September 10, 2024

Byrdr Automotive

Car and Comfort

Hot Volkswagen Golf GTD diesel teased for Geneva Motor Show

An additional performance Golfing is waiting in the wings: it’s the all-new GTD. VW has launched a teaser graphic in advance of the car’s official debut at subsequent month’s Geneva Motor Present. 

The graphic displays the GTD will function LED spotlights housed inside the front bumper as nicely as a gentle strip that connects the two headlamps. It is a structure theme that options on the currently-uncovered GTE plug-in hybrid, as nicely as future GTI, to mark out performance variants in the Mk8 Golfing range. 

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VW is retaining specific complex details on the GTD underneath wraps right up until the car’s official debut at Geneva, but the organization has claimed that it will make use of the “most potent and cleanest’ turbodiesel engine at any time made use of in a Golfing. The organization goes on to say that a new twin SCR (selective catalytic reduction) with double-AdBlue injection will also function to support minimize NOx emissions around the outgoing model. 

The outgoing GTD is powered by a 182bhp 2.-litre 4-cylinder diesel engine. Be expecting electric power from the newcomer to rise nearer to the 200bhp mark. Like just before, the GTD will be front-push only and supplied with the possibility of a six-speed handbook transmission or a six-speed DSG automated gearbox.

Along with the GTD at Geneva, VW will also pull the wraps off the new Golfing GTI. Both of those cars will go on sale in the center of the 12 months. 

Read through far more about the Mk8 VW Golfing listed here…