Volkswagen will axe one other Golf variant for 2024, with the bottom hatch – merely referred to as Golf – being killed.

The vary will as a substitute open with the Life, although the corporate has but to disclose pricing for 2024.

The Life hatch presently begins at $38,590 earlier than on-road prices, $2300 greater than the bottom hatch.

“The overwhelming majority of Golf prospects choose the Life, R-Line, GTI or – when accessible – R mannequin grades,” stated a spokesperson for Volkswagen Australia.

“Reflecting these buyer preferences, this now means every mannequin line within the Volkswagen passenger automobile vary will begin with the well-equipped Life mannequin grade or larger.

“There stays robust MY23 inventory in Volkswagen dealerships, and it will proceed by way of 2023. The Polo GTI, Golf Life, Golf R-Line and Golf GTI stay with particular drive-away pricing.”

Volkswagen not too long ago axed the Golf wagon, which was accessible in base, Life and R guises.

“It’s a really deliberate choice to depart house inside our dealerships, inside our narrative to prospects,” stated Volkswagen Australia managing director Michael Szaniecki on the axing of the Golf wagon.

“It is mindless to have Arteon, Passat, [and Golf Wagon] with ID.4, ID.3, ID.5.”

Decrease-volume Volkswagens just like the Passat are being discontinued because the model readies an onslaught of electrical automobiles (EVs): the ID.4 and ID.5 due in July 2024, and the ID. Buzz and Golf-sized ID.3 hatchback later in 2024.

The bottom Golf had already taken a short go away of absence, and although it will definitely returned it did so solely with an automated transmission, with the handbook possibility being axed.

Upon the Mk8 Golf’s native launch in 2021, this base handbook was the one Golf to slip in beneath $30,000 earlier than on-road prices, if solely by a number of hundred {dollars}.

In distinction, the previous Mk7.5 Golf was accessible from simply $25,790 earlier than on-road prices again in 2020.

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