Golf - now confirmed dead (new photos)

[blower 795]

Well as i began to see on other photo's and confirmed with these much more clearer photo's.

 

This is not a golf, its completely lost its golf shape, it looks more like a cross between a Passat and an Arteon. The long wheel base has killed the shape. It looks closer to a saloon than the iconic Golf shaped hatchback that's defined nearly every other hatchback. Just look at that massive front end, it overhangs more, the bonnet is longer and appears to bulge up as its been pulled down so far. The rear overhangs the back a bit more too. This thing is going to struggle to fit in some garages and parking spaces!

 

It's not a golf, the golf is dead

 

 

Also whose idea was it to put that pearl necklace on the rear! 

[JonSW 285]

Rear quarters from side on is a Golf, the rest is Astra/[insert name of Korean car you never look twice at here].

 

I thought by the third photo that the driver was going to dump it in the ditch in embarrassment!

 

The front is just gopping 🤮

[Raiden 600]

From the back it looks a bit like a 1 series.

[samx300 263]

I do observe hints of BMW, Jag and Subaru from various angles. Maybe the design grows on people but from first impressions, its' not as iconic as we've come to expect the Golf redesigns. Certainly not as striking as the change from a Mk6 to a Mk7.

[FJ1000 26]

That. Is. Minging.


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[blower 795]

Since the Mk5 you have seen an evolution....it got a little bit bigger on the mk7 but lost none of it's iconic shape.

 

Based on the new direction, the Mk9 will look like this!

 

[Charles M 593]

2 hours ago, JonSW said:

Rear quarters from side on is a Golf, the rest is Astra/[insert name of Korean car you never look twice at here].

 

I thought by the third photo that the driver was going to dump it in the ditch in embarrassment!

 

The front is just gopping 🤮

 

Have to agree with the Astra bit. I saw the OP title with half an eye on the photos, and immediately thought "wot's he on about? that's an Astra with a VW badge on", thinking it some sort of photoshop un-serious post.

[BobbyT 827]

not keen on the front, will wait to see it in the metal. Looks very 1 series with a long stupid face

[Booth11 14,329]

Oh dear god!  The illicit love child of a Passat, 1 Series and Astra threesome!  

[FJ1000 26]

It’s got something of the seat toledo about it



That sad, “shoot me now” depressed face...

Well. Makes the Mk7 look better doesn’t it!


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[blower 795]

Well the new Mk8 Golf is the sausage dog Golf......and now we see the all American diet Golf R :

 

 

[Jon-Paul 975]

It looks like a Vel-Satis ! An odd looking carbuncle of a car owned mainly by history teachers and heavily bearded people with terrible eye-sight and cluttered homes. 

[AndyCook 62]

True about the vel satis. 

Had displeasure of having a lift in one once. Owned by a crazy french mathematics professor ...

[DDave 41]

 shiiiiiit A45 AMG for me next 👎👎

[Charles M 593]

C43 Estate for me I reckon.