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01-10-2012 at 20:00: New Golf Celebrates Public Premiere

Only a few weeks ago the new seventh generation Golf was shown to a special crowd in Germany. Now it has made its World public debut at the Paris Motor Show.

At the Volkswagen display stand in Paris, everything revolves around the new Golf. In showing prototypes of the fuel-efficient Golf BlueMotion and the sporty Golf GTI, you would think by looking at them they are both almost ready to go into full production. As well as these models, Volkswagen is also providing a first look at some models of the future.

Available across Europe from the autumn, the Golf is being presented to a broad audience for the first time. With its larger interior (extra legroom in the back and 30 litres more luggage space), new pioneering safety systems such as multi-collision braking fitted as standard and a proactive passenger protection system (PreCrash), plus completely redesigned information and entertainment systems, Volkswagen is aiming to continue the bestseller’s success story.

New, fuel-efficient engines like the 103 kW petrol motor with cylinder deactivation and consumption of 4.8 litres per 100 kilometres (121 g CO2/km) use up to 23 per cent less fuel than their predecessors. Optimisation at this level on the new Golf is, however, not the exception, but the rule. The base models consume as petrol versions (TSI) 4.9 l/100 km (equating to 115 g CO2/km) and as diesels (TDI) just 3.8 l/100 km (99 g CO2 /km).

By showing the near-production concept of the next Golf BlueMotion, Volkswagen is also giving visitors an insight into some sophisticated and yet affordable fuel-saving technologies. The future Golf BlueMotion excels with impressive average fuel consumption of just 3.2 l/100 km, equating to a CO2 value of 85 g/km. It launches as a full production model in the summer of 2013.

Proof that even sporty vehicles can be fuel-efficient is provided by the new Golf GTI concept car. At just 6.0 l/100 km the seventh generation of the sporty classic again sets a new record. The average fuel consumption of the 162 kW Golf GTI has been reduced in comparison to its predecessor by 1.3 litres or 18 per cent.

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