VW cuts launch base price $2,000 for 2015 Golf (for a limited time)
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Graham Line
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Buying according to a feature list isn't the greatest idea anyway. Would you rather have a '60s Alfa with a solid axle, or a Triumph Spitfire with IRS? Doesn't hurt to wait for the road tests, if you can find someone writing them who isn't awed by lists of features and can actually evaluate a car.
IndigoBlueWagon
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Oberkanone
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Twist Beam GTD
Use the $$$ savings to pay to import the GTD engine (are you listening Michael Horn).
Twist beam packaging will alllow use of already engineered for North America urea tank and still keep the spare tire.
Twist beam could have some merits.
Use the twist beam on GTD.
Use the $$$ savings to pay to import the GTD engine (are you listening Michael Horn).
Twist beam packaging will alllow use of already engineered for North America urea tank and still keep the spare tire.
Twist beam could have some merits.
TDIMeister
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... and then sell 600 cars for the whole year and get it canned for the next MY with the bean-counters calling it a failure...
bhtooefr
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Honestly, I think VAG's best bet for bringing a GTD engine to the US would be in an S3 TDI or something of that nature (although the S3 typically gets the same engine as the Golf R (and the A3 3.2 was a regular model), so maybe it'd be an A3 TDI S-line or something. The higher price point helps, and the US-spec A3 (except in plug-in hybrid form) being a sedan also helps (more room to put the urea tank out of the way of the suspension).
tdi90hp
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Car has been killed. All kinds of press reports fro NY auto show and others.....
Vaporware. No more dreaming.....
SilverGhost
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The Jetta S and Jetta base are two different models. The Jetta base is an order only model. They are rare because most people don't want to wait for that cheap of a model. Most people will do one of several things - get the Jetta S, shop a different brand, not buy a car.
The price for the Golf still hasn't come down as much as I expected/would like. And no 2 door TDI at this point. While I like all the electronic goodies, it is hard to justify the entry price (for what I want) considering what I do with the car.
Jason
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bhtooefr
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It's dead until I can go to a dealer and buy it.
tdi90hp
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VW needs to focus on selling 31k Golf high line TDIs in Canada before worrying about GTDs.....so if a high line is 31k the a GTD is 35?? Yep big market for a 35k golf when I can go to my Benz dealer and buy a pretty cool Benz for 35k.....so I have to Settle for a 23k babes TDI with NO cruise......ridiculous on a highway minded car.....for 23k+ 2 k f and pdi + 13 percent tax.....like nearly. 30 k out the door for a car with no cruise.....c'mon guys where does the stupidity end?
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At the edge of the showroom floor. Wait a few years and buy a used / off-lease Comfortline for less than the Trendline retails new.
NoSmoke
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Even the dealer I spoke to about it is wondering Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. They did tell me however that it is available as a (dealer installed?) add-on for $250.
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TornadoRed
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Michael Horn says maybe, but not until 2017.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthew...olf-gtd-could-be-coming-to-the-u-s-after-all/
VWoA: always at least five years late, sometimes ten. And Michael Horn, in his job for six months, is already six months behind the curve.
kjclow
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It's the German way. Over plan and under deliver.
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IndigoBlueWagon
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13.2 gallon fuel tank? That's going in the wrong direction!
compu_85
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Had to make room for the adblue!
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kjclow
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It doesn't really add up that both the smaller fuel tank and a torsion beam rear suspension are due to the adblue.
truman
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You gotta love diesel torque an awful lot to choose the TDI vs TSI. On the face of it, the 1.8T seems to be the logical choice. I wish it wasn't so.
IndigoBlueWagon
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Yes it does. Filler piping is in the way of the IRS, fuel tank had to be smaller to make room for the Adblue tank. I guess VW, unlike Chevrolet, didn't want to just delete the spare tire.
truman
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Smaller fuel tank and beam axle appear to be reasonable compromises.
IndigoBlueWagon
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Perhaps, but it would have been nice if the expected FE improvement from using urea had materialized. Looks like a 2 MPG bump is all we get.
RIP TDI
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If the photos in the C&D article are from an actual NA model, there are some significant cosmetic differences from previous articles I've seen:
Brushed aluminum or stainless trim around the cluster & center stack vs. plain black.
Non-black interior color vs. black-only as has been rumored.
Hexagonal headlight reflectors vs. rectangular.
2-bar grill vs. ?-bar grill.
Brushed aluminum or stainless trim around the cluster & center stack vs. plain black.
Non-black interior color vs. black-only as has been rumored.
Hexagonal headlight reflectors vs. rectangular.
2-bar grill vs. ?-bar grill.
kjclow
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Oh, hadn't thought about the filler pipe.
truman
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Sight unseen, I would lean toward a 1.8TSI 5m, vs 2.0TDI 6M. I am not seeing the value in a TDI at the moment.
deserthi
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I can't buy the 1.8 because when I got my 2010 tdi I got rid of my dodge pickup. I bought a real nice 4x8 trailer and put a hitch on the tdi and it pulls it really nicely, but I just don't think that the 1.8 would pull that trailer that well. I really wish Subaru would bring their diesel here to the states...I would snap one up. As it is, there aren't a lot of choices for me in the small car field that I can buy for my purpose.