Hatchback · 2023 · EU
Volkswagen Golf GTI (2023)
The benchmark hot hatch. A slightly grown-up Golf with a proper limited-slip front diff, adaptive dampers on the option list and enough power to make a back road feel like an event.
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Specifications
Manufacturer-published figures for the EU market, model year 2023, built in Germany. Values that are not published are omitted rather than estimated.
Engine & performance
- Engine
- 2.0 TSI turbo petrol
- Displacement
- 1,984 cc
- Cylinders
- 4
- Aspiration
- turbo
- Power
- 245 hp180 kW
- Torque
- 370 Nm
- Redline
- 6,500 rpm
- 0-100 km/h
- 6.3 s
- Top speed
- 250 km/h
- Power-to-weight
- 167.6 hp/t
- Transmission
- Dual-clutch · 7 gears
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
Dimensions & practicality
- Length
- 4,287 mm
- Width
- 1,789 mm
- Height
- 1,456 mm
- Wheelbase
- 2,620 mm
- Kerb weight
- 1,462 kg
- Ground clearance
- 133 mm
- Body style
- Hatchback
- Seats
- 5
- Doors
- 5
- Boot / cargo
- 374 L
- Towing
- 1,600 kg
- Payload
- 545 kg
Efficiency & emissions
- Combined economy
- 7.1 L/100 km
- CO2
- 162 g/kmWLTP, combined
- Fuel
- Petrol
Safety & market
- Crash rating
- Euro NCAP · 5 starstested 2019
- Model year
- 2023
- Generation
- Mk8
- Market
- EU
- Built in
- Germany
- Launch price
- €44,850€44,850 at the fixed reference rate
Character
What drivers said
The 1 most recent rating. Anonymous display names come from a one-way digest, not an account.
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- Perf. 3/5
- Utility 4/5
- Rel. 4/5