Volkswagen Golf 8.5 GTI Revealed With More Power

The facelifted 2025 Volkswagen Golf GTI has been unveiled, with subtle exterior styling changes and an upgraded interior designed to code lawsuit complaints of the outgoing model.

The GTI’s updated 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder EA888 motor volition present marque 261 hp (195 kW) which is an summation of 20 hp (15 kw). The hatch continues to powerfulness its beforehand wheels, but with the manual gearbox enactment present dead, the lone transmission disposable is VW’s seven-speed DSG automatic.

Volkswagen has not revealed immoderate show claims for the caller Golf, though insiders astatine its Wolfsburg office successful Germany accidental the reworked GTI model’s 0-100km/h clip has been lowered from the 6.2 seconds of its predecessor.

Subtle exterior updates see a wide little grille opening with upward-slanted accents and reshaped headlights. There are besides determination are caller sills underneath the doors, a much salient spoiler atop the tailgate, a redesigned rear bumper and new-look 3D-effect LED process lights.

There volition besides beryllium an enactment of an illuminated Volkswagen badge astatine the beforehand but it is unclear if it volition beryllium offered successful South Africa.

The bigger changes travel wrong wherever determination is simply a larger touchscreen with improved processing power, caller software, and illumination for the touch-sensitive measurement and aerial somesthesia sliders nether the screen.

Meanwhile, the touch-sensitive buttons connected the steering instrumentality person been sacked successful favour of accepted switches – each successful effect to antagonistic feedback connected the outgoing exemplary from customers.

At this stage, we tin guesstimate that the refreshed VW Golf 8 GTI volition marque its mode to section (South African) shores astir Q1 oregon Q2 successful 2025.

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