January 23, 2025

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Hot Volkswagen Golf GTD diesel teased for Geneva Motor Show

One more functionality Golfing is waiting around in the wings: it is the all-new GTD. VW has produced a teaser graphic ahead of the car’s official debut at up coming month’s Geneva Motor Present. 

The graphic demonstrates the GTD will characteristic LED spotlights housed inside the front bumper as very well as a gentle strip that connects the two headlamps. It is a style and design topic that options on the already-disclosed GTE plug-in hybrid, as very well as approaching GTI, to mark out functionality variants in the Mk8 Golfing selection. 

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VW is holding in depth specialized facts on the GTD underneath wraps until the car’s official debut at Geneva, but the firm has mentioned that it will make use of the “most effective and cleanest’ turbodiesel engine ever utilized in a Golfing. The firm goes on to say that a new twin SCR (selective catalytic reduction) with double-AdBlue injection will also characteristic to support lessen NOx emissions above the outgoing design. 

The outgoing GTD is powered by a 182bhp two.-litre 4-cylinder diesel engine. Anticipate power from the newcomer to increase closer to the 200bhp mark. Like ahead of, the GTD will be front-travel only and offered with the selection of a six-pace handbook transmission or a six-pace DSG computerized gearbox.

Alongside the GTD at Geneva, VW will also pull the wraps off the new Golfing GTI. Both cars will go on sale in the middle of the calendar year. 

Study additional about the Mk8 VW Golfing here…