Volkswagen launches the new Golf GTI in the Middle East region
Icon of Sportiness - New edition of a 1.7 million bestseller
Volkswagen Middle East has recently unleashed its new sixth generation of the Golf GTI on the streets across the region. Customers from around the Middle East can now embrace this new iconic sporty car, its groundbreaking capabilities and astonishing performance.
With the first generation of the Golf GTI, Volkswagen presents a Golf of the purely sporty type. Despite originally only being planned as a limited series of 5,000, the GTI was simply destined to be a bestseller and quickly became synonymous with nifty sporty compacts. The Golf GTI is no ordinary car – it is also an automotive perspective on the world. Since the debut of the first and the discontinuation of the fifth generation, more than 1.7 million buyers made the GTI to the world’s bestseller. In 2004, the fifth Golf GTI brought back this legend more powerfully than ever before.
Now this is being followed up by the sixth GTI, even sharper and more confident than all of the others before it. A GTI whose chassis systems – with standard electronic transverse differential lock (XDS) – redefines behaviour in curves and traction. A 240 km/h fast GTI that is more fun to drive with its powerful 155 kW / 210 hp turbo engine and yet only consumes 7.3 litres super unleaded (0.7 l/100 km improvement). A GTI that delivers audible dynamics with a sound generator and new exhaust system design (two tailpipes, one left and one right). A GTI that successfully transfers the tradition of the original version to the future.
