An electrical GTI is coming in two years’ time, and Abarth launches an fascinating model of the 595 pocket rocket.

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Electric Volkswagen GTI Coming In 2026

While we’re patiently ready for the GTI to get a mid-cycle facelift in 2024, Volkswagen is already pondering forward. The firm’s design boss took to Instagram to announce a totally electrical model is coming in 2026. Andreas Mindt shared a sketch of the unique Golf GTI alongside the lately unveiled ID. GTI concept.

Since the Mk1 got here out in 1975, VW has managed to promote greater than 2.8 million items of the Grand Tourer Injection out of a complete of greater than 35 million Golfs bought all through eight generations. The first one with out a combustion engine is arriving in roughly two years’ time. It ought to peacefully coexist with the gasoline scorching hatch for a number of years.

The sketch seemingly means that VW will use the “Golf” moniker for a manufacturing model of the ID. GTI. However, lest we neglect the idea was based mostly on one other showcar, the ID. 2all. That was a smaller car seen as future electrical substitute of the Polo supermini. The peeps from Wolfsburg mentioned it might be “as spacious as a Golf, as affordable as a Polo.” Both ideas had been underpinned by the forthcoming MEB Entry platform for front-wheel-drive autos. The ninth-generation, electric-only Golf due in 2028 will journey on the upcoming SSP platform.

Time will inform whether or not the electrical GTI due in 2026 might be a Golf GTI or an ID.2 GTI because it’s all a bit complicated proper now. We wager it will be the latter. In the meantime, VW has trademarked a brand new “GTI” emblem the place the “I” is replaced by a lightning bolt.

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