australia says it will not bring all of those. “We’ll probably limit the number of engines … it won’t be as many as in the hatch,” their spokesman Karl Gehling says. “It would make the line-up too complex if we had every variant.” However there are no further details other than ‘every second Volkwagen is a diesel’.
And with Volkswagen’s diesel reputation in Australia it would be a fairly safe guess that one of the engines will be a diesel, and with their stated goals of continually improving economy the other is likely to be the frugal 90kW turbocharged petrol, while the diesel could be either the 77kW 1.6-litre or the 103kW 2.0-litre.
Or both… Transmissions will most likely be a six-speed manual and the twin-clutch DSG automatic in either six or seven speeds depending on the engines.
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