More information about the future Volkswagen Golf 2013

Of course when I say that the Volkswagen Golf is still one of the best-selling cars , not saying anything to anyone, but how to get the next generation remains a top seller?. Well today, we could get ahead a bit to what will be the next-generation Volkswagen Golf will arrive in 2013. Data to be leaking slowly, and make us suspect that will remain one of the kings in the compact segment, no doubt.

And is that much of the blame for the success that could have the new Golf 2013, it will be a lighter model , stronger and better in every way. And this is because at Volkswagen have been working on the new Golf ago time. A model that it seems that we will see for the first time at the Paris Salon of 2012, just before landing in Europe in 2013. And what will you do so special.

Well first, it will be a model that rest on a new platform, new engines with more frugal and small, and the standardization of new technologies in active safety, which will be a milestone in the automotive industry. Also, do not be ruled out or anything, the new GTI will be even better, and we returned to the lines of the original hatchback but with more range improvements.

All these improvements, rest under the new modular transverse platform Volkswagen (MQB, Modular Transverse Matrix), which provide the basis for the new front-drive platform for Volkswagen, which include models from the Polo to the Passat own, and that shall extend to the sister brand of Volkswagen, Audi with the Audi A3 2013 of which we have discussed recently . It is thanks to this new platform, Volkswagen will be one of the first brands to revolutionize the way we produce various models of both brands.

And is that with this new platform, you can set the platform Volkswagen MQB as if it were a Lego, as it will allow VW to form up to six types of chassis configurations to accommodate alternative depending on their size and length. That is, parameters that may change as the length of the battle of the chassis will accommodate larger batteries, and various fuel tanks, among other parameters.

This will make VW platforms can manufacture high-strength steel, or aluminum, as does Audi, with a new form of patented manufacturing process, in the same production line, which is a novelty. That is why the new Golf will average about 70 kg less than the Mk6, with this new chassis but also to the new suspension and lighter engines. In fact, officially, the engineers at VW want the new Golf comes to weighing scales very similar to what we had in the old Mk4 90's. Not to mention that the new GTI might have the same chassis, but made of aluminum, so it would be about 90 kg less than the previous GTI.

Another aspect to highlight is the new media and entertainment system from Volkswagen will be designed in a new platform developed by NVIDIA, which will manage systems such as radar, cameras, adaptive cruise control, automatic lights , and electronic parking brake, and the detection of fatigue that will inform the driver when to take a coffee, or take a break.

While in the case of motorization, the spectrum of displacements will move between 1.4 liters and 2.0 liters. However, if you hope to see many a 1.4 turbo, it seems that this is not the case, since this type of engine will go to Audi, although we might see the odd 1.8 turbo of 180 hp and also a 2.0 turbo up to 280 hp maximum. All front-wheel drive as standard. And in the case of the GTI the power range will be about 230-240cv with maximum torque from 350 Nm. In any way, and until the Paris model, we have seen circulating with some camouflage .