2025 VW Golf Readies fiftieth Birthday Bash With Facelift Debut In January

The Golf celebrates 50 years in 2024, and VW plans to have fun its previous and its future

Volkswagen is gearing up for a facelift of the eighth-generation Golf, with the compact mannequin set to be revealed on the finish of January. The refresh might be an vital one for the model and the automobile, which is celebrating its fiftieth 12 months anniversary in 2024.

The upcoming facelifted Mk8 Golf will convey a number of enhancements, together with “visually refined options, new help methods and powertrains, and in addition next-generation infotainment methods and software program.” Volkswagen got here underneath hearth for the compact automobile’s totally touch-based infotainment setup, which was susceptible to software program points early on.

Final week, VW confirmed off the primary teaser picture of the up to date Golf, which had a revised LED lighting signature that’s impressed by the one on its ID-branded electrical autos. A revised entrance and rear fascia are additionally anticipated.

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Along with introducing an up to date model of the automobile, VW says it’ll have fun the Golf’s fiftieth anniversary by taking traditional examples to occasions all over the world. A lineup of its seven historic generations is deliberate for reveals in Paris and Bremen.

Among the many autos would be the occasionally seen EA 276 idea automobile, which was developed in 1969, in Wolfsburg. This idea automobile represents an early precursor to the first-generation Golf and differs considerably from the ultimate manufacturing mannequin, which was in the end designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro.

Handing the reins over to the Italian designer was, apparently, a good suggestion, as it might take simply two years for the first-generation Golf to achieve 1 million gross sales worldwide. As we speak, greater than 37 million examples of the hatchback have been delivered to clients across the globe.

“The key of success was and nonetheless is the sum of all its traits,” writes VW. “It is because the Golf has at all times been an ideal companion for on a regular basis life, embodying versatility, performance, reliability and high quality.”

Following the disclosing of the most recent instance of the Golf in late January, VW expects pre-sales of the mannequin to begin within the spring of 2024.