VW Golf VI Will Bring Cabrio Version Back To The Market

VW Golf Cabrio

Launch by the end of 2008

By Gustavo Henrique Ruffo
May 26, 2008 2:00 AM
Filed Under: German, Rumours, Volkswagen


It is needless to say the next generation of Volkswagen Golf, the sixth one, will drive lots of attention when it is officially unveiled, which is expected to happen by the end of 2008, possibly at the Paris Motor Show or, if later, at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show. But the Golf VI, as it is also called, will also bring back one version that many European and North American customers must have missed, the cabrio.

Most hard top convertibles are, as the acronym CC states, coupes, and this is the reason Golf will get a soft retractable top, which should benefit from new technologies and present less noise and leaking problems, as well as easier ways to put the top on and off.

Designed by Walter de Silva, the Golf VI will have three and five door version, as well as the GTI, which may get a glass roof, and a 2.0 TFSI engine pumping out more than 260 bhp. A new TFSI engine, 1.6-litre, is also said to be on the plans, generating about 200 bhp. The engine for the base model will probably be the 1.4 TFSI, but Volkswagen may choose to have an even cheaper version, with no turbo, although its not very likely to happen, considering Lancia’s decision of offering only turbo engines for the Delta and the engine downsizing that is strongly taking place in the Old World.

Diesel engines are also expected to equip the hatchback, both in BlueMotion versions and, in the future, in a electric-hybrid model, expected to emerge in some years from now due to technical difficulties the development of these ultra low consumption vehicles are presenting.

Source: via car magazine

Comments

Pentium
May 26, 2008 3:29 AM
Great news...I like them both...Golf and Golf Cabrio.

peterjames7
May 26, 2008 4:33 AM
audi a3 cabrio styling???

Hiromichi
May 26, 2008 4:44 AM
It seems Golf VI will take the benchmark position in its class again that all other models have never taken since Golf I appeared. The biggest challenges that Golf must take are production cost cut keeping quality level and launch of plug-in hybrid/EV. The latter will be realized rather quick as Sanyo, VW's partner in lithium polymer battery development, looks running smoother than expected. The former task? I have no clue.

benzboy
May 26, 2008 5:15 AM
I look at this car and have to Laugh, not in a mean way,but people actually called the Mercedes SLK retractable, a CHICK car, but this is beyond femmine LOL

LMS
May 26, 2008 8:14 AM
So what do they need the EOS for? For less metrosexual males?

BabyMilo
May 26, 2008 1:31 PM
yeahh this will be pretty femmmine and the eos is aswell... if u think about it there arent really that many convertiables 4 males out there...

kimbo
May 26, 2008 2:42 PM
anyone remember that commercial? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIOW9fLT9eY

joelynn
May 26, 2008 5:25 PM
Why do people miss the Golf Cabrio when they have the Eos? It's far more handsome than any Golf cabrio ever was.

tootall
May 26, 2008 5:33 PM
Besides the EOS. What will become of the Bettle? When VW resurected this model it's intent were to take the place of the Golf Cabrio. So now that the Golf Cabrio is making a come back, now what?

kevoluetion
May 26, 2008 6:50 PM
I thought the EOS was the replacement for cabrio

mps
May 27, 2008 10:24 AM
Can't be more feminine than Peugeots CCs.

tbrodie
June 19, 2008 7:58 PM
While the Cabrio has had a higher proportion of female buyers, this whole thing about convertible gender is a recent phenomena. Unless it is an exotic, Porsche, Corvette, or 3 series, it is gender ambivalent. Sports cars are not immune, I recently saw the Miata used as the punchline on a sitcom as being a "gay" car making me wonder whether the Nissan Z or Solstice/Sky will be immune. The Austin Healys, Triumphs, and MGs would not have been regarded this way decades ago. Trucks are the "manly" segment.

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