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New VW ID. GTI Concept takes performance brand into the electric age<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u201cWe will put the Golf probably directly on SSP [Scalable Systems\u00a0Platform]. We have a renewed Golf next year and then that'll carry us nicely into a time where we can make the decision whether we bring it straight away or a little bit later. But there will be a Golf and it will be a true Golf in terms of package, drivability.\u201d<\/p>\n
That means that following a revised Golf Mk 8.5 in 2024, the next all-new Golf will be on the new Scalable Systems Platform due \u201cin 2028, probably,\u201d according to Schafer.<\/p>\n
While a GTI version of the new all-electric Golf would seem to be a given after Schafer\u2019s comments about the importance of the GTI name, Auto Express asked Schafer if there was likely to be an R version of the 2028 Golf.<\/p>\n
\u201cGTI is two-wheel drive. The R technically is the four-wheel drive,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019ll probably only be with the SSP platform because with R you need to really put another level on. To do that with MEB+ [the upcoming iteration of VW\u2019s current all-electric platform] would be a stretch, and it's got to be four-wheel drive in that space.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we decided we keep that on. We have the R line anyway, but we're going to have all the ICE models that will still be available as an R in a Golf, but then we'll switch to SSP.\u201d<\/p>\n
That would also mean the end of the recently launched sporty, four-wheel drive GTX models, with Schafer admitting, \u201cGTX was just an interim for the battery electric one, but we\u2019re probably going to merge that in the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Volkswagen\u2019s ID name could also come under threat when the brand\u2019s ICE and BEV line-ups merge by 2033, although the recently-facelifted ID.3 looks set to be replaced by the new Golf EV in 2028. \u201cID.3 will run out by then so there will be a minimal overlap, if at all, and then that's fine,\u201d said Schafer.<\/p>\n
But could the ID badge disappear completely? \u201cIt was a name that was necessary at the time to differentiate from the ICE vehicles,\u201d said Schafer. \u201cWe probably don't need that going into the future if eventually by 2033 we are done. What's the point of naming everything double?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that's not 100% clear whether we drop it completely or go back to some individual names because of our regional span and the models and everything \u2013 it's brain science, I promise you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the challenges in deciding what to do with the ID name, Schafer did hint that the ID.3 name could live on with a different model. \u201cIf there's another ID.3, a different body shape then, going into SSP, that's not decided.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Apparently, the debate over the future of the Golf name extended to the ID. GTI Concept, revealed at the Munich Motor Show, as Schafer revealed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Golf had lots of debates,\u201d he said. \u201cWhether this is the new Golf \u2013 the GTI \u2013 from a shape point of view\u2026 The interior is as big as a Golf, but the exterior is not really as big as a Golf. And from a package and everything, it's not 100% Golf. And I said, "Okay, then let's not call it Golf, because it's not a Golf."\u201d<\/p>\n
The new GTI concept, based on the forthcoming small ID.2 electric car, due on sale in 2025 with a proposed price point of \u20ac25,000, was never likely to be called Polo either, as Schafer explained: \u201cIt's a bit bigger than Polo. I think you would limit your earnings prospects if you call it a Polo, because the car is more than a Polo. We taught our customers Polo is a car between \u20ac15,000 and \u20ac25,000. This car starts at \u20ac25,000. So to call it Polo, I think, is not right.\u201d<\/p>\n
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