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Here’s why I can’t wait to drive Volkswagen’s first electric GTI
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(Image credit: Volkswagen)
(Image credit: Volkswagen)
It would be fair to say we’re yet to fully see what a small, fun electric car will look like. Yes, there’s theAbarth 500eand theMini Cooper SE, but what about the battery-powered offspring of arguably the greatest hot hatch of the lot? I’m talking about an electric Golf GTI.
Before we get too carried away, this isn’t technically an electric Golf GTI. Volkswagen’s first electric GTI car will be a tuned up version of the upcomingID.2, the company’s small new EV hatchback. The company revealeda fantastic-looking conceptlast year, and now it has shared a few more tantalising details about how it’ll drive.
(Image credit: Volkswagen)
(Image credit: Volkswagen)
“GTI is alive and we’ll keep it alive in the future,” Grünitz said, adding: “The GTI badge is about passion, and when we started looking at ideas for an electric GTI, we knew it’s about more than just power.”
(Image credit: Volkswagen)
(Image credit: Volkswagen)
Admitting how easy it is to make a super-powerful EV – and how that might not be the correct approach for a battery-powered GTI – Grünitz continued: “With an electric car, adding a lot of power is really easy, but do we need 300bhp or 350bhp? With a GTI, what’s more important than power is drivability. It will be a real go-kart. I’ve driven a prototype and it’s really amazing.”
The go-kart reference caught my attention. For a couple of decades now, Mini has basically owned the “our car drives like a go-kart” marketing message, and the latest electric Cooper SE continues that trend. But now it sounds like it’s Volkswagen’s turn, and if a car that looks like the ID.2 GTI concept drives even remotely like a kart, I’m all-in.
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