"Andrew T. Maness" (theroadlessdriven)
11/22/2014 at 14:10 • Filed to: GOLF ALLTRAK, Sportwagen, Volkswagen, Andrew Maness, The Road Less Driven, America, Awesome, Subaru, New Car, News, Auto Show
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"Andrew T. Maness" (theroadlessdriven)
11/22/2014 at 14:10 • Filed to: GOLF ALLTRAK, Sportwagen, Volkswagen, Andrew Maness, The Road Less Driven, America, Awesome, Subaru, New Car, News, Auto Show | 1
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Give yourself a pat on the back, hug your kids, smoke that cigar. Go ahead, you deserve it because you're awesome. You're part of a brave new America, an America that wants wagons, not SUV's. Just so long as the wagon kind of reminds you of an SUV.
*image via Autoblog*
VAG (Volkswagen Auto Group) of America CEO Michael Horn confirmed to Automotive News that the jacked up Golf Sportwagen variant known as the Golf Alltrak will come to the US in 2016. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! has all the pertinent information you might want and some pictures as well.
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This is big news but I think the real story here is the Jalopnik/Oppositelock community. You guys, we have the power to make our dreams come true. We've bitched and moaned for years about the lack of an AWD/manual wagon (since Subaru killed the Legacy) and VW is finally bringing over the Golf SportWagen starting this January.
But that wasn't enough for us, no we wanted more because of course we do. We're Americans, we want options, we want more ground clearance, we want plastic boddy cladding and we want to pay a premium for those things damnit! So we bitched and moaned some more and behold, success!
Of course we don't yet know if we'll get a 3rd pedal option or if it'll be available with a diesel power plant but at least we can rest assured that it will come in brown and that's something to be happy about.
Now, about that Golf R SportWagen...
gawdzillla
> Andrew T. Maness
11/22/2014 at 14:20 |
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what an ugly car ...
Alex B
> Andrew T. Maness
11/22/2014 at 14:53 |
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But won't this kill off the normal wagon?
Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> Andrew T. Maness
11/22/2014 at 14:56 |
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Look, a VW Eagle.
TheHondaBro
> Andrew T. Maness
11/22/2014 at 15:43 |
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yay
Tom McParland
> Andrew T. Maness
11/22/2014 at 16:02 |
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I dunno if we should be proud of this one. Look what happened to the Legacy and A4 Avant after the crossover versions came out. And the MK7 Sportwagen is supposed to have an AWD option anyway.
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Andrew T. Maness
> Tom McParland
11/22/2014 at 21:06 |
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We shouldn't be proud of it, I don't think my sarcasm came across enough. This actually scares me because if sales of the new Sportwagen aren't good, well we all know what will happen.