Some official details of the production version of the Mk6 Golf GTI have been revealed, along with official production versions of the car’s 3-door body done up in a hot red paintjob. Under the hood will be a 2.0 litre TSI engine. No official details have been revealed as of now, but expect power output to be around 200 horses, perhaps the same 210 PS that the GTI Concept had, a mere 10 PS increase over the Mk5 GTI.
Other features that the Concept car had are an LSD called the XDS system, and Adaptive Chassis Control which is much like Audi Drive Select. It can vary steering assistance, throttle response and adjust pneumatic damper settings.
We’ll have to wait until the official press release is out to find out if these make their way into the production car. In the meanwhile, please enjoy the nice photos of the red Mk6 GTI after the jump.
After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
somehow I still feel that the current Mk5 Golf looks more agressive on the front than this new one.
shoon1983 said,
February 3, 2009 @ 6:23 am
somehow I still feel that the current Mk5 Golf looks more agressive on the front than this new one.
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agree with you on that. The Mk5 was making VW losses per car sold. So VW got lazy and jus slapped the sirocco front and the toureg rear on to the Mk6.
The rims looks dated. Should have been updated along side with the new body…il go with the Mk5/Sirocco.
cam.shaft
it’s like mixing the mark5 gti with the sirocco …
Now that I remembered, the back of the car does look like the old Daihatsu Charade
boring design
theres no x-factor
agree with u all
and it is too EG6 to me
the uber hot hatch
uk civic hatch still looks so much younger
Elegance in Simplicity
those rims will eat up people
like bloody pondan’s car
better be a pondan rather than be a man but dont know how to react as a real man.. man who loves scandal with somebody’s wife.. who crazy for somebody’s wife..
VW car designs are getting too plain and boring..what happen? need to do another Chris Bangle..just like what BMW went through..
so the only difference between this and the scirocco is the body shape and the engine huh?
somehow i think the scirocco will cannibalise gti’s sale.
ya, agree with some of u guys here, the Mk5 looks better…..
but the gti has the better interior