The Golf R and the Golf GTI will still exist after this year, but you can say goodbye to the base Golf, which will leave the US market forever. Or at least until gas prices rise and Americans want good, small, fuel-efficient cars again.
We see it coming in 2019, when VW the Alltrack and SportWagen killed here, en later the e-Golf too. For all that we have had a hint that the base Golf would also be dead at some point.
That day has come.
Herndon, VA – Volkswagen of America announced today that the much acclaimed Volkswagen Golf was discontinued for the US market last week. Volkswagen expects the model year 2021 golf models built at the Puebla factory in Mexico to sustain sales of the affordable hatchback, designed by Europe, until the end of the year. The Golf family name continues in the 2022 model year with the launch of the brand new Mk 8 Golf GTI and Golf R, which arrives in the autumn.
The Golf has been sold here since 1974; at that time it was called the Rabbit here starting at $ 2,995; the manual in 2021 starts at $ 23,195. VW introduced an eighth generation Golf in 2019, but we still get the seventh generation Golf here in the US, which was also where things would end up.
The Golf competes with cars like the Honda Civic and Mazda 3, and sales here last year were actually pretty good, all things considered, with VW sell 6,063, or 7.4 percent more than in 2019. However, these are crumbs for a carmaker as big as Volkswagen, and I’m sure the internal justification here is something: In any case, you do not earn that much money, or at least at least not as much as when we sell a Tiguan.
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It could also be a nod to the ID.4 that will come to the United States, even if it is honestly Volkswagen’s strategy in the US has been confusing me for a while now. This is because apparently there is not one, although the pandemic has also thrown a wrench into things, as for everyone else. Get your base Golf while stocks last.