Renewed Volkswagen Golf: new lighting and infotainment

After the inevitable abandonment of the current eighth generation, the Volkswagen Golf will face a fully electric future in a few years. The new electric Golf will not make its appearance until 2028 at the earliest, Volkswagen CEO Thomas Schäfer previously indicated. Whether that future Golf will go through life as an ID Golf or simply as a Golf when the ID label is no longer necessary, remains to be seen. What is certain is that the current Golf will get a facelift. We can now show you the renewed Volkswagen Golf for the first time.

The interior of the renewed Volkswagen Golf. With push buttons!

We showed you photos of a test copy of the facelifted Golf back in September last year, but that white prototype was indistinguishable from the original from the outside. That test model did have, among other things, a completely new and considerably larger infotainment screen than the current Golf. In addition, the car seems to have a steering wheel with physical instead of touch-sensitive buttons. Inside the Golf, so a few things are waiting, but the appearance of the car is also being updated. We now see the renewed exterior of the now 3.5 year old Volkswagen for the first time.

As radically as smaller brother Polo was renewed in 2021, the Volkswagen Golf will not be visually revised. Nevertheless, the exterior of the Golf is also changing, although you have to look closely for it. The only briefly packed test sample – given the otherwise redesigned tailgate in the left front fender a plug-in hybrid eHybrid – has new headlights, among other things. They retain their optical flare, but are flatter than before and taper towards the center. The layout of the lamps is also being revised. Volkswagen adjusts the bumper work and also polishes the rear lights. The shape of the rear lights does not seem to change, but their interpretation does.

Volkswagen may show more of the facelifted Golf later this year.