

As an all-rounder, the Golf simply cannot be beaten. But it’s spacious, quiet, safe, and smart. Price-wise, the Golf is a more premium option than say, a Focus or an Astra, but it's also a far more multi-talented one, offering a securer and supremely refined drive in regular guise, and a high-quality, largely ergonomic cabin – we used to have higher praise for it, but recently VW’s had a go at ruining it inside with new touchscreens that are worse, and so on. See what we mean about having all the bases covered? At the track, the manual-equipped GTI was the slower of our two testers, hitting 60 mph in 6.2 seconds before finishing the quarter mile in 14.7 seconds at 98.6 mph. Or the electric e-Golf, with its 190-mile range. Want to meet in the middle? You can have a GTE plug-in hybrid or the GTD go-faster diesel. Volkswagen Golf Automatic Transmission Speed Sensor Reviews.

Click to Enlarge (Read Reviews) Website Reviews. Need more performance? There’s a GTI hot hatch – the tartan-seated icon – and the R super-hatch. 2018 Volkswagen Golf GTI Fuel Economy and Real-World MPG Fuel economy in the sport-compact class ranges from acceptable to outstanding, and the GTI provides some solid numbers. The official fuel economy figure is up to 235.4mpg, but this is almost meaningless what you get will depend entirely on how you use the car. 2003-2004 Volkswagen Golf : GL: Automatic: 2000-2002 Volkswagen Golf : Automatic: Show More. Need more practicality? There’s a longer estate, or taller Golf SV mini-MPV. This Mk7 version is lighter than before, and in facelifted, post-2016 guise, offers self-driving-in-traffic function, and updated engines. The Golf is to hatchbacks what the Mercedes S-Class is to luxury limos, or the iPhone is to mobile telephones: a crowd-pleasing, endlessly popular device that covers every base 99.9 per cent of the population could ever want – or need – it to.
