Volkswagen does a recap of the GOLF lineage,
VW Golf Mk6 Timeline:
2008: Adaptive Cruise Control, Hill Start Assist, Dynamic cornering light, Adaptive chassis control
2009: Fourth Golf Variant
2009: Sixth Golf GTI
2009: Comeback of the Golf GTD
2010: Third Golf R
2010: New Cross Golf edition
2011: Fourth Golf Cabriolet
2011: Golf GTI Edition 35
2012: Production phased out after 2.85 million Golf Mk6 vehicles, launch of the Golf Mk7
Looking back at its sixth generation, which was produced between 2008 and 2012. The sixth-gen Golf earn the ‘World Car of the Year’ award in 2009.
- The Golf nameplate is a proud member of the Volkswagen Holy Trinity, alongside the now-defunct Beetle and the Passat
- Golf sold over 35 million units since the first one rolled off the assembly lines in 1974, 26 million of which made in Wolfsburg.
- In Wolfsburg alone, nearly an army division's worth of workers, 8,400 people, are involved with the Golf production lines.
-The new car is made up of 2,700 individual components
- From the moment the first such component is produced and until the car rolls off the assembly line in perfect working order, a brand new Golf would already have covered 69 km on the production lines (42 miles).
-There is a total of 962 wiring systems in the new Golf that, if spread head-to-head, would cover 1.34 km (0.83 miles)
-For reference, explains Volkswagen, that’s 31 wiring systems and nearly 100 meters more (328 feet) than in the previous generation
-Volkswagen Group's MQB architecture helped the automaker to keep down production costs and reduce manufacturing time for the new Golf compact car
-The platform, which will underpin 50 million vehicles from VW Group brands over the new, second generation, helped the automaker to keep a tight lid on costs
-The current Golf marked the switch to MQB from the previous PQ35 platform that only underpinned compact cars.
-As a result of the new car utilizing the same modular architecture, and only needed to replace about 20 percent of the equipment needed to build the body, largely tools to make design-specific parts like side paneling.
-Production will be also centered now in Wolfsburg, Germany, which has an installed capacity of 450,000 units across all Golf derivatives.
-About 8,400 employees will build the latest Golf at the brand's main German factory using roughly 2,700 individual parts
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Golf sales in Europe fell by 14 percent in the first eight months to 281,871 vehicles, according to JATO Dynamics market researchers. The Golf's closest competitor in the volume compact segment was the Skoda Octavia, whose volume was flat at 156,422 units, followed by the Ford Focus, whose sales rose 14 percent to 155,686.
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Here is the first official pic(likely) of the New Golf,
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