The New Golf GTi Top Model Is Set To Be The Highlight Of This Year's GTi Meeting At Wörthersee

The countdown has started: the new Golf GTI top model is set to be the highlight of this year's GTI meeting at Wörthersee

•Strong performance: the Golf GTI TCR¹ delivers 213 kW / 290 PS and offers perfect traction thanks to the front axle locking differential

•The fastest Golf GTI: the Vmax limiter in the GTI TCR to be launched at the end of 2018 can be removed as desired to increase the maximum speed from 250 to 264 km/h

The largest GTI meeting in the world gets underway on Wednesday 9 May. The location: Reifnitz am Wörthersee. Last year, 7,300 cars and around 125,000 visitors turned the Austrian town into the Mecca of the GTI world. Figures of this magnitude are expected again this year. Volkswagen will also present a special highlight to the participants and visitors: the new Golf GTI TCR, which is nearly ready for production. As a tribute to fans, the 290 PS GTI will be unveiled in a world première at Wörthersee. The future top model in the Golf GTI series, which has sold more than 2.2 million units worldwide, will be launched at the end of the year.

The maximum speed is 250 km/h, but can be increased to 264 km/h as stated above by opting to remove the electronic Vmax limiter. This makes the new GTI TCR the fastest Golf and generally the fastest Volkswagen licensed for use on public roads. Thanks to its drive performance, the production car achieves similar ranges as the 275 kW / 350 PS Golf GTI TCR racing car.

With more than 2.2 million units sold, the Golf GTI²'⁵ has become one of the world's most successful compact sports cars. It all started life in 1976 as a 110 PS front-wheel drive car, which made high driving dynamics affordable. Originally, only 5,000 cars of the original GTI were to be built – 4,400 times as many have now been produced.

¹The vehicle is a prototype. The vehicle is not yet on sale and is consequently not subject to Directive 1999/94 EC. All technical details of the new Golf GTI TCR are predicted values as at May 2018.

²Golf GTI 2.0 TSI, 169 kW / fuel consumption in l/100 km (NEDC): combined 6.4; CO2 emissions in g/km: 148 (combined), efficiency class: D

³Golf GTI 2.0 TSI, 169 kW (DSG) / fuel consumption in l/100 km (NEDC): combined 6.4 - 6.3; CO2 emissions in g/km: 148 - 145 (combined), efficiency class: D.

⁴Golf GTI Performance 2.0 TSI, 180 kW / fuel consumption in l/100 km (NEDC): combined 6.6 - 6.5; CO2 emissions in g/km: 150 - 148 (combined), efficiency class: D.

⁵Golf GTI Performance 2.0 TSI, 180 kW (DSG) / fuel consumption in l/100 km (NEDC): combined 6.3; CO2 emissions in g/km: 144 (combined), efficiency class: C.

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