Volkswagen discontinues top sellers with combustion engines

Volkswagen is pulling the plug on the brand’s best-selling model. Although it’s better to write “put the plug in the best-selling model”. The carmaker will stop delivering the Golf with a petrol engine, CEO Thomas Schäfer told Automobilwoche.

Volkswagen expects a large proportion of its customers to drive electrically in the future. But that doesn’t mean that the brand is saying goodbye to the Golf and seeing the ID.3 as its successor, for example.

Volkswagen discontinues top sellers with combustion engines

Volkswagen’s best-selling car will continue to exist for the time being, but the range of petrol, diesel and hybrid drives will be discontinued. In any case, no new petrol engine is being developed for the new Golf generation. The current model is the last with a petrol engine. With the Golf 8, Schäfer wants to reach the end of the decade, a facelift is to come.

Maybe a petrol engine

For the time being there is still a Volkswagen Golf with a combustion engine. Schäfer also says that one should keep an eye on developments in the world. “If the world develops very differently than expected by 2026 or 2027, we could develop a completely new vehicle, but I don’t think that will happen,” he told the German medium. The CEO speaks of a non-electric car.

It is very likely that the triumph of the electric car will not be stopped and the best-selling Volkswagen of all time will no longer be supplied with a petrol engine after the end of this decade.

For Volkswagen Golf fans, this may be the time to buy another R. Autovisie editor Dries van den Elzen shows how beautifully the hot hatchback drives in the video below on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife. Here, of course, he also tests the special track mode of the super-fast Golf.