The Next VW Golf Won't Have Estate Or 3dr Options
Volkswagen is to end production of two of the Golf’s body styles, according to reports, as buyers shun the long-standing hatchback in favour of SUVs.
Both the estate and the three-door body styles are expected to be axed at the end of the current generation’s life cycle, says Autocar, with poor sales the most likely reason behind the two-pronged move.
The MkVII Golf estate is a surprisingly spacious thing, with over 600 litres of luggage room in a compact platform that’s still easy to manoeuvre up a country lane. The three-door, meanwhile, is just cooler than the five-door, but today’s buyers are looking for a different kind of style.
SUV sales are said to be cannibalising the Golf range, with the chunky Tiguan and ankle-biting T-Roc now eating into the traditional hatchback’s numbers. The extra production expense of two superfluous body styles is now a cost worth saving.
The Seat Leon and Audi A3 have both already ended their three-door versions, while the other VAG mid-size platform-sharer in the family, the Skoda Octavia, never had a three-door option in the first place. The practical, spacious Skoda still sells well as a wagon.
This decision also means an end is nigh for the really excellent Golf Alltrack, which was built in estate guise only, after the fashion of Audi’s A6 and A4 Allroad. Likewise, the GTD estate, one of the finest all-rounders on sale today, will soon be no more.
Sourfce: Autocar
Comments
No 3 door option is suicide for VW
Killing of the wagon will also be killing the golf r, as most of them are sold as wagons
Killing of the 3 door would just be finally laying the remains of the Scirocco to rest
No Estate? Noooooooo! I love Golf R Wagon! So sad. :(
SUV’s are killing wagons again. That sucks.
Most people here talk about cars they wouldn’t even buy anyway in real life. If it dies, it dies, that’s because there’s no demand. It’s not the first bodystyle to disappear either: hardtops don’t exist anymore, three-door wagons don’t exist anymore, three-door SUVs don’t exist anymore, full-size coupes don’t really exist anymore, etc..
If I’d have kids (more than one or two, let’s say), a wagon isn’t really going to bring anything more to me than a hatchback or even a medium-size sedan. Rear seats are still going to be a row rather than individual, and it’s still going to be roughly the same about the interior. They’re only really shining when you’re doing something like a camping trip or things like that.
Preach
Meanwhile the estate seems to be doing good bussiness here as company cars tho, we have one ourselves and i see them a decent amount
What about the manual transmission?
#StopTheSUVs #StopBuyingSUVs
I don’t think the 3dr was very popular which is a real shame. I can’t wait till the SUV craze is over.
Vote to kick ‘SUV’ was initiated
It’s either SUV or crossovers now…I don’t know about you but I’d prefer an SUV like a Vogue or a Sport over an insect-y C4 Cactus or a how-the-hell-did-the-design-team-approve-that Nissan Juke. I think it’s these crossovers killing these 3dr and estate variants sadly…
I somehow think this “craze” isnt gonna be over anytime soon.. it has been going on for at least a couple of decades..
It’s not a craze, it’s like calling smartphones “a craze”. A craze doesn’t continue over 25 years.
Interesting to read these news as a Finn! Estates and diesels have been the best selling cars for years and still are here in Finland! Cutting the estate model seems like an absolute suicide by VW
Nah buyers will just migrate to SUVs
Cutting the best selling car in Finland isn’t exactly suicide for a brand…
2018: no more 3dr or estate because of SUVs
2028: no more Golfs because of SUVs
2038: every car sold is an SUV
2048: your toaster, washing machine and phone come in SUV form only
2058: YOU are the suv
NO 3 DOOR?!?!?!?!?
Nooooooooo!!!
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