{"id":393682,"date":"2020-04-29T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T12:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=393682"},"modified":"2020-04-29T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T12:35:38","slug":"new-golf-gti-tcr-pricing-for-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/393682\/new-golf-gti-tcr-pricing-for-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"New Golf GTI TCR pricing for South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new Golf GTI TCR will be available to order from Volkswagen dealers in South Africa as of May 2020, with pricing announced on Wednesday (29 April).<\/p>\n

It is the final swansong of the Golf 7 range which has sold 40,128 units in South Africa since first launching in 2013. Of the total Golf sales, 13,230 (33%) of those were the GTI derivative, which makes South Africa one of the top 10 markets worldwide for the Golf GTI.<\/p>\n

The 2.0 TSI Golf GTI TCR 213kW DSG is priced at R669,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The car is distinguished by the standard black 19-inch Reifnitz alloy wheels, perforated disk brakes, matte black exterior mirror caps, sill extensions, front splitter, TCR roof spoiler and a diffuser at the rear.<\/p>\n

In the interior, it boasts Alcantara sport seats with GTI TCR detailing in a new fabric design as well as floor mats with black and red stitching. Additional interior features include climatronic air-conditioning and red ambient light strips and a sports steering wheel.<\/p>\n

It also features standard technology such as Dynamic Chassis Control including driving profile selection, Active Info Display, Parallel Park Assist and LED headlights.<\/p>\n

Customers can choose between the following colours; Pure White, Tornado Red and Pure Grey.<\/p>\n

The Golf GTI TCR, with 6-speed DSG, reaches 100 km\/h in 5.6 seconds. The standard Vmax increases the maximum speed from 250 km\/h to 264 km\/h. The torque is 380Nm at 1,950 \u2013 5,300 r\/min.<\/p>\n

The vehicle comes standard with a 3 year\/120,000km warranty, 5 year\/ 90,000km Volkswagen Service Plan and a 12-year anti-corrosion warranty.<\/p>\n

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The new Golf GTI TCR will be available to order from Volkswagen dealers in South Africa as of May 2020, with pricing announced on Wednesday (29 April).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":393704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26,6636],"class_list":["post-393682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline","tag-volkswagen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393682"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393738,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393682\/revisions\/393738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}