An icon, reimagined. The new Golf.
For 50 years, you have journeyed with the Golf, an icon that has evolved alongside you. With its renewed design, advanced features, and enhanced performance, the new Golf stands as the pinnacle of Volkswagen engineering. A testament to how every Golf has led us to this moment.
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Safety you can trust
Drive with confidence knowing you're protected by features like Autonomous Emergency Braking, Blind Spot Monitor, Driver Alert System, and Adaptive Cruise Control to keep you safe, always.
Modern tech, classic comfort
Experience entertainment and navigation like never before with a 12.9-inch infotainment display and a heads-up display. Enjoy upgraded tech while maintaining the familiarity and ease of classic push buttons on the steering wheel.
Precision meets performance
Reap the rewards of enhanced engine performance and efficiency. With sports suspension (available on R-Line and GTI variants), the Golf delivers exceptional handling and stays composed through every bend, offering both responsiveness and touring capability.
Exterior
The new-look classic
Harmoniously coordinated: With illuminated Volkswagen logo (only available on R-Line and GTI) and stylish bumpers, the Golf knows how to impress visually. The new headlights and tail light clusters make it a real eye-catcher.
Interior
A showcase of light projections
When unlocking your Golf GTE, the lights on the headlights, tail light clusters, and radiator grille will illuminate as you approach. The door handle recesses will also light up, and a welcoming light will be projected onto the ground from the exterior mirror.
R-Line
A sporty new look
The Golf is also available in the sporty R-Line.
The exterior design is characterised by distinctive bumpers in the "R-Line" design with elements in high-gloss black, also high-gloss black side skirts and black 18-inch light-alloy wheels with high-sheen exterior surfaces.
The interior features a multifunction leather sports steering wheel, the driving profile selection and top-of-the-range sports seats with seat covers in the R-Line fabric and ArtVelours microfleece.
Seats
The comfortable way to travel
The seats in the new Golf are not only comfortable, they are also flexible. The split-folding rear bench seat lets you extend the luggage compartment as you need. Depending on the equipment line, the seats are covered as standard with fabric and ArtVelours microfleece.
The optional leather seats come with active air conditioning as an option, which provide cooling in summer and warmth in winter. Spoil yourself a little on the road too and ease the tension of everyday life.
Background lighting
Your personal touch.
You can gently illuminate the interior of your new Golf as an option with just a tap of the finger and choose from up to 30 colours. Multiple light strips and illuminated decorative elements allow you to create a personalised lighting atmosphere.
Panoramic sunroof
Expand your horizons
Enjoy the full view with the optional electric tilting/sliding panoramic sunroof. Thanks to its enormous glass surface, it bathes all passengers in more light and offers an unrestricted view of the sky. Its electric roller sunshade provides protection from excessive sunlight.
If you want to enjoy some fresh air, the front half of the roof can optionally be raised or moved completely backwards.
Technology
Engine
Power redesigned
Your Golf comes with a choice of two engines: either a 1.4 litre TSI (110kW, 250Nm) Life and R-Line or a 2.0 TSI engine (195kW, 370Nm) Golf GTI.
Digital Cockpit and Digital Cockpit Pro
Important details at a glance.
Would you prefer just to see the speed and mileage display? Or also other driving data, such as a full view of the navigation map or the title of the track you’re listening to right now?
It’s all in your hands: Configure your high-resolution (10.2 inch) optional Digital Cockpit Pro yourself with ease, so that it’s exactly the way you want it, including highlighting of certain graphics.
Radios
Have you heard?
Composition Media radio
The 10.4-inch Composition Media radio includes wireless App-Connect (for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto), which allows you to operate apps directly in your Volkswagen. And with Digital Cockpit Pro you can keep an eye on your vehicle information at all times - configured to your wishes.
Further equipment features and functions:
- Touchscreen (10.4 inch) with proximity sensor
- Mobile phone interface with inductive charging function
- USB-C ports (charging capacity of up to 45 W)
- Bluetooth mobile phone interface
Discover Media
Standard on the R-Line & GTI, the Discover Media navigation system ensures intuitive navigation with an aerial for FM radio reception.
Further equipment features and functions:
- Touchscreen (12.9 inch)
- Six loudspeakers
- Centre speaker
- USB-C ports (charging capacity of up to 45 W)
- Mobile phone interface with inductive charging function
- IDA voice assistant
Keyless access
Golf, open up!
Save yourself the bother of searching for your car key in your trousers, handbag or jacket pocket: once you have the key with you and you are no more than 1.5 metres away from your Golf, the doors and boot lid unlock automatically as if by magic. You also don’t need the key to start the engine. All it takes is the touch of a button. And if the keyless access isn’t working, then it just means that your key isn’t in your pocket after all. Perhaps it’s on the kitchen table?
Head-up display
At a glance. All of the important information.
With the optional heads-up display, part of the windscreen becomes a projection surface that can display your speed, messages from your driver assist systems or navigation instructions. The projection itself is still clearly legible, even when light is shining directly onto the windscreen. So you remain perfectly informed – without needing to take your eyes off the road.
Harman Kardon sound system
Sounds like more. A lot more.
Harman/Kardon sound system
Optional: the eight synchronised loudspeakers with total power output of 480 watts ensure the perfect surround sound, also thanks to the digital 12-channel amplifier and the additional centre speaker. The subwoofer delivers precise bass tones.
You can therefore celebrate your favourite music in style.
Safety features
Keeps you in lane.
Keeps you in lane. And keeps others at a distance.
With the Travel Assist you have an extremely useful driving assistant on board. It can keep you in your lane, maintain a minimum distance to the vehicle in front and the maximum speed you have set.
One of the features it uses to do this is adaptive lane guidance. This actively keeps the vehicle in the middle of the lane. Travel Assist adapts to your driving style and can also drive further to the left or right in its own lane instead of exactly in the middle.
If your Volkswagen is fitted with Park Assist, Side Assist and a navigation system, Travel Assist can also actively support you when changing lanes on the motorway as an option.
Staying in lane.
Staying in lane.
Monotonous journeys can sometimes turn into dangerous situations. This is where Lane Assist can help: From a speed of 60 km/h, it can detect whether the vehicle unintentionally leaves its own lane. With corrective steering intervention, it can direct the driver’s attention back to what’s happening on the road.
The Side Assist can alert you to dangerous lane changes. An LED indicator in the exterior mirror tells you when a vehicle is in your blind spot or approaching quickly from behind.
When you signal to change lane, Side Assist calculates whether one of these vehicles could pose a danger to you based on position or speed – and draws your attention to this by flashing conspicuously.
Together with the Lane Assist lane departure warning it can also provide support through corrective steering intervention.
The Rear Traffic Alert (standard on R-Line) warns about vehicles crossing your path when reversing out of a parking space. If you do not react, the system can intervene and brake the vehicle to alleviate or even prevent a collision.
The exit warning system (standard on R-Line) helps you to avoid dangerous situations when exiting your vehicle. It can detect when another vehicle is approaching from behind and warn you acoustically and visually before getting out of the car.
Keeps its distance.
Keeps its distance. And sticks to speed limits.
The Adaptive Cruise Control ACC helps you to maintain a previously set maximum speed and preset distance to the vehicle in front.
The standard Front Assist emergency braking system with pedestrian and cyclist monitoring can warn you of critical situations involving pedestrians, cyclists and other vehicles. It can even brake automatically in emergency situations. In evasive and turn-off situations, Front Assist can potentially prevent an impending accident within the limits of the system by issuing a warning or applying the emergency brake.
Golf R-Line Touring Package
This sleek new variant combines striking design with advanced features. Positioned above our current R-Line variant, the R-Line Touring Package offers premium specifications at exceptional value. Elevate your driving experience with a car that’s as stylish as it is smart.
- Electric adjustment seat (driver only)
- Heating function
- Ventilation function
- Memory function (driver only)
- Power adjustable lumbar support (driver only)
- R-Line "Vienna" leather sport seats
- Harman/Kardon premium sound system
- Heads-up display (HUD)
Golf Variants
Golf Life
Price incl. GST
$44,990
Equipment Highlights:
- 17" Nottingham Alloy Wheels
- 10.4" infotainment system
- Wireless App-Connect (Android Auto & Apple CarPlay)
- 10-colour ambient lighting
- Climatronic automatic air conditioning system
- LED Headlights
- Front Assist (Autonomous Emergency Braking)
- Pedestrian & Cyclist monitoring
- Lane Assist (Lane Keeping System)
- Side Assist (Blind Spot Monitor)
- Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) with Travel and Emergency Assist
Golf R Line
Price incl. GST
$50,990
Equipment Highlights:
- 18" York Alloy Wheels
- 12.9" Discover Media Satellite Navigation
- Heads-up Display (HUD)
- Wireless App-Connect (Android Auto & Apple CarPlay)
- Exclusive R-Line interior & exterior
- R-Line sports front seats
- 30-colour ambient lighting
- Climatronic 3-zone air conditioning
- LED Headlights & Taillights
- Front Assist (Autonomous Emergency Braking)
- Pedestrian & Cyclist monotoring
- Lane Assist (Lane Keeping System)
- Side Assist (Blind Spot Monitor)
- Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) with Travel and Emergency Assist
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3. The official fuel consumption, emissions, and EV range figures determined by the WLTP test should be used as a guide only, or for vehicle to vehicle comparison. Actual results may vary due to factors such as driving or environmental conditions.
4. International models might be shown for illustrative purposes only, and New Zealand specifications may vary
5. Some colours in these images are not available in New Zealand, the product guide contains the correct colours available to the New Zealand market
6. Additional and optional accessories may have an effect on fuel efficiency. Optional accessories and add-on packages are available at an additional cost
7. App-Connect is compatible for selected apps with the latest smartphone versions of iOS and Android, active data service, and connection cable (sold separately)
8. Safety technologies are designed to assist the driver, but should not be used as a substitute for safe driving practices
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