Mk 8 Golf

[Flipper Dog]

As for charging, when petrol was first introduced there was no petrol stations and if you went for a drive a bloke stood on the side of the road selling petrol out of cans so things were not what we see today.

Drive around some not so rich countries now and you still see this. Not out of cans but plastic bottles.

[Idle]

Drive around some not so rich countries now and you still see this. Not out of cans but plastic bottles.

In the early days of motoring here, you bought benzine from a shop - often from a chemist.

I can remember my granddad still referring to petrol as "benzine" in the 1920's.

Also, in 1954 I took delivery of a Triumph TR2 and found I had to add benzol to the only petrol available (we were still on wartime "pool" - they never said what pool they got it out of, but it wasn't a good one) to keep the thing from rattling its head off.

Also its original plugs failed in a couple of days, as did the reluctantly supplied warranty replacements - the cure there was a set of Lodge platinum points (at my own expense, of course.)

Today's drivers don't realise how good they've got it under current warranty conditions.

[kennyc]

Think this is real?

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If it is, I don't like the exterior but live the interior.

[Dutch77]

Just a collection of existing mock-ups.. nothing to see here.

Or worry about Kenny.

[Dutch77]

Fortunately this horrible render is not the next Mk 8.

[Flipper Dog]

Why did they replace the i30 badge?

[Arnold]

The Golf8 GTI will have an 1800cc normally aspirated turbo engine producing 188kw and 450nNm of torque. The tailgate will automatically remain closed if firmly shut and there will be no need to open it to access the spare tyre as all four tyres will run flat if under inflated. The 19" Arcturus-style alloy wheels are likely to cause PTSD in former Volvo V40 owners. This is intentional. The space-eating false floor made unpopular in the Golf7 and mercilessly carried over into the Golf7.5 will only be available in a special 'Escobar' edition of the GTI that is pending the conclusion of a licensing deal with a Medellin cartel. The 'Escobar' is expected to be released around the same time as Volkswagen's negotiating team. Apart from the exasperating boot and aspirating engine, digital technology will display mostly analogue instruments on an LED dashboard so brightly lit that the sunglasses carrier will come equipped with a pair of welders goggles. Responding to customer feedback, the passenger door is expected to unlock when unlocked and the driver's window when being raised will not reverse direction when the ignition key is removed. Usually. How competitive will be the 8th generation GTI on the track will not be known until before the conclusion of testing at the Nordschleife but which is in abeyance of a day when Hyundai engineers, not to mention local punks, are not tooling around the ring obscenely quickly in i30Ns for more "testing" and leaving VWs head of design, Walter da Silva, variously sleepless and contemplating a move to Seoul. Finally, the ashtray will be deleted as a concession to climate change and the ongoing effects on bonuses of the emissions testing scandal. More to come. Possibly. Including some startling predictions about the GolfX.

[Dutch77]

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Anyway - this is actually the first official VW teaser of the Mk8:



No surprise it will be another evolutionary model off the Mk7/7.5 in profile, that front end looks like it will borrow more from Polo than the SUV range; the rear looks like a worrying take of a Tig light cluster (it's worst design feature).

Typical rear renderings are showing up per C&D.

[Arnold]

I do apologise, Dutch; I did not post that photo from June as I presumed everybody would have seen it by now but it would seem to support your theory that the Golf8 will evolve from the 7. I was hoping the Golf8 would evolve from the Mark V but you can't have everything and your theory seems pretty indisputable, depending on your sense of humour of course.

[Dutch77]

The VW teaser is a couple of weeks old so posting it in June would have been a real coup.

As for the render, it is a lot older than June but I just picked one at random to discuss a point.

As for humour, please add some and we can have a chuckle together. Or are you still working out how to win a car 2/3 of the time?

[zardoz]

This looks interesting:
All-New 2020 VW Golf Mk8 Filmed In South Africa? (Update – New Video)

[Dutch77]

I had seen that floating around but assume it's a fake - although it might not be far off how the product may look judging by what is known/teased.

[Ralfi]

This looks interesting:
All-New 2020 VW Golf Mk8 Filmed In South Africa? (Update – New Video)

Sounds like the same couple spotted both cars!

Sus.

[Ozsko]

Aurocars crack at the Mk 9 golf New 2019 Volkswagen Golf: Official image released of Mk8 hatchback | Autocar

The images are old, the story.....believe what you will though hybrid is a certainty.

[Arnold]

The VW teaser is a couple of weeks old so posting it in June would have been a real coup.

As for the render, it is a lot older than June but I just picked one at random to discuss a point.

As for humour, please add some and we can have a chuckle together. Or are you still working out how to win a car 2/3 of the time?

The teaser has proved to be quite close to the final, the pre-production cars adopting the line of the rear quarter window.

Not sure if you ever got that in Monty Hall you win by switching every time.

Whatever your views on that matter, it appears that a Golf8 your sense of humour.