Only 525 More Sleeps Till the First Mk8 Golf Rolls Off the Line!

The Mk7.5 Golf may have only come here recently (review*) but Volkswagen is already hard at work on the next generation.

At the Golf 8’s Supplier Summit, in Wolfsburg this week, VW’s top brass spoke about the importance of the coming Golf, which will start rolling off the line in just 75 weeks, or, put another way, summer 2019.

“Together with the I.D family, the introduction of the upcoming Golf generation will be the most strategically important product launch for the brand,” said Ralf Brandstatter, head of procurement.

The next Golf, promised Karlheinz Hell, head of the compact series group and rad-name-haver, will meet customer needs in design, economics, CO2 values [sic], and comfort and reliability.

“The next Golf will take Volkswagen into the era of fully connected vehicles with extended autonomous driving functions,” said Hell. “It will have more software on board than ever before. It will always be online and its digital cockpit and assistance systems will be the benchmark in terms of connectivity and safety.”

Wolfsburg will continue to be the “capital” of Golf production and already produces 2,000 Golf family vehicles a day.

The Golf family, internationally, is the brand’s biggest. With more than 3.4 million Golfs sold in 2017 alone, the Golf has been the brand’s heart since 1974.

Sadly, summer 2019 is only a production date for Wolfsburg. If we had to guess, we wouldn’t expect the Golf 8 to launch until the fall (Paris/Frankfurt, if we were putting money down) and even then it’ll only be in Europe. Based on previous models, we aren’t expecting the Mk8 Golf to come stateside for at least another six months, if not more.

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