There’s a sure model of hardcore driving fanatic for whom a well-tuned Volkswagen Golf GTI is the proper automobile. By day, it’s an easy-to-live-with commuter with snug seats and hatchback cargo house. By evening, it has the agility of a sports activities automobile, and its 241 horsepower is a formidable energy determine in such a small automobile.

Our professional take a look at driver says, “If there’s such a factor as the proper automobile, the Volkswagen Golf GTI may qualify. It has the ability and poise to entertain on every kind of roads. But it additionally has the refinement and practicality to make it a wonderful on a regular basis driver.”

However fans have a tendency so as to add a caveat: Get it with the stick.

Fairly quickly, they gained’t be capable to.

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Volkswagen in the present day introduced a particular version of the 2024 Golf GTI meant to say goodbye to the third pedal. The Golf GTI 380, VW says, “is a particular tools set, commonplace on each 2024 manual-transmission GTI, celebrating the ultimate yr of guide manufacturing in [the] Golf GTI.”

The 2024 Volkswagen Golf GTI 380 goes on sale in early fall 2023, with a beginning MSRP of $32,485 for the GTI 380 S, $37,285 for the GTI 380 SE, and $40,625 for the GTI 380 Autobahn. Volkswagen additionally prices a compulsory $1,095 supply price on the Golf.

Unique Shade Combos

Volkswagen didn’t identify the 380 due to a horsepower increase. The identify is the inner code VW makes use of to establish the present eighth-generation Golf.

The 380 fashions are available a selection of seven colours, together with a manual-exclusive shade referred to as Graphite Grey Metallic. They trip on 19-inch gloss black multi-spoke aluminum alloy wheels with a gloss black roof and mirror caps.

They get summer time efficiency tires and a normal adaptive damping suspension system.

Inside, there’s a golf-ball-inspired shift knob (despite the fact that the automobile’s identify comes from the German time period for the Gulf Stream, not the game) and honeycomb accents. “S and SE trims characteristic basic Scalepaper Plaid material seats; Vienna leather-based seating surfaces come commonplace for the Autobahn trim and are non-obligatory on the SE trim,” VW says.

As soon as these are gone, so is the third pedal, Volkswagen says. “This mannequin is the final Golf GTI to be supplied with a 6-speed guide, whereas the 7-speed dual-clutch DSG transmission will carry ahead on future GTI fashions and on the Golf R.”