The Golf R and Golf GTI will continue to exist after this year, but you can say goodbye to the base Golf, which is definitely leaving the American market. Or at least until gas prices skyrocket and Americans want to use good, small, fuel-efficient cars again.
We saw it coming in 2019, when VW killed Alltrack and SportWagen here, i later, e-Golf as well. Before all that, us he had a clue that the base Golf would also be dead at some point.
That day has been fulfilled.
Herndon, VA – Volkswagen of America announced today that the acclaimed Volkswagen Golf ended production for the U.S. market last week. Volkswagen expects the 2021 models of the Golf model built at the plant in Puebla, Mexico, to keep sales of affordable hatchback of European design until the end of the year. The Golf family name will continue in 2022 with the introduction of the new Mk 8 Golf GTI and Golf R, which will arrive this fall.
The Golf has been sold here since 1974; then here was called the Rabbit i started at $ 2,995; the 2021 manual version starts at $ 23,195. VW introduced an eighth-generation Golf in 2019, but we still have the seventh-generation Golf here in the United States, which is also when things will end.
The Golf competes with cars like the Honda Civic and the Mazda 3, and sales here last year were pretty good, considering, with VW coming 6,063, or 7.4 percent more than in 2019. That’s a spring for a carmaker as big as Volkswagen, but I’m sure the internal justification here is something along the lines of: Sure, sales are up a little, but not Anyway, I won’t make as much money, or at least not as much as we do when we sell a Tiguan.
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It could also be a nod to ID.4 coming to the United States, although, to be honest, Volkswagen’s strategy in the United States it has been confusing me for a while. This is because there seems to be none, although the pandemic also threw a key, as it did for everyone. Get your base golf until stocks run out.