大众高尔夫自从1974年诞生以来已经延续了七代车型，全球销量超过3500万辆。现在，高尔夫正朝着第八代车型推进，现在距离该车投产还有75周时间。换言之，该车将于明年六月投产。大众近日在其总部狼堡举行的“第八代高尔夫供应商峰会”上正式公布了第八代高尔夫投产时间，参会的有来自108个国家的180位供应商总经理。大众表示，80%的供应商已经签署了供应协议，因此新车开发投产工作进展顺利。为了投产第八代高尔夫，大众将投资18亿欧元，而狼堡工厂仍是新一代高尔夫最主要的组装厂，该厂日产超过2000辆高尔夫。第八代高尔夫的设计草图也在供应商大会上曝光，不过由于只是显示了车身基本线条，因此无法确定更多细节。现在判断新车外观还为时过早，但预计新车会采用渐进式改款。
VW Golf 8 Production To Start In June 2019
When most people think of golf, usually the sport that has made Tiger Woods famous springs to mind, but for (world) car fans, it’s the Volkswagen Golf that immediately pops up. That’s how important the compact model is, not just for being a veritable cash cow for the VW Group, but also for becoming one of the most popular nameplates in the industry.
It has been around since 1974 and since then it has spawned a total of seven generations, thus making it one of the oldest models in the business. More than 35 million cars later, the Golf is now gearing up to embrace its eighth installment, which will officially hit the assembly line in 75 weeks from today. In other words, the Golf 8 will enter production towards the end of June 2019.
The big announcement was made by VW during the recent “Golf 8 Supplier Summit” organized at the Volkswagen Arena at home in Wolfsburg, Germany. No less 180 top managers of the most important VW suppliers from the components industry came together at the meeting to establish a plan for the next iteration of the compact model, which is being sold in a whopping 108 countries. The automaker wishes to point out that 80 percent of all suppliers for the next Golf are already under contract, so work is well underway.
To make it all happen, the VW Group is investing a total of €1.8 billion, which works out to about $2.2 billion at current exchange rates. The Wolfsburg factory - which is Europe's biggest car plant - will remain the most important one for the Golf output and it’s the place where more than 2,000 cars from the expansive Golf family are produced on a daily basis.
A design sketch was shown at the Golf 8 Supplier Summit, but there’s not much to see as it’s only a somewhat generic outline of a tiny three-door version. It’s too early to say how it’s going to look like, but knowing VW and its appetite for evolutionary designs.