Volkswagen plans to bring the new Golf GTD to the United States along with the other models of the seventh-generation Golf, after all, says a report from Autonews. The GTD will be the brand’s first performance-oriented diesel car ever sold in the United States.
While the Golf and the Golf GTI will launch stateside next year next year as 2015 models, the Golf GTD will arrive in 2015 as a 2016 model, according to Andreas Valbuena, product manager for the VW Golf. The German automaker's exec estimates the Golf GTD will have a starting price of around $27,000 (€20,750).
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