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Fully optioned becomes the new standard: Volkswagen Golf GTI from $59,990 drive-away

30/05/2024

Volkswagen is delivering the highest specified, best-value Golf GTI hot hatchback ever with all optional packages becoming standard for a national $59,990 drive-away*. Read More >>
Volkswagen GTI and R performance vehicle sales up 264% as Golf R returns on-sale

4/01/2024

Volkswagen is placing an even greater stamp on its attainable performance vehicle leadership in Australia, with sales of GTI and R models increasing by 264% year on year to 5,499 sales in 2023.
Australia is the number one market for Tiguan R and T-Roc R in the world, confirming that customers in this country look overwhelmingly to Volkswagen for fast SUV models as well as the widest spread of hot hatchbacks. Read More >>
Volkswagen Golf R 20 Years – most powerful and fastest Golf ever coming to Australia

25/05/2023

Celebrating 20 years since the iconic Golf R32 became the quickest Volkswagen ever produced, the special edition Volkswagen Golf R 20 Years arrives to again reset the benchmark as the most powerful, fastest Golf ever.
The Golf R 20 Years will be on-sale on July 13, with 50 units coming to Australia at a recommended retail price (RRP) of $77,490, offering significant design and engineering enhancements over the series production Golf R. Read More >>
GTI is back! Volkswagen Golf variants return with increased supply

11/04/2023

The quintessential hot hatchback, Volkswagen's Golf GTI, and its 110TSI R-Line sibling both return to local showrooms in 2023 with a full feature set and around 1,300 units coming to Australia soon.
After a brief absence and prolonged supply constraints, the Volkswagen Golf GTI and Golf 110TSI R-Line become available to order effective immediately, and with waiting times decreasing to around three months in the near future. Read More >>
Performance bandwagon: Volkswagen Golf R Wagon is the ultimate five-door sport

27/06/2022

Volkswagen Australia customers can again join the performance bandwagon, with the Golf R Wagon arriving to combine 235kW, 420Nm and a 4.9-second 0-100km/h with extra rear legroom, a power tailgate and a 611-litre boot.
As the 'Year of the R' continues, this ultimate five-door sport complements the lauded Golf R hatch and Tiguan R, and the forthcoming T-Roc R and Touareg R. Read More >>
Volkswagen Golf R press kit now available

19/04/2022

The hottest Golf R ever – the 235kW/400Nm Mark 8 generation – is now available at Volkswagen dealerships priced from between $65,990 (hatchback) and $68,990 (wagon) RRP.
The press kit for the most powerful, dynamically adept and best-equipped production Volkswagen Golf R to date is now available in the RELATED DOCUMENTS section of this press release. Read More >>
Volkswagen drives around semi-conductor shortage and reduces Mark 8 Golf R by $1000

19/01/2022

Volkswagen Group Australia has found a means of ensuring steady supply of its much anticipated Mark 8 Golf R hatchback and Wagon – cutting a grand off the recommended retail price.
Arriving in showrooms during April, the new Golf R is the most powerful, dynamically adept and best-equipped production Volkswagen to date. Read More >>
More clubs fit in Golf's Wagon

21/06/2021

On sale in July, Volkswagen's Mark 8 Golf Wagon will be available in two grades that mirror the respective versions of the Golf hatchback, including the near fully autonomous open road capability afforded by way of VW's new IQ.DRIVE. Read More >>
Volkswagen's Golf GTI Mark 8: full specification and pricing

21/06/2021

Long the choice of keen drivers, Volkswagen's Golf GTI Mark 8 acquires the additional ability to almost drive itself. Expected in June, priced from $53,100, the GTI adds the new Golf range's IQ.DRIVE, with its near fully autonomous open road capability, and the Innovision Cockpit. These join an array of distinct GTI features, themselves an advancement from the Mark 7/7.5 GTI Read More >>
Volkswagen Golf Mark 8: full specification and pricing

21/06/2021

On sale in May Volkswagen's Mark 8 Golf features as standard the highest level of equipment yet made available on its perennial hatchback, including the near fully autonomous open road capability afforded by way of VW's new IQ.DRIVE. Read More >>
Volkswagen’s Golf GTI Mark 8: full specification and pricing

19/02/2021

Long the choice of keen drivers, Volkswagen's Golf GTI Mark 8 acquires the additional ability to almost drive itself. Read More >>
Nothing shades Volkswagen's hand painted Golf R Final Edition

12/06/2020

For the first time Australia's best-selling performance hatchback will be available in factory hand painted custom colours in the form of Volkswagen's Golf R Final Edition, which starts from $57,990. Read More >>
Gone in 5.7 seconds: Volkswagen's Golf GTI TCR is on the way to Australia

17/03/2020

AUSTRALIAN production of the fastest official Golf GTI to date commences next month ahead of this special edition's arrival in July. Read More >>
Nothing shades Volkswagen's hand painted Golf R Final Edition

17/01/2020

For the first time Australia's best-selling performance hatchback will be available in factory hand painted custom colours in the form of Volkswagen's Golf R Final Edition, which starts from $57,990. Read More >>
$3000 factory bonus on MY18 Golf R hatch and Wagon

25/02/2019

Volkswagen has a $3000 factory bonus on remaining stock of its MY18 Golf R hatch and Wagon until March 31. Some 200 examples of the MY18 R cars are with dealers nationwide. Read More >>
Golf GTI is $47,990 driveaway

18/02/2019

Shipments of Volkswagen's perennial Golf GTI in Model Year 19 form are arriving in numbers, an occasion marked by with a driveaway price tag of $47,990 until March 31. Read More >>
Volkswagen Golf GTI gets more go and gear for $45,490

5/11/2018

The Volkswagen Golf GTI that brings special edition performance and previously optional equipment into one standard package is on sale now. The MY19 Golf GTI comes with the output and drivetrain of last year's limited run three-door Golf GTI Performance Edition 1. Read More >>
2019 Volkswagen Golf range: full specification and pricing

26/10/2018

Volkswagen's Golf range is consolidated from 19 to 12 permanent variants for 2019 representing the most popular versions with in-demand equipment packages. Read More >>
Volkswagen adds a very Special Edition to its R cars

30/08/2018

Volkswagen's Golf R performance range is streamlined to two equipment packed variants for MY19 with the addition of 400 Special Editions that – in an Australian first – bristle with R Performance Options. Read More >>
Volkswagen Golf GTI gets more go and gear for $45,490

2/08/2018

The Volkswagen Golf GTI that brings special edition performance and previously optional equipment into one standard package can be ordered now. Read More >>

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