Volkswagen has already unveiled its six-generation Golf, Golf GTI and Golf GTD, and today the German automaker took the wraps off yet another Golf-variant – the Estate wagon. VW will begin taking orders for the Golf Wagon on Friday, although deliveries aren’t scheduled to begin until September.
The Golf Wagon builds off the sixth-generation Golf five-door but adds a healthy dose of cargo volume. Cargo capacity is up to nearly 53 cubic feet, while still maintaining the Golf’s relatively small footprint. In addition to more cargo room, the Golf Wagon also offers ESP, six air bags, daytime running lights, a roof rack, power windows, power and heated side mirrors and climate control – all for a starting price of € 18,500 ($25,400).
The new Golf Wagon will be available in three flavors – base Trendline, up-level Comfortline and range-topping Highline. Of note, the Highline trim level will be replacing the former Sportline as the model’s top offering.
At launch, the Golf Wagon will be available with three engines. Customers wanting a gas engine will be offered a 120 horsepower TSI unit while diesel buyers will have two choices – a 105 horsepower unit and a 140 horsepower mill. Three more engines will eventually join the Golf Wagon range – two diesel and one gas – ranging in output from 80 horsepower to 160.
At the front end, the Golf Wagon shares 100 percent of its body parts with the three- and five-door Golfs. However, the wagon no longer features a standard chrome radiator grille, as was seen on the previous car. However, chrome accents are available starting on the mid-level Comfortline model.
The rear of the wagon sports new taillights and a painted lower bumper. Unlike the previous-generation of the Golf Wagon, TDI and TSI versions of the hatch now feature visible tailpipes.
The Golf Wagon’s interior is basically a carryover from the standard Golf, offering such niceties as Bluetooth, MP3 connectivity and VW’s ParkAssist and Rear Assist systems.
The Golf Wagon has historically been one of VW’s best-selling models – tallying 95,000 sales last year – and the sixth-generation should be no different. However, the Golf Wagon will be off limits to U.S. buyers as there are no current plans to bring it to the United States.
05/21, 10:31 AM
posted by:
JakeK66
I guess they don’t have the Jetta in Europe? At least not the Jetta wagon, or having both models would be ridiculous since it’s they are the same thing. I guess we will be expecting a Jetta that’s updated soon, or they just gonna pass us by on that model too because we don’t appreciate the refinements like Europeans do.
05/21, 10:34 AM
posted by:
DenverGuy217
It does look like they just grafted the new Golf nose on the old Jetta wagon body. No progress there.
05/21, 10:45 AM
posted by:
shaver
Again, just like Scirroccoco its not worth retooling another plant in Mex to offer this here at pricepoint necesary. If they send it from Deutcheland it will be too much $. Atleast we get the Roostan.
05/21, 11:00 AM
posted by:
CADDY-V
I think the CTS wagon is better. IMO, but im also a Cadillac fan.
05/21, 11:01 AM
posted by:
Icarus
I don’t think LeftLane’s editors have this correct. In Europe, the Golf Wagon is our Jetta Wagon. VWVortex has posted the 2010 specs/changes for the Jetta Wagon, and it seems we’ll be getting this new model, based on this description:
Actually, went back to vortex to cut and paste, but there’s a note in the old post indicating that VW didn’t want it released yet.
However, it did state that the Jetta Wagon would have a new hood, front end, etc.
05/21, 11:11 AM
posted by:
JakeK66
The pics aren’t coming up LLN!
05/21, 11:16 AM
posted by:
mobydee71
if this is “off limits 2 USA” then what is the diff. between this & our Jetta Wagen??
05/21, 11:20 AM
posted by:
jandrews90
@ CADDY-V – yeah i’m not usually a fan of domestics but the CTS wagon does look really good
And i’m disappointed with VW for just slapping the golf front end on this, is that what their going to do to NA’s Jetta?
05/21, 11:30 AM
posted by:
Borat
Jetta wagon and this are world apart at least visually. This one is taller. I saw VW wagons of past generation in Europe and they taller and even come with AWD option. Basically, they are people and cargo movers and I saw them only with diesel engines. I am sure they come out with gasoline engines as well, but I never observed one on the road. They are tallish and decent looking. Interior to die for. Exterior not to shabby either.
05/21, 12:04 PM
posted by:
spg900
Trendline, comfortline, highline, linear, arc etc. Don’t car companies realize that these names for trim levels are dorky!
05/21, 12:06 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
Too bad. Unfortunately wagons are second rate citizens over here. Here’s hoping the likes of the CTS can help change that. They are still going to build it, right?
05/21, 1:18 PM
posted by:
2TellUTheTruth
Interesting. I know vw makes money, or profit, off their company(ies), but I dont see where they make the sales over here in the U.S. anymore. The engineering is great, but all their products should be poppin like the ‘cc’ or the ‘eos’; then the numbers might jump off a lil more! Their product line looks good, but not all dat hot [all thru-out at least; I should say]. I know they got the designs because of some of their products (n concepts), but they need their whole line-up to be on fire! N when I say fire, I mean at least as hot as the ‘cc’ or even ‘eos’!
05/21, 2:37 PM
posted by:
Borat
2TellUTheTruth, I have no idea what you are saying, but VW can’t sell in US because their cars that are manufactured in Mexico (Rabbit/Jetta/Bug) are extremely unreliable. They do sell well in Europe (because of other brands as well) in So. America and China.
05/21, 4:15 PM
posted by:
A4
JakeK, the Jetta Sportwagen IS the Golf wagon in European markets. The same applies for the MKIV generation of the Jetta Wagon, and when they send a MKVI Jetta to the US market we will probably [continue to] see a similar vehicle to this one.
05/21, 8:27 PM
posted by:
Get Real
TAKING ORDERS ????????
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LLN made a funny.
05/22, 3:45 AM
posted by:
maxcar
the jetta or bora is considered a geriatric vehicle in germany. in fact, the jetta was renamed the bora, in part, to overcome the stigma that the jetta nameplate came with. jetta/bora, call it what you like, didn’t change the german view of the sedan version of the golf. (if you remember, the first jetta was a frankensteined golf with a trunk (read rabbit and fox for americans)) the golf, however, sells a lot better. consequently, what we know as the jetta wagon, or sportwagen in it’s latest iteration, has always been marketed as a golf wagon in europe, with minor cosmetic changes (nose cone and tail lights), of course.