2016 VW Golf Facelift
The facelifted seventh-generation VW
Golf is set to debut with two new 1,5-liter four-cylinder engines and a smaller
1-liter turbocharged three-cylinder.
As one might expect, one of the
1.5-liter engines will be driven by petrol while the other will run on diesel.
The petrol unit will be based around the current 1.4-liter unit but gain 100 cc
in capacity thanks to a longer stroke. As for the 1.5-liter diesel, it will be
based around the existing 1.6-liter TDI but be reduced in size due to a
decrease in bore size.
The roll-out of these three new engines
will come as VW begins offering engines with a uniform cylinder capacity size
of 500 cc, allowing all engines to be made on the same production line and
believed to provide the best medium of power and efficiency.
As for the 1.5-liter petrol unit, it'll
retain the cylinder deactivation technology of the current engine but be
outfitted with an all-new turbocharger.
Interestingly, the facelifted VW Golf
won't receive these three engines to start with. According to Volkswagen brand
chief executive Herbert Diess, “They will make their debut in the facelift of
the Golf 7, but not at the beginning. We will launch them when it makes sense
to produce them for CO2 regulations, because they are more expensive than the
current engines.”
Once the new Golf receives the engine
trio, they'll become available on the new Tiguan, Audi A1, Audi A3 and a number
of Seat and Skoda models.
