Volkswagen has teased electrical variations of its beloved GTI efficiency vary for years now. The tiny ID.GTI idea from 2023 gave us our first actual style of a efficiency EV, whereas the corporate only in the near past introduced an ID.3 GTI for Europe subsequent yr. An electrical Golf GTI can also be on the docket, and new particulars have us much more excited for the upcoming electrical scorching hatch.

In an interview with AutoExpress, Volkswagen CEO Thomas Schäfer mentioned that the brand new Golf GTI EV shall be right here earlier than the top of the last decade—and it will likely be a “monster.”

Volkswagen ID.GTI Idea

“On the finish of the last decade, we are going to deliver an electrical Golf [GTI], and that shall be a monster automobile,” mentioned Schäfer. “I am very pleased with the progress. It is cool. You may make it thrilling, it must be thrilling, it must be genuine. If we deliver a GTI, it must be a [true] GTI.”

However that is not all. Schäfer additionally confirmed the arrival of a Golf R EV, which was beforehand rumored however by no means outright confirmed. Whereas the electrical Golf R will go for an all-wheel-drive setup, the electrical Golf GTI will keep its signature front-wheel-drive configuration with electrical motors powering the entrance axle completely.

Each the electrical GTI and Golf R fashions will journey on Volkswagen Group’s new Scalable Programs Platform (SSP). The SSP shall be used extensively all through the VW Group portfolio, in each model from Skoda, to Lamborghini, to Volkswagen. That scalable platform may be damaged down by dimension and worth relying on the automobile, and makes use of know-how that Schäfer dubs “mind-blowing.”

Volkswagen ID. GTI Idea

“We have pushed a number of prototypes on the brand new setup, and it is mind-blowing,” he says. “What concerning the sound? What concerning the complete really feel, the dealing with, and so forth. It may be completed.”

The electrical Golf GTI will not present up for an additional 5 years, whereas the electrical Golf R seemingly will not arrive till after that. The primary EV in VW’s GTI portfolio shall be based mostly on the ID.2 and completely for Europe. Primarily, a manufacturing model of the ID.GTI idea we noticed two years in the past. The ID.3 GTI, in the meantime, may even present up someday subsequent yr in Europe.