Inovev plans 500,000 units per year for the new VW Golf
- A few weeks after unveiling its new C-segment electric car, the ID 3, Volkswagen introduced the eighth-generation Golf, which remains the best-selling car in Europe and one of the best-selling Volkswagen cars in the world. Even if it did not have the honors of a presentation at the Frankfurt Motor Show 2019, unlike the ID 3, the new Golf will show commercial results much more important than it, since Inovev expects a production of 500 000 units a year, just in Europe. ID 3 will take several years to reach 100,000 units a year, which seems to be its maximum potential in the 2020s. But it is true that the ID 3 will recover some of the customers of the Golf which could have reached 550,000 or even 600,000 units a year in Europe, because both models are in direct competition.
- The new Golf retains almost the dimensions of the old (length: 4.28m, width: 1.79m, height: 1.46m) and its production will be concentrated on the site of Wolfsburg (Germany) and no longer on two different sites (Wolfsburg and Zwickau) as before. ID 3 has taken its place on the Zwickau site.
- The new Golf is still based on the MQB platform. It is equipped with the following engines: on the one hand gasoline 3 cylinders 1.0 TSI (90hp and 110hp), 4 cylinders 1.5 TSI (130hp and 150hp) and 1.4 TSI hybrid rechargeable (204hp and 245hp), on the other hand the diesel 4 2.0 TDI cylinders (115hp and 150hp), the 1.6 TDI 4 cylinder was not selected for this new Golf. Finally, the 100% electric version is not renewed since it is replaced by ID 3.
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