{"id":82465,"date":"2025-05-19T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=82465"},"modified":"2025-05-19T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T11:20:00","slug":"its-official-volkswagen-confirms-new-electric-golf-gti-will-be-fwd-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=82465","title":{"rendered":"It’s official: Volkswagen confirms new electric Golf GTI will be FWD only"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Volkswagen CEO Thomas Sch\u00e4fer has confirmed the company\u2019s plans to develop a full range of \u201cmonster\u201d electric hot-hatches, including an all-new electric Golf GTI that will stay true to its iconic namesake with a boxy profile and, of course, front-wheel drive<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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After months of conjecture, VW CEO Thomas Sch\u00e4fer says an all-electric hot-hatch version of the company\u2019s next-generation Golf is, in fact, coming soon. What\u2019s more, Sch\u00e4fer told the UK\u2019s Auto Express<\/a><\/em> that \u201cit\u2019ll be a monster car.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the new Golf GTI? He says it\u2019s just the beginning. \u201cWe\u2019ll bring through a whole group of GTI, starting with the ID.2 GTI which is the first one coming electrically,\u201d Sch\u00e4fer told Phil McNamara. \u201cWhen we started this journey, [we told the] the development teams, \u2018we\u2019ve got to be proud of the GTI of the future,\u2019 and the team\u2019s taking that on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charged up<\/h2>\n\n
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ID.GTI concept; via Volkswagen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The upcoming electric Golf GTI\u2019s closest mechanical relative is likely to be the ID.3 GTX, which features a 321 hp electric motor sending power to the rear wheels<\/a>. Assuming a similar output, that would give the upcoming FWD GTI a staggering 80 more horsepower than today\u2019s 2.0L, turbocharged, ICE-powered GTI.<\/p>\n

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As a graduate of The Cadillac Allant\u00e9 School of Front-wheel Drive Performance<\/a>\u2122, I shudder to think of the kind of torque steer something like a 321 hp FWD hot-hatch would produce \u2013\u00a0but we\u2019ve come a long way in the last thirty years, and today\u2019s torque-vectoring traction control systems are sure to keep the new FWD VW GTI under control.<\/p>\n

In fact, such a system was alluded to back in 2023, when the ID.GTI concept based on the ID.2 (shown, above) was first unveiled:<\/p>\n

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The way the first electric GTI unleashes its dynamic capabilities is new and exciting. The worlds of the electric ID. GTI Concept and turbocharged Golf GTI meet up when it comes to transmitting the power to the front wheels. A front-axle differential lock\u2014electronically controlled by a Vehicle Dynamics Manager\u2014is used, just like the current generation of the GTI. The Golf GTI and Golf GTI Clubsport were the first Volkswagen models with this traction-control system. With the ID. GTI Concept, an electric Volkswagen now has this intelligent system on board for the first time.<\/p>\n

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If the big boss is to be believed, the system works. \u201cWe\u2019ve driven a few prototypes on the new set-up, and it\u2019s mind blowing,\u201d said Sch\u00e4fer. \u201cWhat about the sound? What about the total feel, the handling and so on. It can be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Expect the electric Golf GTI to bow sometime in 2026 with a semi-reasonable price tag<\/a>, with a hotter, less reasonably priced AWD Golf R version and a smaller, ID.1 based GTI model following a year later<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Electrek\u2019s Take<\/h2>\n\n
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Retro VW interior; via Reddit user pedallingpanda.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If the new electric VW Golf GTI doesn\u2019t have plaid Recaro-style sport seats I won\u2019t care, no matter how quick it is, what it costs, how much range it has, or how cool it looks in my neighbor Jeff\u2019s driveway (that dude buys GTIs).<\/p>\n

SOURCE<\/strong>: AutoExpress UK<\/a>; images by pedallingpanda<\/a>; VW<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Volkswagen CEO Thomas Sch\u00e4fer has confirmed the company\u2019s plans to develop a full range of \u201cmonster\u201d electric hot-hatches, including an all-new electric Golf GTI that will stay true to its iconic namesake with a boxy profile and, of course, front-wheel drive. After months of conjecture, VW CEO Thomas Sch\u00e4fer says an all-electric hot-hatch version of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}