Prime Highlights :
- VW to sell 2025 Golf GTI in India from mid-2025.
- 265hp hot hatch segment with offline-only sells low volume.
Key Facts :
- Price aggressively: ₹45–52 lakh (ex-showroom).
- Sold as a Completely Built Unit (CBU) under the 2,500-unit homologation-free import scheme.
Key Background :
World-famous 2025 Golf GTI from Volkswagen will enter India for the first time, and the car will arrive on Indian shores by mid-2025. It’s a big move for the German brand to give its premium and high-performance model line-up a boost in India. Golf GTI will fill the shoes of limited-time-period Polo GTI in India for 2016 and is most likely to pocket sufficient popularity amongst hot hatchelites and enthusiast types for a taste of hot hatch thrills and European mojo.
The 2025 Golf GTI features a turbo petrol inline-four 2.0-litre engine producing 265hp and 370Nm of torque. GTI features a 7-speed twin-clutch auto manual transmission and accelerates the 0 speeds from 0 to 100 km/h in 5.9 seconds. Even being fitted with top-level driving assistance in the shape of progressive steering, an electronically controlled front-axle differential lock, and adaptive damping, the latter two as a package deal, its 250 km/h electronic speed limiter does a lot to tell us about its racing heritage.
It draws design inspiration from the model line’s heritage styling features such as honeycomb-textured grilles, red stripes, LED light strips, and twin exhausts. It gets 18-inch diamond-cut alloy wheels and sport bumpers to complement its sporting intent further. It is clad in tartan-print sport seats, one-off digital instrument cluster for the GTI, and a 12.9-inch touchscreen infotainment system with voice assist onboard.
The Volkswagen will also retail the Golf GTI in cyberspace but half of it on India’s CBU track without homologation. It’s a premium car, after all, so its USP is not compromising on useability, technology, or hard core drive dynamics. It’s in a new direction and with the way the Volkswagen has been selling to a stable enthusiasts’ community in India and performance variants tested throughout the world.
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