Following a mid-cycle facelift planned for the current model in 2024, the VW Golf will live to see a ninth generation later this decade. It'll do away with the combustion engines and become a purely electric model positioned below the ID.3. The folks from Wolfsburg have already announced the "GTI" and "R" hot hatches will soldier on in the EV era, and a new report from Autocar states the latter version is already planned.
As previously reported, the ID.2 riding on the upcoming front-wheel-drive-based MEB-Plus platform could ultimately get the Golf moniker and spawn a GTI. The British magazine has it on good authority the new architecture is being engineered to accommodate a dual-motor setup, thus opening the possibility for an all-paw R. An AWD system is also being considered for a crossover version of the ID.2 to mirror the relationships between the Polo / T-Cross and the Golf / T-Roc.
