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  • 27-02-2007 7:17pm
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    E92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭


    When I saw this at first I thought that I was seeing things, but I looked at it again, and I realised its true. http://www.whatcar.com/news-article.aspx?NA=224307

    What I'm particularly fascinated is why oh why would VW bring out the estate version when the hatch is being replaced next year?
    Surely it would have made more sense to wait another 6-12 months and bring out the estate version then(which would be based on the new version(MK6))?


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    $Leon$
    Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭$Leon$


    They should really badge it the Jetta estate. Makes more sense. They estate is more closely related to the saloon jetta than hatchback golf.
    It just looks like a passat estate


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    overdriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,173 ✭✭✭overdriver


    The Golf is a bigger seller, maybe? A Golf estate might be more attractive to Mrs Suburbia than a Jetta Estate.


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,439 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Estates are so 90's. Mini MPV's are where it's at. A new Touran with a more clever seating system and maybe a spare wheel would have been a better use of their time.


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    bazz26
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    The MkIII Golf estate still sold along side the MkIV Golf hatch for at least 12 months. The same can be said for the MkIV Golf estate, they were still sold until 2005 when the Golf Plus was supposed to do away with the need for a Golf estate. Didn't quite work out that way.


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    FX Meister
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    It is being badged as a Jetta in the US


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,439 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    There was a Golf mk4 and Bora estate, just different headlights

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    VW%20Golf%20Variant%20BiFuel.jpg


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    FX Meister
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    It's not just the headlights that are different. It's the whole front end.


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    galwaytt
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    I can sum it up in one word why they needed it: Reps.

    Esp on the continent, all manner of people buy estates as co cars. Huge market, not going to go away. I was one, and I had a Golf Plus, but it's no substitute...........the floor in the Plus is useless.....

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    Mahatma coat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Mahatma coat


    to answer your initial question youngfella

    VW are releasing an estate version at the tail end of their production run as it gives them something to do with all the leftover MK V golf bits as soon as they start making the MK VI, lots of car companies do similar kinds a things


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