"KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time" (kngt)
05/03/2019 at 12:35 • Filed to: vw golf, volkswagen golf, golf, mk8 golf, mkviii golf
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"KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time" (kngt)
05/03/2019 at 12:35 • Filed to: vw golf, volkswagen golf, golf, mk8 golf, mkviii golf | 0
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“In 2018, the GTI and Golf R combined for 48 percent of the Golf family’s sales, with the GTI out-selling the standard Golf nearly three-to-one. Though none of the Golf’s variants sell in massive numbers, VW only sold 6,642 base Golfs in 2018 – less than two percent of overall car sales for the brand.”
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
66P1800inpieces
> KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
05/03/2019 at 12:40 |
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Does anyone know if the MK7 and 8 share the same suspension parts/springs. I was thinking of a Mk7 to replace my Mk4 but I rode in a coworkers Jetta GLI and it felt really stiff. I was hoping the base was more compliant as a DD.
The Mk8 nose looks junky. What, they could only get half sized headlights?
bob and john
> KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
05/03/2019 at 12:43 |
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a Volkswagen employee told us that the standard version of the next-gen Golf, as well as the
SportWagen
, won’t be available in the U.S. Only the performance variants of the new Mark VIII – the
GTI
and
Golf R
– will be available stateside. When we reached out for an official statement, Volkswagen declined to comment further.””
yea, I wouldnt count on it just yet.
The Ghost of Oppo
> KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
05/03/2019 at 12:44 |
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How VWoA makes product decisions
I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
> KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
05/03/2019 at 12:44 |
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Wait, really? Huh. I guess that shouldn’t surprise me, but given that the base model Golf has a 3k premium over the base Jetta, there’s not much reason to buy a base Golf over than.
A faster Sportwagen would be cool, though.
HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute
> KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
05/03/2019 at 12:45 |
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Ew it's so ugly
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The Ghost of Oppo
> bob and john
05/03/2019 at 12:46 |
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I can confirm first hand that VW literally lies about this kind of stuff.
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KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
> bob and john
05/03/2019 at 12:56 |
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We’ll know for sure in a few months.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
05/03/2019 at 13:20 |
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It's hideous
Tristan
> The Ghost of Oppo
05/03/2019 at 13:31 |
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VW?! LIE?! Noooooooo!!!!!
412GTI
> 66P1800inpieces
05/03/2019 at 14:04 |
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They might since this seems like more of a thorough update to the MQB platform, but no one could be sure until the MK8 is offically announced.
You probably rode in a mk6 GLI, which is an older platform. I think my GTI rides decently. It’s obviously stiffer than a regular Golf, but is very compliment and not busy over bumps/road imperfections.
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66P1800inpieces
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
05/03/2019 at 15:18 |
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Front half of the new Golf accidentally fell into the Beetle press.
bobbe17
> KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
05/03/2019 at 19:01 |
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Posted this on J alopnik, but figured it’d be good discusson here-
I’m assuming if they removed the normal Golf, they wouldn’t run production out of Mexico. The Golf Rs are already out of Germany, so they’d probably import the GTIs from there as well. Probably a cost/benefit analysis of tooling up a North America plant with the new model or not.