Yesterday we wrote about the updated Golf, known informally as the Mk7.5, due in local showrooms any day now. With the update, though, we still won’t get any two-door Golfs.
“We are four-door [only] for the hatchbacks. We no longer offer a two-door,” Megan Garbis, product manager, told us at the recent launch of the updated Golf in Michigan.
Long outsold by its four-door sister, news broke that Volkswagen of America was dropping the two-door GTI about a year ago. Even before then, though, that car was only available by order.
At the time, Garbis told Jalopnik: “Our buyers and our dealers say that they want a four-door […] Our GTI customers have families, and they want to be able to take them with them wherever they go.”
With the update, though, it seemed like there might be a sliver of hope for the two-door since the Jetta, whose manual GLI is no longer being produced for this generation, will pick manual production back up for the next generation.
Unfortunately, though, the same will not be true of the two-door Golf, which admittedly is only being refreshed, not replaced. Further, VW actually does rather well on manual sales, making it a more likely option to stay in the lineup.
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