Volkswagen Golf due restyle and infotainment overhaul in 2023

The eighth-generation Volkswagen Golf is owed for an important mid-life facelift that volition bring refreshed styling and heavy overhauled infotainment. 

The ‘Mk8.5’ Golf was spotted investigating connected nationalist roads astir Germany astir wholly without camouflage successful the last stages of its development. The existent Mk8 Golf is lone disposable to bid from stock.

Spotted successful what looks to beryllium mid-rung Style trim, the prototype has a restyled, deeper beforehand bumper, caller headlights and a somewhat reshaped rear extremity with wider exhaust graphics and restyled brake lights.

More significantly, photos of the compartment uncover that the Golf volition travel its newer, electrical siblings successful gaining a larger, 15.0in touchscreen, which volition big an evolved mentation of Volkswagen’s MIB3 infotainment strategy that has been re-engineered with a absorption connected improved inferior and functionality.

This facelift – similar that precocious rolled retired to the Volkswagen ID 3 – volition besides nary uncertainty look to code issues surrounding prime and user-friendliness, bringing a caller direct-access barroom for halfway functions specified arsenic location surface configurations, and relocating the main clime controls to a interaction sheet permanently positioned astatine the bottommost of the screen. 

The Mk8.5 Golf volition different mostly travel the existent car inside, with soft-touch materials featuring connected the dashboard and apical of the beforehand doorway sills, but caller trim pieces connected the steering instrumentality are among the tweaks. 

The existent Golf is priced from £26,565 successful basal Life trim but the Mk8.5 expected to adhd a premium to that. 

The refreshed Golf volition spell connected merchantability astatine astir the aforesaid clip arsenic the likewise upgraded Touareg, arsenic good arsenic the new-generation Passat and Tiguan, arsenic Volkswagen seeks to prolong the entreaty of its ICE car line-up successful the run-up to going all-electrified by 2030. 

Autocar has approached Volkswagen for further details connected what to expect from the caller Golf.