The seventh-generation Volkswagen Golf (presuming you don't consider the current one to be a 5.1) will go on sale in Europe in November next year, according to industry publication Automobilwoche, which spoke to a person close to VW's chief executive.
The Golf 7 will be the first VW-badged model to be based on the new cost-saving modular transverse architecture, known by its German abbreviation "MQB" that will eventually be used to build some 3-million vehicles group-wide per year.
The company is expecting savings in the double-digit percentage range thanks to a production process that differs from the previous vehicle platforms, which only offer synergies across brands using the same underpinnings rather than synergies across both brands and models.
Whether these savings will be directly passed onto the consumer remains to be seen, although we'd be surprised if the final product actually became cheaper, given its positioning as a semi-premium offering.
The very first vehicle to use MQB-based modularity will be the all-new Audi A3, which is due out around the middle of next year.
-IOL & Reuters.